Re: [Killietalk] lampeyes

["lee Van Hyfte" <littleleeper23 at hotmail_com>]

Hello All,

I have most often seen Aply. normani at the pet shops.   Oddly enough I see 
them at PETCO.  They will on occasion bring in a poropanchax luxophthalmus 
type.

I must warn against presuming these are LUX.  Taxonomists have a hell of a 
time telling the individual species apart.   3 species I have kept were 
nearly identical in appearances.   Scheeli, Luxophthalmus, and 
stigmatopygus.  (only verifiable via their collection points!!!) Put them in 
a tank together and you would be hard pressed to separate out the males let 
alone the females.  Hannerzi is supposed to have a fair bit of patterning in 
the fins. Which may be the only distinguishing characteristic.  I have only 
seen a couple of different locations of the LUX types.  So it would be 
difficult to assume that HAN is the only sp./subsp. that maintains a pattern 
in the fins.

Congopanchax brichardi and myersi both have nearly identical appearances 
too.  Although at 1 inch it is unlikely these would be the species.  Both 
are not only very small but also rare and difficult to even keep alive.

If it is a LUX type you should see to very distinct lines of electric blue 
or blue green.  One running along the length of the body just below the 
dorsal surface and the other running right along the ventral surface as I 
recall stopping just short of the abdomen itself.

God Bless, Lee Van hyfte <><

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