Re: [Killietalk] lampeyes

[Sandy1238 at aol_com]

In a message dated 8/11/2007 7:56:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
radiata_5 at fuse_net writes:
 
HI, THEN FOR SURE YOU DON'T HAVE P. STIGMATOPYGUS. A. LUX. LUX. LOOKS A LOT  
LIKE THE FISH MENTIONED BUT DOES NOT HAVE THE SPOT. STILL, A NICE FISH.

I don't  see the black spot.
Al W.
---- Sandy1238 at aol_com wrote: 
>   
> In a message dated 8/9/2007 7:10:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,   
> radiata_5 at fuse_net writes:
> 
> Thanks a  lot for  your input.  I will check for the stripes.
> 
> Al  W.-
> ---  lee Van Hyfte <littleleeper23 at hotmail_com> wrote:  
> > 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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> 
> Hi All,
>  
> If you have Poro.  stigmatopygus you can see a black spot at the anal  
opening 
>  which the others don't have.
>  
> Sincerely,
>   
> Sandy
> 
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