Wild Amatitlania siquia ( convicts )

joel · Aug 17, 2014

My pair of wild Amatitlania siquia
" Rio Tempisque" I picked up from TUIC at K2. They are the most beautiful cons I have ever kept.

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ehh · Aug 17, 2014

Those are nice but I'm confused. I thought convicts were amatitlania nigrofasciata. Two different species with the same common name?

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festaedan · Aug 17, 2014

Awesome fish man, I have a wild caught pair of tempisque siquias I got from rapps guarding their 3rd spawn

jonclark96 · Aug 18, 2014

ehh said:
Those are nice but I'm confused. I thought convicts were amatitlania nigrofasciata. Two different species with the same common name?

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There are actually 4 different species in the convict complex - nigrofaciatus, kanna, siquia, and coatepeque.

ehh · Aug 18, 2014

jonclark96 said:
There are actually 4 different species in the convict complex - nigrofaciatus, kanna, siquia, and coatepeque.

Wow I don't know that. That's crazy, 4 different species names but one common name.

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joel · Aug 18, 2014

festaedan said:
Awesome fish man, I have a wild caught pair of tempisque siquias I got from rapps guarding their 3rd spawn

Thank you. Hopefully this pair will spawn. Jonclark96 thanks for clarification. After ehh's post I thought I may have been misinformed about common name.

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jonclark96 · Aug 18, 2014

The complex was split into the four species a few years ago. Some recognize the separate species, some don't. I've kept all four, and there are subtle difference between them all.


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