Some pictures of the guys. I've posted pictures before of'em. I'm not good with a camera (a crap one, at that), so don't expect POTM material here. I wish.
Female:
Male front, male Apisto back
Right side of tank, fairly heavy oak leaf litter. Alot of the fish spend lots of time in these leaves:
Female showing off:
It's so hard to capture these fish in a picture. If you ever come across a tank of these fish, watch them for a second. They turn their colours on and off like a light switch, and their bars on their back can be a dark jet black to a metallic blue, and then gone in a flash. Their eyes turn from a dullish orange to a flaming blood red. When they're dead red, these guys look extremely vicious. This is the best picture I could get of two of females flaring at each other:
The only focused part of one picture was the tail, and it shows off their overall colour very well. It's almost like a rainbow, so here's an idea of their beauty when they get settled in and show their real colours:
The way to sex these guys is by the dorsal fin. Males have no ocelli, while females can have between 1 and 4. The edging colour is determined by point of capture. Certain strains have a red edging, while others have yellow. Obviously, mine have yellow. These are from the Rio Tapajos. You can tell this strain apart from the rest because of the bar marking on their backs. These remain into maturity, while other strains do not.