Gymnogeophagus terrapurpura “rio San Juan”

[C. Breeze]

Little 30 second clip of one of these little guys I’ve got in a “community fry tank”

 

[The Masked Shadow]

 

[C. Breeze]

more nice fresh pulled fry from this AM. Ready to go settle down in glass for a couple weeks.

 

[C. Breeze]

Breeders… caught a couple to take pics of this morning

 

[newworld]

looks like a meridionalis type?

 

[Rocksor]

looks like a meridionalis type?

Yes and no according to this

A new species of <i>Gymnogeophagus</i> Miranda Ribeiro from Uruguay (Teleostei: Cichliformes)

ABSTRACT We describe a new species of a substrate-brooding Gymnogeophagus , based on coloration...

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Same unofficial group "...substrate brooding species group is known informally as the "G. rhabdotus species group"...." but

"This species has been previously identified as G. rhabdotus (Stawikowski, 1983), provisionally identified as "G. rhabdotus" (Yafe et al., 2002) or misidentified as G. meridionalis (Reis et al., 1992: 268, fig. 4)."

 

[C. Breeze]

Yes and no according to this

A new species of <i>Gymnogeophagus</i> Miranda Ribeiro from Uruguay (Teleostei: Cichliformes)

ABSTRACT We describe a new species of a substrate-brooding Gymnogeophagus , based on coloration...

www.scielo.br

Same unofficial group "...substrate brooding species group is known informally as the "G. rhabdotus species group"...." but

"This species has been previously identified as G. rhabdotus (Stawikowski, 1983), provisionally identified as "G. rhabdotus" (Yafe et al., 2002) or misidentified as G. meridionalis (Reis et al., 1992: 268, fig. 4)."

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[C. Breeze]

Rhabdotus complex of substrate spawnera. Which is like- rhabdotus, these, sp Catalan, sp batovi blue, sp del norte- but these have been placed into there own species “terapurpura” in 2016 which also includes sp del norte I believe.

[Ichthyology • 2016] <i>Gymnogeophagus terrapurpura</i> • A New Species of <i>Gymnogeophagus <small></i><small>Miranda Ribeiro</small> (Teleostei: Cichliformes)</small> from Uruguay

Gymnogeophagus terrapurpura Loureiro, Zarucki, Malabarba & González-Bergonzoni, 2016 DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20150082 A ...

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[C. Breeze]

here are some of the F2s. These are fish from 3-4 different spawns from last summer. The oldest males are really coming on and even the younger and less dominant fish are striking. Keep in mind the oldest fish shown here was born in may. These fish have been outside there whole lives. This tank has seen a low water temperature of 48 so far this year but we are back in a warm weather trend at it was 70 this morning. They’ll get down in the 50s for weeks at a time warm up a little get cold again warm up a little for the next 4 months.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

In your experience does colder water decrease their color and activity?