I arrived yesterday

[WildCAught]

Nice looking fish, I would call them Red Tigers with collection location, every stream has a different vairent. That may be the most western distribution motoguense has ever been caught. We caught some in the Rio Chuloteca south of Teguesegalpa that had orange females and yellow males, What was surprising was P fredrickstalli occupied the same river. Look at the gill covers on the smaller fish, any spots and it's a male. Keep them divided so she does kill him, I bred all my Parachromis through a eggcrate divider with no problem.
That fish would be a nice addition to the hobby. Ken

Thanks Ken. The males on these were a yellow with slightly orange tinge on tails.

The smaller Mota is being kept in a different location with some HRP and Thoricthys Sp.

The advice for breeding is right on. I will have to be very careful since they are the only two in the hobby right now.

So As it stands right now this is the Salvadorean Red Tiger Motaguense "La Bruja"

 

[WildCAught]

Bad ass fish man!

Thanks!

 

[lostnight]

So As it stands right now this is the Salvadorean Red Tiger Motaguense "La Bruja"

That seems like the best, most logical name, it gets my vote. Very pretty fish.

 

[tydus]

Nice name, it seems legit. Hope the lil guy turns out to be a male, so that you can breed them, because I want some!

 

[cepon3]

they look alot like the rtms i used to keep as for your pictures not showing dull due to high iso maybe this will help? b4 and after

 

[killerfish]

Very nice looking but to me just looks like a RTM with alot of yellow as others have probably pointed out color of a fish will varie from location to location in the wild

 

[lostnight]

The RTM is red...
The gold is yellow... and the fish I collected is right in between.
members please post either gold or red if you own them for comparison. Specially females, the males pictured are dead and were much more colorful when alive... so not a great indicator of color.
Here is my Male Red Tiger for reference.

Ok, here is one of my young female Rio Copan RTMs. Please diregard the stupid castle, she likes hiding in there. It came with the aquarium I bought used in June. I plan to replace the castle with rocks from the river whenever I get a chance.

 

[lostnight]

Just to compare

 

[superman818]

Here's my two cents. I think it's a Red Tiger Mota with much more yellow. If you hadn't caught it in the wild I would have figured it to be a hybrid of a Red Tiger and a Loiselli. Great haul of fish. I'm jealous.

 

[Ruck Fules]

Javier, welcome back buddy. Check out my ten inch female. This is the female that was paired up with the big male I bought from you last year.