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And it’s not an hrp?
That’s crazy, I honestly could see an “electric blue convict” being the next big morph.
Really good looking con, makes my female look dull, and she’s got a lot of blue.
 
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I bred him from the HRPs tuic had that weren't specified as being danlis. I was extremely surprised by the fact that he's for one that blue, and two the fact that he doesn't have any stripes.
He had a very strange "puberty", he started out a shiny/metallic light blue with a really weird almost mosaic striped pattern, then his fins turned black, then the rest of his cyanophores came in (he turned blue/green) and lost his stripes. He used to have a tiny nuchal hump too, even though he's like 2 inches.
Unmostfortunately for the aquarium trade however, after beating up 3 females he proved to me that his only goal in life is to eat food, so I finally gave him his own 30 gallon tub to grow.
 
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I believe the jury is still out on whether Honduran Red Point is actually a separate species, or just a location variant in the genus
(at least I haven't seen a scientific conclusion about it yet).
Amatitlania.
male above, female below back in 2015
 
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I believe Kevin said they found it's just a nigrofasciata locale, and I believe he was referencing the Bagley paper published in 2016
" Phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences from 318 individuals spanning the geographical ranges of all three currently recognized Amatitlania species strongly supported one major clade, with a relatively diverged subclade corresponding to A. kanna samples from eastern Costa Rica and Panama. Gene trees and networks revealed marked incongruences between phylogeographic structure and morpho-species taxonomy as a result of species-level polyphyly. Bayes factor comparisons of species delimitation models accounting for incomplete lineage sorting under the multispecies coalescent decisively supported the recognition of two distinct species within Amatitlania corresponding to Amatitlania nigrofasciata and A. kanna lineages. The only clearly genetically and morphologically diagnosable species was A. kanna. These results strongly suggest that incomplete lineage sorting provides the best explanation for the polyphyly of A. kanna, whereas the polyphyly of A. siquia is likely a result of an imperfect taxonomy. "
Either that paper or something else that hasn't been released publically.
 
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speaking as an hobbyist i can say with experience with many locales of convicts including hrps, i can say they are by far the most docile of siqua, nigrofasciatus, coatepeque (syn of nigrofasciatus?)l is that a deciding factor for species assignment of a species?, i just find it interesting that this fish is behaviorally different then the others..
 
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Unfortunately as many differences as I can see, apparently their DNA says otherwise, though that just makes it more amazing to see how diverse nigrofasciata is
 
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newworld said:
speaking as an hobbyist i can say with experience with many locales of convicts including hrps, i can say they are by far the most docile of siqua, nigrofasciatus, coatepeque (syn of nigrofasciatus?)l is that a deciding factor for species assignment of a species?, i just find it interesting that this fish is behaviorally different then the others..
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I too find it interesting that the behaviour of them are different than nigrofasciatus. I know that it is quite possible that they're just different locales of the convict.

I look at the breeding behavior as well while they breed in the same fashion. I think the HRP doesn't have the same egg count or success that a standard convict has. It may have to do with there environment in the wild. Perhaps there are more predators found with standard convicts than a HRP. Who knows

I have a pair of Rio Bagaces, they are taking longer to spawn than convicts. They go through the motion of courting. The male pushes the female around and back to her cave. He will stay away from her, then she will flirt with him. She will shoo him away, it's different. I have small female convicts in the tank as dithers, the biggest one tries to lure the male but he chases her away. He got no interest. I find this behaviour similar to HRP. If the option is one of their own then the preferred partner is one of their own kind.
 
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