Thanks Stan. I'm glad they are finally coming around. They are an interesting fish for sure. They go through a lot of pattern changes as you can see from the pics. While different individual fish, they look drastically different as well. From my observations, the fish in the first picture is a dominant individual. There are two that show the barring like that. The others only typically show the single lateral black spot. Still trying to distinguish males from females...
It will be interesting to see if they become a completely different species. There are many visual differences. They are only found in the Honduras and specifically Rio Jutiapa. Not sure if they were so isolated from robertsoni else where that they evolved differently.
Yeah I wish there was more information on them. I have no idea of the lineage of my fish however I would imagine they must have a relatively low F# as you simply do not see this strain throughout the hobby very often.
I agree. I hope you keep us updated on them, they are very cool.
They are doing great. Still not interested in pellets but eating flake food. While I would rather simply just feed pellets, if they prefer flake then I suppose I'll continue feeding it. All my others prefer pellets as that is what I have always fed...
They’ll come around eventually.
You wouldn't happen to have/know any biotope info in regards to Rio Jutiapa would you? From what little I could find it is a river... hah.
Off the top of my head I think cutteri, p. astyanax aeneus, astyanax fascaitus..and Poecilia species which I think mexicana. Also x. mayae is found in the Honduras so that is possible. I would have to do a bit of research.
As of now my 220gal is centered around the Upper Usumacinta Basin in Guatemala, more specifically Lachua Lake.
