Help me ID!!! Gan's Apisto again

[BaBiBuTa]

very busy hor, you all must help us identify apistos, casue Gan cannot differentiate.

Bought last friday
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4da31b3127ccebc31b6ccede10000001610

this was bought 3 weeks ago from gan
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4da31b3127ccebc31cfff2c460000001610

[A.Rashid]

bro cannot really tell lah your fish play hide and seek with you... heheheh
best if can get full pix of him...

[BaBiBuTa]

the top 1 leh? the 3 weeks 1 always dun let me take pic, but then its mouth realise abit of purple, and the body and tail turning yellow, below the eye also have 1 black stripe like wilhemi, but dunno whetherits a pertensis or wilhemi.

[A.Rashid]

if what you say... then should be wilhelmi...the dorsal fin from the pix also doesnt look like pertensis...

[BaBiBuTa]

is this a better pic to judge? but now the black line down the eye cannot see, but it is there. so is this a pertensis or wilhemi?

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4da37b3127ccebcb0add05f8c0000001610

[francis]

looks like wilhelmi.better do a anti bacterial treatment for your apisto soon:)Those black markin are caused by them man.

[BaBiBuTa]

u mean those black markings aren't antural?, ok will do it soon, which brand do u recomend? Melafix?

[BaBiBuTa]

update of my apisto. this 1 is the 1 in the 1st pic.
now grow big liao i can see its lyretail but still cannot ID, dunno whether is Gibbceps or A.Bit
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4da05b3127ccebd2c56cd26280000001610

[elimmel]

it's a gibbicep.. have one of these too.. very active and aggressive

[BaBiBuTa]

thanks for iding. ya very agressive, keep chasing my male/female a.pertensis, asserting itself as Alpha male

[mervin]

Originally posted by BaBiBuTa
thanks for iding. ya very agressive, keep chasing my male/female a.pertensis, asserting itself as Alpha male

that is y it is colouring up very nicely !!!'
:woot:

[BaBiBuTa]

yup, colouring up very well, somemore very small. but then,will gibbceps lose that balck line across the body after in growup??? cause i can see that the gibbceps in petfrd profiles have no black line across the body.

[mervin]

not really. depending on its mood....sometimes will show sometimes not.

[Hobbit6003]

looks like wilhelmi.better do a anti bacterial treatment for your apisto soon:)Those black markin are caused by them man.

Hi guys,

Those black rounded markings that you see, especially on wild cuaght fishes, are encapsulated trematodal (worm) lesion call metacercaria.

They are trematode larvae that attached itself to the skin of the fish, and after a while gets ecapsulated as the tissues around it proliferated to encircle them. It is the body's response to prevent any spread.

Well, these larvae are going through their life cycle, with the fishes as one of the intermediate host. The final host is a bird. Without a final host in sight, the larvae will go into a dormant state within the lesion.

Metacercaria is usually harmless, and there's not much cure for them, as anthelminthic medication does not get to them easily with the tissue encapsulation. The only way, as I did with my altum, is to remove them manually.

For such a small fish, I'd suggest leaving it alone lor.

Cheers,

Kenny