Pseudohemiodon Apithanos breeding project

[Jacqueline]

I am a proud owner of 6 Pseudohemiodon Apithanos :d I started out with 4 females, two of them are proven females and have produced fry. https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/...odon+apithanos

But I needed to find some males. And yesterday I finally collected some which were ordered specially :-)

Here are my females:

Proven female, 1





Proven female, 2



Female 3





Youngest female, 4



The males:

Male 1





Male 2






I tried to stick two pictures together to show the difference in headshape.
First combi is from male 1 and female 1



Combi 2 is from male 2 with female 3



I know it's difficult but you can see the difference in headshape of a proven female and the new male. Imagine a triangle from tip of the nose to the end of the head (beginning of pectorial fins). male have a slightly elongated headshape.

Now all I have to do is prove this by spawning lot's of baby's :YMDAYDREAM: :d :d

[fisker]

Are you quiet sure ?


A friend told to me, that the different head shapes are a distinguishing feature between "real" Apithanos and Apithanos "marbled"

In that case, your "males" would be real Apithanos

[fisker]

Let`s get some "marbled"-pics

[Jacqueline]

I don't really understand what you are trying to say. Are you referring to my females not being Apithanos? Because they are

[doc]

Hi Jacqueline,
Congratulation - nice apithanos! The males are most of the time black, smaller than the females and the head are sharp triangels like yours.
I hope You can breed them - let me know!