Yes, you are completely right, – but I think that is also what we at least aim to do – to write the origin of the fish and if this is an import, then this will be mentioned, and if you get the fish from private, then this is mentioned too.
I looked into Horst Linkes new book just now, – I have to say, I still think the one I showed at the photo in the beginning of this thread looks so much similar to the one on page 455 if you are so lucky to have to the book, – if not, this is a photo of a rubrimontis. Horst Linke writes that theres one characteristic with rubrimontis, and thats a ‘large dark spot at the base of the caudal fin’ …. I actually think I am seeing that in the photo of mine.. perhaps.. ?
BUT … I am also thinking now that since I got these 6 fish (I lost one ) – the experience with them has been ‘strange’. First I separated what I thought was 2 pairs – with absolutely no effect. The fishes showed no interest in each other at all. For some months I left it like that. Then I gave up and put them all together in a larger tank, thinking they had to grow. There was always one male with very clear dominant colours, but totally inactive – always just under a root.
Then after a year – where basicly I just fed them – another male started to show colours more, and looked more interested in one of the females, – so I cought these out. And they produced the offspring in a day.
I then took the other male and female and separated into a tank – to this day they don’t show any interest in each other, same story. The two males are sort of looking the same, – however one of them was always larger and more clear in colour.
And then I am just thinking, – perhaps, as we know, – it could happen that fish caught from two or more small localities are just put into one bag and exportet as such, – and perhaps when I bought mine, there were more ‘species’ or variants, and perhaps this can explain the stage behaviour ? The non interest in spawning behaviour.
And I also think, that looking at Horst Linkes descriptions, – there are so many variants within this group of parosphromenus – tweediei/rubrimontis – that it may end up being impossible to say more than it does certainly belong in this group, but which excatly might be impossible to say ever.
I still think, Steff, that yours look different from mine, the red band seems much more substantian all the way around, and the black band at the end of the caudal broader – and even if I could get my fish to flash, I doubt they would ever show that the same way. I still haven’t really seen them flash seriously though.
But you are also right in that it could also be interesting to hear how it went with the other fish that was sold from this import.