Can You Help ID this Pencilfish?

[Fish Folk]

I’m working on breeding Apistogramma Cacatouides. I’ve set up a 20 gal. long, a trio of Apistos, and just added 12x Pencilfish from my LFS.

The LFS Manager doesn’t get Pencilfish in hardly ever, and I’m not certain he’s all that good at ID. I asked what his supplier claimed they were. “Coral Red Pencilfish.”

Nope. No way. I’m sure they’re not.

But can you help? Are these Beckford’s? Golden? Something else?

Male:

 

Female (?):

Group:

Sorry for all the live BBS in the water. Today was _that day_! 

Edited March 11, 2022 by Fish Folk

[Colu]

Possible golden pencil fish nannostomus beckfordi

[Patrick_G]

Alex Williamson recently posted a tidbit about Beckfords Pencilfish on the GSAS Facebook. Apparently at night the horizontal black stripes become more like a series of dots to better blend in with vegetation. He posted some pics if anyone wants to check it out. @Fish Folk, it might help with your identification. 

Edited March 11, 2022 by Patrick_G

[Biotope Biologist]

I agree with @Colu those look like goldens. Also Beckford and golden are synonymous as I think was also pointed out with the latin name in that post 🙂 coral reds are striking in person it’s interesting that the supplier was so wrong, but perhaps they too are not good with pencils.

[Fish Folk]

On 3/11/2022 at 10:51 AM, Patrick_G said:

Alex Williamson recently posted a tidbit about Beckfords Pencilfish on the GSAS Facebook. Apparently at night the horizontal black stripe become more like a series of dots to better blend in with vegetation. He posted some pic if anyone wants to check it out. @Fish Folk, it might help with your identification. 

Yes! I totally saw this last night! Can you link to that from GSAS?? 

[Patrick_G]

Here’s the link

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GSASAquaHobbyists/permalink/1069229033641000/

 

[Torrey]

On 3/11/2022 at 11:01 AM, Patrick_G said:

Here’s the link

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GSASAquaHobbyists/permalink/1069229033641000/

 

Nice!!!

Thank you!