My second spawn of yellow golds emerged from the coconut today. I never tended to the first spawn over christmas and just let nature take it's course. I have maybe two viable fish from that spawn.
I'm going to actually attempt to raise these for a while and wanted to see if anyone is interested. You can find a picture of one here:
http://www.apistogramma.com/cms/index.p ... ontent&tas k=view&id=133&Itemid=44</u>
The females carry recessive traits and will not produce healthy fry in a YG x YG situation.
My male is ~3.5inches mostly a yellow, I'm not sure I let him be gold. The dorsal and (lyretail) caudal fins are dominantly orange with black outlines, while the anal and pelvic fins are white/blue oddly. I'm told my fish may still develop the white body, proabaly won't. The second generation supposedly will have more red in the fins.
Cory
Yellow gold A. cacatuoides
The y/g males are breed to TR females. Y/g females supposedly look like neil's picture, but I don't have any that are old enough to show the coloring. The recessive color seems to effect males more dramatically rather than females, most apistogrammas are, more or less, standard shape/color. That's especially true if they drop their breeding colors.