After Otto Gartner, an Austrian who collected fish in Africa with A.C.Radda.

Radda A.C. 1980.

Die Rivulinen des südlichen Kongo (Brazzaville) 3, Revision des Aphyosemion ogoense Komplexes.

Aquaria 27: p 197-198, figure 7.

5.5 cm

• D = 10-11, A = 14-15, ll = 29-32 (Radda & Pürzl 1987)
• D = 13-14, A = 14-15, ll = 29-30 (A.striatum sangmelinense studied by Wildekamp 1976 in the Musée de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren, Belgium)
• D = 13-14, A = 14-15, ll = 29-30 (A.(striatum) ogoense studied by Wildekamp 1976)

• n = 20, A = 38 (Scheel 1981).
• n = 21-22, A = 28 (Scheel 1990) Their is a variance between different populations.

Mesoaphyosemion

ogoense

• Aphyosemion lujae (non Boulenger 1901) La Corte 1961
• Aphyosemion striatum (non Boulenger 1911) Lambert & Géry 1968
• Aphyosemion striatum sangmelinense (non Ahl 1928) Wildekamp 1976 (in part)
• Aphyosemion ogoense Lambert 1976
• Aphyosemion ottogartneri Radda & Pürzl 1987

• Carrefour - Congo
• Lutete - southern Congo
• Makola - 25 km E Madingou (Bordat 1989)
• Mounyondzi - Congo
• JH 78 / 170 - Kindamba, Congo
• JH 78 / 171
• JH 78 / 172
• JH 78 / 173
• JH 78 / 174

Lefini, Pool Province, southern Congo.

The upper reaches of the Bouenza, Djoue & Lefini Rivers on the Bembe plateau, southern Congo.

Small streams & brooks in humid savannah.

Known to have been in captive circulation since 1961 when Pierre Brichard exported them from Zaire (then Belgian Congo) to the USA. This shipment went under the name Aphyosemion lujae. In 1976 Lambert had information that they had been collected around Lutete. Also in 1976 Lambert & Wildekamp studied the identification of the species & concluded they belonged to ogoense rather than the elegans group.

I maintained the Lutete population in the early '80's & found them easy to breed in typical mop spawning fashion. Eggs were removed daily & took 14-21 days of water incubation. Growth rate is quite fast & sexual maturity is attained around 5 months.

Colin Kilgour in BKA newsletter No. 382, July 1997 wrote an article. Pair set up in 75% rain & 25% demineralised water, pH 6 - 6·5, conductivity 40µs, water temperature 76-77°F. A water change of 20% carried out each week. Eggs were water stored at 76°F & started to hatch in 16 days. Newly hatched brine shrimp was the first food.

A colour photo appears in the Pet Library series 'Enjoy Your Killifish' page 3 titled A.striatum. This is the ottogartneri distributed in the USA as A.lujae.