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Recent content by Azur

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    Which Digital Thermometer?

    I've for the last few years used cheap indoor/outdoor thermometers, the kind with one sensor at the end of a long cable - something similar to this: http://www.brannan.co.uk/images/pl/13-420-3.jpg I was a bit worried that the metal tip of the sensor migth corrode, so I smeared silicone glue...
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    Bad news: the brazilian dams are go.

    OK, what follows is very much my personal opinion. Well, rant, really: I wish it was just stupidity, but it is malice and greed. The dams are multi-billion-dollar projects, and it is an official secret that brazilian politicians are skimming off the funds, the builders are of course making...
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    Bad news: the brazilian dams are go.

    I have some really bad news for everyone who's interested in fish from Xingu, Madeira, Tocantins... well, pretty much the entire interior amazon: the brazilian presidents pharaonic plans to dam & divert these rivers, the most species rich in the world, have been approved, and construction...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Yeah... No, I didn't miss it, it's just that in a freshly started tank it's certainly of less importance than drastically reducing the toxicity of nitrite. I routinely keep my hospital tanks at 3 ppt salinity, higher if the fish has open sores, to help the fish with its osmotic balance. You will...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Just a small correction - salt does not raise hardness. That's a common misunderstanding, but what salt raises is the conductivity, it does not affect pH or hardness at all. Your point still stands, as most waters of the amazon have both low hardness and low conductivity. That said, adding...
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    Got 'em all!

    But it probably soon will be. All the Barombi Mbo species effectively live on borrowed time. Being restricted to one small lake in an arid region with exploding human population isn't a recipe for long-term survival. 2007 saw three species of cichlid declared officially extinct (all...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    OK, let's walk through this. The tank has been running for a month, but with lightly salted water and a mature filter. Provided you've not added anything which kills filter bacteria *and* poisons test kit reagents that should mean it's not, after all :rolleyes: ammonia or nitrite, the by far...
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    Dwarf Pike

    Hard to tell without seeing the dorsal, but this strikes me as a pretty good match: http://www.geocities.com/napavalley/5491/proteuspage.html I wouldn't put too much weight on size at first spawn, many cichlids start spawning at a very young age, long before reaching adult size - Oreochromis...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    I think that's a truth with considerable modification - e.g. Apistogramma in nature often seem to hold very small territories among leaf litter - but regardless of that, a 380 liter tank is actually a big tank. A 380 liter tank is big enough for two breeding pairs of convict cichlids, or four...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    I'm sorry, but flukes take weeks to kill fish, and infected fish don't come down with symptoms over night. When events happen over night, smart money says it's a poisoning. Your fish are dropping like flies, and it is a freshly set-up aquarium: you are extremely likely to have water quality...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Sorry, I don't buy that they were suddenly just killed (and by Nannacara, no less). If that had been the case, you'd have first seen chasing, then you would have had your taeniatus hide behind pumps or plants or anything, probably close to the surface where the Nannacara wont follow, and showing...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Sounds like you're set. By the way, here's my dominant male, for comparison: Unfortunately I have no picture of my female, because, well, I disturbed them while breeding and she's no longer allowed to show herself - the male attacks instantly.
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    That'd be Anton Lamboj? Out of the taeniatus I've seen, I'd say two species: Nigerian colorless vs the rest. As for Hemichromis, I wish him the best of luck - a revision is certainly long overdue, and sorely needed.
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Like the others have said it's a taeniatus, but beyond that I'm increasingly skeptical one can at all identify taeniatus without knowing where they were caught. If even then - you even have a capture locality in Nigeria for your fish, yet they have the striated anal fin which is said to be...
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    Misplaced photo in taeniatus profile?

    OK, I believe you. FWIW, the differences I'm seeing are: Red streak on the cheek vs solid yellow. Presence vs absence of a black spot on the gill cover. Red dorsal trim to the caudal fin vs blue trim. Spots in caudal do not reach edge of fin vs spots in caudal reaches edge of fin. Possibly...
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