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Unfortunately, its true. I bet we all wish that the vendors/farms out there would love our fish as much as we do.
This is actually something that I use to weed out potential vendors. If their attitude re: Viejita/Macmasteri is more of a "well this is what the farm sold them to me as, so...
I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Lamboj while he was here for a recent club event and he did say that there were some pretty significant changes coming for Pelvicachromis. The only detail that be mentioned though (understandably) is that a number of the localities of Pv. taeniatus will...
If we have found true Viejita, isn't it all for naught if we can't convince the farms to stop calling their Mac strains Viejita, Viejita Gold, Viejita Red Neck, etc?
Ha! My daughter loves Twanda... we end up spending 4 or 5 minutes just standing in the entryway watching her. People think we are wierd. ;P HoT is one of my favorite LFS's... unfortunately one of few left in the area. If you are making the drive again sometime soon, you should check out Go...
All are viable strategies... it all depends on the species you are breeding. Each have different levels of aggression. some like having several females available, while some form a strong pair bond. Thats one of the things that makes apistos so fun... each species is a new challenge to learn!
The Watts-per-gallon "rule" should be looked at as no more than a very rough guideline to get in the ballpark with. As far as I understand it, WPG tends to assume light spread evenly across the tank. Figuring out whether you are low, medium, or high light depends on so many variables like...