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Recent content by Tom C

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    Apistos with spiky fins

    My picture shows one of our most recent Apistogramma cf. personata discoveries, from a location we call Q4 in Colombia. (There are many other locations where similar forms could be found, here are some of them: (LINK))
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    Apistos with spiky fins

    Is this the fulfillment of your wishes?
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    D39

    The reason I asked is that when we collected the Morse Code Tetra in the Rio Putumayo drainage (LINK), which is far away from the Rio Nanay, the fisherman guiding us told us that this species could only be found there, and in a location much further east. When I saw your statement that the...
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    D39

    Do you know that they are found in the Rio Nanay?
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    Colour form of nijjensi

    The "...confirmed wild caught with a location of Tahuayo River" makes me wonder...- Beyond that, I have no indication for either one or the other, so I refrain from speculation.
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    Colour form of nijjensi

    I don't remember having seen an A. nijsseni exactly like your new male.... I collected in the Rio Tahuayo in 2011 (LINK). Didn't find any A. nijsseni there, and I have never heard of any A. nijsseni been found in the Rio Tahuayo by local fishermen. However: There are small streams very close...
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    Need a little help understanding this...

    We collected A. viejita at the type locality, in January 2017: Before that time it was very difficult to collect them, as the area was controlled by the FARC guerrillas. It is easy to get to this area, but of course you'll have to know where to go, invest time and money to get there, and...
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    New article! Apistogramma sp. "D10"

    One of my females A sp. "D10": No pattern in the posterior part of the dorsal fin, no pattern in the caudal fin. Sorry, but as Frank told you: you have only showed us photos of males.
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    These wild fish are not A. cacatuoides, or are they? Please help.

    In one of my expeditions in 2011, we visited the Río Itaya drainage (again): From the road Iquitos-Nauta we had a looong and hot walk It was extremely hot, and the vultures were watching us, hoping for a meal: We tried our nets here: pH: 6.02 . Conductivity: 29 µS/cm ...
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    A. macmasteri Biotope Info

    I don't have any. But in the dry season most of the streams look like this; and I don't think you'll need underwater photos to see what it looks like beneath the surface. I keep Nannostomus in most of my tanks. I have 11 different locations of N. marginatus, never any problems. I also keep...
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    A. macmasteri Biotope Info

    We collected many Apistogramma within the A. macmasteri-complex in the Rio Meta drainage of the llanos in Colombia. One species was found almost everywhere; Copella eigenmanni ( = Copella metae): In small shallow streams: In the restwater inside "palm oases": and in the small lakes /...
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    How does behavior or a. ladislao compare to a. wolli ?

    I would just put all in the 29... I import all my fishes directly from South America, and of course I will have more than one pair of each species, just in case. So I always throw all the fishes of the same species and location in the same tank, when I receive the shipment. In my most recent...
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    How does behavior or a. ladislao compare to a. wolli ?

    You're right, I have kept A. wolli, and I keep a large group of A. sp. Ladislao now. I received 2 wild pairs, and because of lack of space (as always:)), I put them all in the same (heavily planted) tank. After a couple of days only one pair swam in the front of the tank, the other pair was only...
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    New tank setup for Apistos Shaly (rare)

    We found this species in October 2012. Upper Rio Napo drainage in Peru, close to the border to Ecuador. A 10 meter wide shallow stream with a water depth of 10 - 50cm (this was at the end of the dry season). Black-ish water; pH: 5.45 Conductivity: 8 microSiemens/cm Temperature: 23.8°C The...
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    Apisto pigmentation

    Yes, I have seen A. sp. "Abacaxis" with black spots. Interestingly in that case the offspring never got it, although they stayed with their spotted parents for quite a long time.
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