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Collecting in the Rio Tapiche drainage

Tom C

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As October again approaches, and it soon is time for a trip to the Amazon again, I've published a report from one of the expeditions in 2009:
Collecting in the Rio Tapiche drainage

Warning: The report contains 250 photos, and takes some time to download.

Unfortunately the language is poor, but I hope you'll understand ....... if not; learn Norwegian :eek:, or just have a look at the pictures :biggrin:
 

Jholden

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I just started reading this article but I just have to say that A. sp. "Alto Tapiche"
has to be one of if not thee most amazing apisto I've ever seen. Just spectactular!
 

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Tom your English is excellent....And will be even better by the end of October after a month of "Oh nos" and "F------ hills".
Great report again mate.
Cant wait to get back there.
Just 6 weeks or so and my stint on the Iquitos neighbourhood watch begins again....
Mark.
 

bigbird

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wow, just shows you really how special all apistos are and that in the wild there must be millions of subspecies and types. It also makes it clear, what lengths the catchers go till they arrive in our aquarium store, if they are wild ones ? They travel so long. Well done microman and Tom...wow am very jealous. Love your photos and english is perfect. A pity we do not have apistos in Australia, however maybe we do up north but they have not yet been discovered.....cheers jk :cool:
 

Bilbo

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Another incredible journey you have taken us on.

I will probably never get to South America so this photo tour is the next best thing.
 

Jholden

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Those are some awsome looking A. agasizzi and such wide array of forms.. Reminds me of an article Mike Wise wrote or posted (or both) here about the characteristics of the bands on the caudal fin of different forms of agasizzi. Anyone have the link to that? I have it on my other PC but the motherboard recently died.
 

HaakonH

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Wonderful article, Tom! If I may add a few names:

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Bujurquina sp.

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Batrochoglanis sp.cf.raninus

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Hemiloricaria/Rineloricaria sp.

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Ancistrus sp.

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Bujurquina sp.

-Haakon
 

Tom C

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Thank you very much for the kind words from all of you!:)
Highly appreciated!

...your English is excellent....And will be even better by the end of October after a month of "Oh nos" and "F------ hills"...
I don't know if I want to learn to bawl "Oh NO" every time I see a small hill. According to my experiences, that habit is an unique phenomenon associated with exhausted and hungry Englishmen in the jungle...:biggrin:

... If I may add a few names:...
Thank you very much for the ID-help, Haakon!
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Tom C

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Small hills..... I thought they had moved the Andes into the Amazon basin just for the month i was there :)
He-he...That explains why the fishermen's "just a 20 minutes walk" took us 2 hours... :tongue:
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MonteSS

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Yes. Amazing story and pics.

I also would like to know how you keep the water cool enough and aerated to keep the fish alive.

..Bill
 

Julio Melgar

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Thanks for a great photographic tour Tom. And I see Mark has gotten that trasmitable disease that is going to the jungle, once you visit Amazonia you can't stop going back.

Take care and be safe,

Julio
 

Rolo

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Hi Tom,

Really wonderful pictures of a great trip!
Thanks for sharing them with us...

Please keep these beautiful A. sp. Alto Tapiche until October 2011 :rolleyes:... then you can give some to Alf S. when he comes to Germany, where I hopefully will meet him. :tongue:

best regards,
Rolo
 

Tom C

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….How do you bring apistogramma out alive?
….I also would like to know how you keep the water cool enough and aerated to keep the fish alive...Bill
Just like all the other wild fish that are brought out from the Amazon.
Put them in ordinary fishbags. Change water (and air) every day. Keep them in the bottom of the boat, covered by palm leaves or something similar to keep them “cold†and avoid exposure to the sun.
Put them in tanks in Iquitos, and pack them like the exporters do, and then a flight (to Europe).
For details on the packing: See post 22 in this thread

…..I see Mark has gotten that trasmitable disease that is going to the jungle, once you visit Amazonia you can't stop going back.
I’ve been carrying this disease for several years now, it really is the nicest disease you could have. :)
Mark was very easily infected too; if I remember right, he already one week after arrival claimed: “I’ll be back†!
See you next year, Julio!

…. Really wonderful pictures of a great trip!…
Thanks, Rolo.
Any chance we will see a report from your trip to French Guyana soon?
 

Rolo

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Any chance we will see a report from your trip to French Guyana soon?

Haha. Well your website is the BEST inspiration for me to take some time for doing this. But it nevertheless could take a while, because I have little time at the moment. Maybe a short version soon here... ;-)

regards,
Rolo
 

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