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  1. Bart Hazes

    Valid apisto species list

    There are now links to publicly available species description documents for 81 out of the 94 species on http://biodives.com/apistogramma. If you have Cichlid Atlas 2 that gives you 4 more and there are 5 in Cichliden-Lexikon Teil 3, a German book by Wolfgang Staeck from 2003 that I don't have...
  2. Bart Hazes

    Valid apisto species list

    I have just been adding links for PDFs of species descriptions when they are publicly available. Unfortunately, I can't provide access to journals that are not open access.
  3. Bart Hazes

    Valid apisto species list

    I checked Catalog of Fishes and fishbase.org and neither lists this species. I also have access to academic search engines that send me weekly alerts when papers about apistogramma, including description of new species, appear. So to my knowledge this remains a clearly distinct but undescribed...
  4. Bart Hazes

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    The discussion about valid species has stimulated me to create a list of Apistogramma species. I started a new thread to announce this and to post updates to as I add personal 'apisto pages' for the species I've kept myself. The new thread is here...
  5. Bart Hazes

    Valid apisto species list

    A recent discussion on this forum about finding info on known apisto species has stimulated me to create a list (based on Catalog of Fishes - considered the most reliable source among some professional marine ichthyologists I've worked with). Currently it only contains scientifically described...
  6. Bart Hazes

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    Hi Mike, Does the ICZN, or other organization, maintain an authorative list of up to date valid species, or are your 94 based on a personal list updated as new species appear. I have access to a university library so can get many of the species description papers but some are in books or...
  7. Bart Hazes

    A. sp. D50 - another larvophilous mouthbrooder from Colombia

    Earlier this month there was a post on the Apistogramma International facebook group showing an apisto found by Heiko Bleher. He was all excited because it had a red rim around the pupil. I don't know when or where he found it and he didn't give a name but it looks similar to your female.
  8. Bart Hazes

    Low-flow and no-flow Apistogramma biotope tanks

    As a Dutchman I should have house plants but at the moment I don't. My window sills are full of jars with plants, green water, daphnia etc so no space for plants. I could add some aquaponics-style house plants to tanks but the idea behind using house plants is that they can grow rapidly by using...
  9. Bart Hazes

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    I think there are cases where a fish name has been published but not all experts accept it as valid. So there may be some ambiguity. From the two online sources I use, listed below, I normally consider Catalog of Fishes as the gold standard but it would be good to hear from the experts if there...
  10. Bart Hazes

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  11. Bart Hazes

    Coconut breeding cave

    I have not seen dramatic pH reductions due to driftwood or leafs. Some things that work well in a jar with RO water, like ADA Africana substrate, don't work as well in a tank. The pH in some tanks has now dropped to the 5.5-6.0 range whereas plain RO water is 6.3-6.5. That said, your TDS is...
  12. Bart Hazes

    Coconut breeding cave

    Sounds promising. Time to cancel your TV subscription as you won't need it any more :) 20 ppm is great and your pH is likely at least 6.5 perhaps a bit lower already. I don't know what species you have but for many that is enough to get going.
  13. Bart Hazes

    Coconut breeding cave

    Rather coarse gravel, may be hard to pile up for the female. But not all of them do so it may work. If she is not interested you can also make the opening smaller but pushing that side of the coconut deeper into the gravel.
  14. Bart Hazes

    Kullanderi

    sp. Rotflecken are listed at US$45 each or US$40 if buying 6 or more. I was hoping they would have the distinct red dots on the lower head, like an image in one of my books. However, on a picture Oliver showed me they didn't, at least not at that time, and I didn't want to spend that much hoping...
  15. Bart Hazes

    Coconut breeding cave

    This is what Darrel is referring to. It's my female A. norberti who engineered the cave entrance so only she could get in. During spawning she would reside more or less permanently inside the cave with the male visiting the entrance about once a minute, tilting his belly towards the opening and...
  16. Bart Hazes

    Low-flow and no-flow Apistogramma biotope tanks

    My interest in Apistogramma, and other fish for that matter, is linked to learning about and trying to recreate the biotopes they live in. Many apistos come from slow flowing small streams, shallow lake margins, and completely stagnant ponds or puddles. I have therefore been running many tanks...
  17. Bart Hazes

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    A valid scientific name consists of a genus name (e.g. Apistogramma) and the species name (e.g. agassizii). When a specimen is an undescribed species (or when the author simply could not identify it to the species level) they use "Apistogramma sp." to indicate it is a species within that genus...
  18. Bart Hazes

    New apistogramma lover!

    Hi Brittany, welcome to apisto world. There is no shortage of different apistogramma species so you will be able to explore their diversity, beauty and behaviour for a long time. I got hooked in July 2016 and now have over a dozen species with half of them breeding. If you love your cacatuoides...
  19. Bart Hazes

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    Since this doesn't seem to match a species with an established name I'd keep the sp. 'Totoya' trade name suggested by Wetspot who probably got it shipped under that name from their Peruvian exporter. It also indicates location which can be helpful.
  20. Bart Hazes

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    In addition to the difference in abdominal stripes, the sp. 'Totoya' has a prominent yellowish tail, like A. ortegai and relatives. Less so in the sp. 'Putumayo' images, but perhaps would appear in unstressed animals. I also can't help but see similarities to A. rubrolineata include the...
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