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  1. Bart Hazes

    A macmasteri backwater or whitewater?

    White water has a lot of particulates, often eroded material from young mountains like the Andes. It tends to be harder, less acidic, and with very limited transparency. Clear water is the opposite with good transparency and normally low hardness and low pH. Black water is clear water with a lot...
  2. Bart Hazes

    Hello Apistee from Canada

    Welcome Lanny. You have quite an interesting collection already. Only 90+ more described species (and another 100 undescribed ones) to go :) Are you looking to breed them?
  3. Bart Hazes

    A macmasteri backwater or whitewater?

    I got my info from Uwe's cichlid atlas 1 which, based on reports by Linke & Staeck, indicates they were caught in a very slow flowing clear water stream. Perhaps they can be found in both clear and black water. I am sure that wouldn't be the first time.
  4. Bart Hazes

    Koslowski book(s) & translation

    Thanks Mike. It sounded too good to be true. I'll buy the German copy when I'm back in Europe next Spring. My German is probably still good enough to read it.
  5. Bart Hazes

    Koslowski book(s) & translation

    Hi Mike, One more on this topic. In the section of your 10 year old post shown below you indicated that you can provide the English translation of Cichlids of the Americas - Apistogramma & Co if you own either (1) or (3). (1) Die Buntbarsche Amerikas - Apistogramma & Co. (in German): US$31.00...
  6. Bart Hazes

    A macmasteri backwater or whitewater?

    It is neither. A. macmasteri comes from small clear water creeks that are acidic and very soft but have little or not tannin.
  7. Bart Hazes

    Greetings from Belgium

    Welcome Rory, I got my aquarium start in the Netherlands with Aequidens (now Laetacara) curviceps as my first dwarf cichlid but never made it to Apistos at that time. Now I have a dozen or so species and half of them are breeding. Like you I love their personalities and the interactions amongst...
  8. Bart Hazes

    Hello from Venezuela

    Good water, good (life) food, adequate space and hiding places and the fish will often take care of the rest. Enjoy!
  9. Bart Hazes

    Classic Iniridae- so pretty!!

    The lack of buying may have something to do with the lack of selling. I hope you can breed them and spread the offspring around in your community.
  10. Bart Hazes

    Introducing

    Well you now know 10,826 people with apistos :)
  11. Bart Hazes

    Newb with fry!

    Congratulations. Also so it to the non-initiated because they don't know what they are missing.
  12. Bart Hazes

    A. sp. D50 - another larvophilous mouthbrooder from Colombia

    I have started to do that for marine species that I have found during holiday/hobby reef surveys. I am eyeing a first trip to the Amazon but time is always the issue. Finding someone to take care of my growing collection of tanks is starting to become a second issue :) You can check my website...
  13. Bart Hazes

    Hello from Venezuela

    Welcome. Do you ever have a chance to explore the creeks and ponds in Venezuela yourself. That would be so much fun.
  14. Bart Hazes

    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I have BGA on floater in 3 out of 14 tanks and haven't figured out what makes them different. It started after a recent summer holiday trip and hasn't disappeared yet.
  15. Bart Hazes

    A. sp. D50 - another larvophilous mouthbrooder from Colombia

    The at least slightly lyrate tail (or is it round with tip extensions?), patterning in the tail and extension of dorsal spines over most of the dorsal fin length all remind me of cacatuoides, including A. megastoma/barlowi. The flank spot adds to that list. The male body seems a bit deeper than...
  16. Bart Hazes

    A. sp. D50 - another larvophilous mouthbrooder from Colombia

    Exciting and beautiful images! Am I correct that it is a close relative of megastoma/barlowi and thus mouthbrooding likely represents a single evolutionary event in this lineage? The zigzag lateral line, soothy patch on belly and red/pearly cheek lines on the male remind me of some of the...
  17. Bart Hazes

    Is this a sneaker male or a coloured female?

    To me it looks convincingly like a female. Sneaker males look like "neutral" females and not yellow. Only cases I've heard of males adopting female breeding colours are when the female dies or otherwise stops caring for her fry and the male decides to take over. I think you'll have to keep them...
  18. Bart Hazes

    Hatchets or Pencils?

    For what it's worth, my N. eques have never jumped and of the about 100 pencilfish over 6 or 7 species maybe one has ever jumped my lid-less tanks. But I do have a virtually 100% cover of floating plants in most tanks.
  19. Bart Hazes

    Help sexing these Macmasteri?

    Both males to me too.
  20. Bart Hazes

    Apistogramma allpahuayo biotope

    My A. allpahuayo setup is doing well and the pair now has its first spawn that is about a week old. The female is doing a bang-up job defending her 25-30 fry against 6 A. sp. Abacaxis, 6 Crenuchus spilurus and 15 Axelrodia riesei. In contrast an Abacaxis female didn't manage to defend her small...
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