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I found this article and thought you guys might find it interesting as well: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182618
Abstract
Evaluating biodiversity and understanding the processes involved in diversification are noticeable conservation issues in fishes...
So, I know this isn't the best forum to ask this, but I know there are a lot of knowledgeable people here, so I thought, why not ask here. I read on an article by Nathan Hill that some people seem to think that the EB Acara comes from crossbreeding the normal Blue Acara with Rams by artificial...
Here's she now:
I'm so gutted about this, since she was starting to show signs that she was breeding. Resided in her cave, male around her. And suddenly out of nowhere she's dead now. There seems to be no cause for this and I'm gutted. Sorry if I posted this here, but I felt like I needed to...
Here's the paper: http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz67-2/00_vertebrate_zoology_67-2_roemer-et-al_pre-release.pdf
So I have a 64 gallon (240 litre) Juwel RIO 240 tank with a pair of A. viejita, several Corydoras aeneus and some cardinals tetras and some Hyphessobrycon sweglesi. Because of these tetras I'm unable to breed (fry get eaten anyways, and TDS is a tad bit high).
Now I was wondering (also not...
So I've had this male A. viejita for a while known, but it seems to be developing red on it's shoulder. I took pics of it as you can see below (with and without flash, don't mind the dirty glass). I've never seen this in other A. viejita, but I know that this one is F1 from near Puerto Gaitan...
I was wondering if there was an (updated) list of the A-numbers with their current name? I have the DATZ book but that's from 2005 and since then new apistos have been found and others have been given an official scientific name.
I've been wondering for a while where the name German Blue Ram came from. I've always been told that it came from a time where the "true" GBRs were bred by German breeders and this meant that they were of higher quality (so to say). In an era were lots of them are mass bred in farms, they don't...
There's this A. borellii female that looked like this 2 years ago
and she was like this a bit over 2 months ago
But now she looks completely like this
She's wild caught, but the blue sheen seems to be a male feature. Does anyone know what is happening here?
I'm getting the DATZ publication and I was wondering if there was a list with errata and/or updates, since the book has been published in 2005?
Thanks in advance!
I've been wondering something and I've talked about it with several people, but I couldn't find any scientific paper on the subject. Wouldn't dosing ferts combined with water changes cause changes in TDS and hence cause osmotic shock(s) which are harmful to fish?