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Sorry, I was not really questioning the status of the territory. Reading my post again, I realize I wasn,t very clear about my question.
It was really this sentence I´m wondering about:
"the “import” of fish from these places is no more difficult that carrying fish across borders in Europe."...
I was just reading the comments from During in this article in "Aquarium International". He mentions that since france are considering former colonys actually as parts of EU, the imports of fishes to Europe is very simple. See the quote below:
"European Jungle – Watching Apistogramma gossei...
Just keep in mind that the A.Borellii is a highly polychromatic species. It´s not that easy to apply the A-numbers for the numerous colorations. The comments in DATZ "South american dwarfcichlids" refering the A-numbers of A. Borellii (A101-105) highlights this as well:
"So far it´s not...
I will be travelling to Netherlands in January (business trip). I would like to spend a day to explore aquarium shops, looking for some rare Apisto species of course :)
Any advices where to go?
Here´s a poor picture of the little fellow.
Normally he have a much more greyish colour, than shown on this photo. I think he was a bit excited about the live artemia I used to get him closer to the front glass :)
http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww310/pelledesu/whiteseam/whiteseam.jpg
I found one as well! I was strolling through the LFS a couple of days ago, when I spotted a strange little fish among the D. filamentosus in a slightly over crowded tank. Everytime I see a tank of wild caught dicrossus in a shop, I always remember this thread! When I looked closer at the tiny...
Here´s a good clip on a pair of Steel blue´s guarding their fry´s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSU3KyV_rPA
As you can see, the female look just like any other apisto female. No problem to identify her.
By the way Darrel, all the photos in your pdf document are actually showing...
I have had this species since I bought a group back in 2003. It´s a very small species. Without any clear sexual diformism. The males are very similar to the females in shape and colour.
I would say that they are not that easy to breed. Can not be compared to borellii and cacatuoides for...
I agree with you Mike. The conditions for my aging Borellii female was exactly like that. She was alone in a 50 litre tank with some guppy as company for the major part of her life.
No spawning, regular feeding and low density of fish. She was the last remaining of a very nice yellowhead...
My oldest apisto ever, was a Borellii female that reached the age of eight years! Definately an extreme, since the average lifespan of my apistos would be about two years.
I just have one male Commbrae in one of my tanks, but he is not as colorful as the male in your picture. You wrote that they are large compared to Regani group species. What is the size of your male? Commbrae is a small species, the males are at max 6 cm lenght. At least the ones I have had in...
Thanks a lot for this very interesting and detailed information, Mike! :)
Really would like to get hold of some of these tiny species with "reverse sexual dimorphism" (hope I spelled it right). A sp Chao and A sp Courtship spot, would be a great find! Haven´t seen any of these species in the...
There was a discussion about the Xingu dam project on Swedish cichlid forum some time ago. Someone started to wondering about how many cichlid species that would disappear because of the impact from this mega project.
Since my major interest in cichlids mainly focuses on Apistos. I was...
Wow! I just noticed this thread! K-pon, you have a lot of nice fishes and the photos of them are great as well!
How is your fish room/house set up? Would be interesting to have some info! :)
Fantastic colours on that male! Did you find more Borellii males in that pond? If you did it would be interesting to know how big the colour variations were between the males?
It´s nice to see that strong ochra-yellow coloration, so typical for the populations in the south. You don´t see much...