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All,
I was just checking into Tom and Martin's website and noticed the photos of these two fishes. I have collected many fish in the Madre de Dios that I THOUGHT were the latter, but now I'm not so sure. However, I am having trouble seeing what external characteristics are being used to...
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the reply. I was recalling a conversation I had with Chuck Nishihira some years ago, when I was selling these and he asked me what form they were. I confessed that I didn't realize there was more than one. He was convinced that there were three or four and that the...
Many thanks go out to the Embassy of Sierra Leone for processing and returning my Passport with the one year visa IN THREE DAYS! Just like they said they would. OK, so now I'm REALLY getting excited.... ;o0
Regards,
Brian Perkins
www.wildperu.net
Dear all,
Any of you that have been to my wildperu (one word) Facebook page have seen a photo of this fish laying in my hand. Since every effort to post the photo here has been thwarted by the software that runs this site, you will have to go there to see it. (no, I don't want a photobucket...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hung-jou_chen/6369836231/in/photostream
Now what is this fish? I'm guessing H. gutattus, but I'll let you all comment.
Thanks,
Brian Perkins
www.wildperu.net
All,
I am still in the planning stage of my collecting trip to Colombia later this year, and wanted to throw out this question. If you were going in search of an elusive Colombian Apistogramma species, where would you go and what species would you be the most excited about finding?
I am...
Mike,
That sounds like fun! I will look forward to it. Also in April, I will be just back from SL, so the chances of me having WC fishes is enhanced somewhat! Haha! :O)
Best Wishes,
Brian Perkins
www.wildperu,net
Ted,
That was timely! I'll be going into the Pando for the first time on this trip in two weeks! From Pto. Maldonado, it's only 40 Kms down the Madre de Dios to the border. Of course many of the Pando streams that flow in the MDD have their headwaters in Peru, so I expect to find many of the...
I couldn't either, for some reason. Thanks for looking! Are you going to be at the April RMCA meeting? I'll be there as speaker and would enjoy meeting you, Mike. Hope you can make it!
Best,
Brian Perkins
Yeah, rumors are generally just that.... I am thinking to plot out the significant location info. for the Guinean fish then locate myself across the border from those places and have a go....
Brina Perkins
www.wildperu.net
Thanks Ted,
I'll bring my seine from Peru, or have another made there for me, then.
P. signatus is found in what part of Guinea? (near to Kolente according to Anton's book) So I will make an effort to see if it's also in SL as well. We were planning to be in that area anyway. We'll keep...
Gents,
All of the small barbs, tetras and so on are also of interest. Dwarf catfish (ie Mochokiella paynei) and a red form of Ladigesia rolffi ( I guess Rosario Lacorte has/d them at one time). What else?
One of things I want to try there is a fine meshed seine, similar to the one I made...
Gents,
Thanks, Randall and Ted, you've given me some good leads to run down. The more I dig into the murk surrounding this whole genus, the more confused I get!
We'll be fishing along the Liberian border, so I will double check the Liberian occurrences for P. humilis to see if it's any...
Jonathon,
Write to Anthony at Wet Pets directly through the AB "ask seller a question" function. They are selling by the fish, not in pairs, so be sure to ask him if he thinks both sexes are present before purchasing. He told me when I asked that these were coming out of Singapore, btw. FYI...
Slim,
Were they "Grey" when you got them? Or did they "go grey"? The reason I ask is that when we collect them, they are a brilliant Red and blue striped fish. I do see some variation in the color intensity in different locations, ( we are up to 10 now) however they are all brilliantly...
Dear all,
After a discussion with Dr. Paul Loiselle last week, I have been searching Antons's book and the web, for information on H. bimaculatus, the Jewel Cichlid. Paul asked me to locate "12 juveniles of the original H. bimaculatus from their Type locality, we haven't seen on this side of...
We find many forms of Apistos. close to or related to A. urtagaei in the Madre de dios. All are slight variations on the basic "theme". I keep all of the locations separate in the same way I keep the Killies I catch, so that no mixing occurs until it is determined what these fishes all are in...