Collecting in Peru

[anewbie]

MacZ - You must want more than what I brought back. I am bringing only norberti and a bunch of neons.

You did not bring back those lovely agassizii ?

 

[MacZ]

MacZ - You must want more than what I brought back. I am bringing only norberti and a bunch of neons.

That wasn't clear from your posts, I'm also just interested in what species (all, not only Apistos) you (I mean your group) is bringing back. It's just out of cuiousity.

 

[Ttw]

Nope. Did not bring back the aggie. I have limited space.
I know some brought back the aggies, bitaeniata , and pucullpaenis that we caught but some also purchased fish at the exporter's that I don't know. Also some cories and rivulus, and pyrrhulina we caught. Left the stingray.
Just to be complete, this is the feeding stream to the Santa Ana community pool. Not sure why it didn't post before.
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[Ttw]

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[anewbie]

Nope. Did not bring back the aggie. I have limited space.
I know some brought back the aggies, bitaeniata , and pucullpaenis that we caught but some also purchased fish at the exporter's that I don't know. Also some cories and rivulus, and pyrrhulina we caught. Left the stingray.
Just to be complete, this is the feeding stream to the Santa Ana community pool. Not sure why it didn't post before.
View attachment 18443

FYI: That link is broken.

 

[anewbie]

Sorry, I neglected to put in collection site characteristics.
Pucallpaensis site: S 5° 7' 2" W73° 51' 40" pH 6.6 TDS 222 ppm T 81°
Water shallow, muddy and mostly covered with Water Lettuce. Deep muddy bottom.

I wanted to bring this up a 2nd time but is the 222 number correct for tds? Tom's website has low to mid hard so maybe it really was 222. I have a group in ro water and i've kept them in tap before (around 120) but nothing close to 222. Really an under-rated fish.

 

[Ttw]

My meter did read 222

 

[Mike Wise]

I never measured e.c. that high in any sites I sampled in Peru, but because I never sampled whitewater biotopes I wouldn't be surprised if it did measure as Ttw wrote. Ap. pucallpaensis is a wide-ranging species, from the entire Rio Ucayali drainage and eastward along the Peruvian Amazon as far as western Brazil. The species is found in many water types along its range. I appears to be very adaptable.