Steatocranus

[Rikard]

Hello all of you(Hm... shouldn`t have said that.) I just wonder which rarer species of steatocranus is around? :lol:

 

[Randall]

Steatocranus Species

Dear Rikard,

Hello to all of you too!

I don't know what is routinely available in Sweden, but in the US, one sees S. casuarius and S. tinanti from time to time. I, for one, would like to keep S. irvinei, but Steatocranus species are generally considered somewhat of a "specialty" here, so one does not see them too often.

Thank you.

Randall Kohn

 

[Neil]

Here is a list of Steatocranus from the species list on Apistogramma.com
http://www.apistogramma.com/specieslist.htm
I would say that any of them are very rare except for causrius and tinanti.

S. CASUARIUS

S. GIBBICEPS

S. GLABER

S. IRVINEI

S. MPOZOENSIS

S. ROUXI

S. UBANGUIENSIS

S. TINANTI

I would love to work with any number of these guys, but that's a whole can of worms that I am not quite ready to open yet! 8O
Neil

 

[tjudy]

irvinei is a pretty darn cool fish. I had the pleasure of seeing and attempting to photograph a pair at a friend's home in Colorado in 1995?6?.. I've slept since then. I spent hours in front of a 75 gallon heavily planted tank and waited for them to come out. Talk about shy. Not like causarius or tinanti at all. Heard of the blue bottom jaw? It's BLUE... really BLUE... not a faded blueish gray.

Cool fish... be nice to see them around again.

 

[Richgrenfell]

hey Ted,

did you get any good shots?

Rich

 

[tjudy]

:lol: :lol: :lol: That was in the days before digital. I used to shoot about 100 slides to get one or two decent pics. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I do not remember getting any decent shots of them, but I will look through my slides just in case. There might be one or two of blurred shadowy shapes with a bit of blue on the tip.... :wink: