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- Manaus, Brazil south america
Will be collecting in Tiririca saturday and Sunday I have been here before, and caught paucisquamis, true pertensis, cf. pertensis, and gibbiceps. Wish me luck!
A. roraimae (A 210), type locailty = 10 km from Boa Vista on the road to Caracarai (Would be fantastic if you found this one!)Next week I am travelling to Boa vista and will be staying there 9 days. i will fish in some of the creeks there. Other then rupununi and gibbiceps, what should I look for?
The "high" pH is unusual for this area, and very interesting. Thanks for the info, Hudson!...Tom C yes I did measure the PH and Hardness the PH was high, about 6.2 and the hardness was 0 ppm
Next week I am travelling to Boa vista and will be staying there 9 days. i will fish in some of the creeks there. Other then rupununi and gibbiceps, what should I look for?
Dont take it as fact I did the test in a boat while it was moving fast in a storm, I should have tested it more carefully. I only fished in the Rio negro by the anavilhanas, The water was so High the igarapes have almost all dissapeared in the amazon.A. roraimae (A 210), type locailty = 10 km from Boa Vista on the road to Caracarai (Would be fantastic if you found this one!)
A. cf. rupununi (Boa Vista) (A 131)
A. sp. Branco (A 226) (= A. cf. pulchra (Branco); A. sp. “Branco-Pulchra”) has been collected in the Rio Cauamé drainage (U.Rio Branco near Boa Vista)
I wish you good luck!
The "high" pH is unusual for this area, and very interesting. Thanks for the info, Hudson!
Thank you! Your welcomegreat pictures. thanks for sharing.
best of luck for your next expedition![]()
Careful though, there are TONs of variables, where they live, availability of food, habitat, species, time of year (right before spawning) etc. ask Mike Wise or TomC they should know a lot better then me.Interesting to observe that the wild-caught Apistogramma's show once more that in captivity kept freshwaterfish are mostely given to much food. At least in my case the apistogramma's i'm keeping all show a much bigger bally then the fish Hudson caught. This is for me the reason to get the fish on a diet of brine shrimps only once a day in stead of twice, starting today.
Other species found in the area around Boa Vista include A. roraimae, A. wapisana, A. sp. Branco, and A. sp. Rupununi Savanna. As you can see, this part of the Rio Branco isn't collected commecially very often.