Re: A. sp. Wangenflecken??

["V Kutty" <kutty@earthlink.net>]

I was told that these fish are imported from somewhere Far East.  I actually
picked up a few males and the only female in the tank...this was back in
Sep-Oct 1990.  Someone must have let a female slip in.  I got a spawn out of
them but it was in a planted community tank and I lost the fry to
predation...or so I thought.  I was moving a couple months later, so I tore
down the tank and gave the adults to someone.  I didn't set up my tanks
after I moved for a few months but I was in Central Florida back then and
since it was summer, I left the tank outside.  One little Wangenflecken
apparently survived in the little bit of water and gravel that was in the
tank while being moved.  It survived and made it into another planted tank
after I discovered him.  Guilt ridden, I gave him all my love, brine shrimp
and mosquito larvae.  He grew to two inches and it was time for me to move
again.  This time, I put him in a 55-gal tank with some juvenile Uaru, whom
the little apisto began pushing around...a habit he never outgrew even after
the Uarus grew to 8 inches.  I had him for three more years, when he died at
the ripe old age of 4 and a half.

Vinny

(http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/5491/resticulosa.html)



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