Re: "biotope project"

[Per Wigstal <per_wigstal@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi
 
I have had some correspondance with a couple of guys that have collected A. Commbrae in Uruguay.
Felipe Cantera, Pablo Laurino, Marcelo Casacuberta and Vinnie Cutty.
 
Felipe and Marcelo have confirmed that they have collected Commbraes "in Salto, near a dam called Salto Grande". Felipe have a photo of one of these fishes on his website. 
http://www.aqvaterra.com/photos/peces/galeria_ciclidos/apistogramma_commbrae_550x380.jpg
 
Pablo Laurino wrote that the Commbraes could be found near Villa Constitution (Departemento de Salto) and in the area of Bella Union (Departemento de Artigas)
 
Pablo Laurino wrote about the habitats;
 
"The habitats of Apistos are quite simmilar between each other, but 
often we collect isolated individuals in different conditions. The most common ones are ponds that are inundated during floods, and after get more or less isolated from the main bodies of water.
 
It is actually neutral or sligthly acid in pH, and quite soft to little hardness. This are not like amazon waters, not brown at all. They are clear when the sediments are deposited as 
water gets quiet. They come from the rivers filled with rain, and with 
sand substrate mainly and some mud and lime, but little vegetable debris. 
The ponds that apistos inhabit are regularily plenty of vegetation, mainly 
on the shores, where they are found among the multiple species, like 
Ludwigia, Higrophila, Miriophyllum, Pontederia, Echinodorus. They get protection from the several predators that live within them, as Serrasalmus (Piranha), Oligosarcus, Crenicichla, Hoplias, etc."

Lee, who are your contact person in Uruguay? 
Hoping to get some info from your trip in July! :-)
(Really would like to go there myself.)
 
Best regards/ Per
 



Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com> wrote:
Per,

I'd be very interested to learn the Uruguayan collecting localities of 
A. commbrae.

Mike Wise

Per Wigstal wrote:

>Hello Greg!
> 
>Sounds like a great idea! It would be very interesting with such a list. Altough there are problems to make a list that covers all the habitats for a species like for example Ap. Agassizi. Since it is spread over the major part of the amazon, it is sharing it´s habitats with numerous different species, depending on where in the amazon the Agassizi´s are collected.
>Some other species will be easier of course. At least there are some apistos that are endemic to certain rivers.
> 
>I will try to help if I can. I have at least some info about collecting sites in uruguay for the Ap. Commbrae. (Perhaps the southest collecting site of any apisto species)
> 
>Best regards/ Per
> 
>
>Grzegorz Prusinowski wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>It's a little bit quiet lately, but perhaps you will be
>willing to help me with one giantic project, that I saved
>for summer time. We have an apisto dedicated website with
>some friends from Poland and try to gradualy improve the
>content. For some time I have been thinking about a
>"compatibility list" of species occuring simpathricaly with
>the dwarf cichlids. I know it's a lifetime job, but if I
>start with some popular species and limit to other fish
>known to aquarium hobbyists it could be a great help for
>those, who plan a biotope tank.
>
>I poped onto some links to collecting trips' diaries, that
>are very helpful. I hope you know of some more, perhaps have
>your own experiences and remarks to add. Or maybe somebody
>already "been there did that"?
>
>Counting on your help.
>
>Greg
>
>Grzegorz Prusinowski
>www.apisto.pl
>
>
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