Re: A. sp "four stripes"

[Fredrik.Ljungberg@saab.se]

Mike Wise wrote:

> I don't have any written reports on breeding this fish, but I know of aquarists
> who have bred it. They breed like other members of the pertensis-group. For one
> thing, they tend to be monogamous so the more fish you have the better the chance
> of getting a good pair. If I were you, I'd go out an buy 3 or 4 more.
>
> Linke & Staeck state that they found all of the ones around Puerto Ayacucho in
> similar water conditions (translation follows):
>
> "The water was very soft in all of the collecting localities (Total & Carbonate
> hardness <1º dH, electrical conductivity 10-19 µS/cm) and acid. During high water
> periods (July, 1989) we found a water temperature of 25.5ºC (78ºF) and the pH
> running 5.5. At low water (March, 1996) we measured the same water at much higher
> temperatues, between 31.8ºC (89ºF) and 32.5ºC (90.5ºF), and pH values from 4.1 -
> 4.4. These fish live in both standing as well as strongly flowing waters, where
> they stay in the quieter pools however. In Laguna Paraqueña this dwarf cichlid
> was collected together with Apistogramma sp. Breitbinden (actually the A. sp.
> Caño Morrocoy population of Breitbinden - mw), Mesonauta insignis, Pterophyllum
> altum and Satanoperca daemon."

I got some fry when I had them 2 years ago (the Vaupes-morph). It worked in very
acid
and soft water, below pH 5.0 and hardness <1º dH, conductivity in the tank was less
than
50 µS/cm. Note that I didn't experiment a lot with these settings, I tried them
after two
unsuccesful spawns and didn't change back.

What Mike said about Breitbinden and Vierstreifen living together makes sense since
they both came in the shipment where I received my fish.

Regards,
Fredrik L.

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Fredrik.Ljungberg@saab.se
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