Re: splash tetra

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In a message dated 11/9/98 5:39:29 PM, apistowise@bewellnet.com writes:

<<I've been looking for the real Splash Tetra for a long time, too - about 25
years! From what I've read they are extremely rare in the hobby and only
domestic breeders have them. No one really knows where they come from in the
wild. They've been listed as coming from

anywhere from Guyana to the lower Amazon to the Rio Paraná. Do you think they
could be extinct there? A scary thought.



Mike WIse>>

A couple of years ago I saw a nature documentery on TV, showing brood care of
the splash tetra.  It was apparantly shot on location, although I don't
remember where they said it was, if the did.  It is possible, of course that
the sequence was shot in a vivarium or something simular, but as I remember it
it looked like they went out and shot it in some Amzonian backwater.  If you
can track down the film footage, (I don't know how you would do this, but I
assume there has to be some way you can) perhaps you could find out from the
producers the location in the wild.
By the way, it was really fascinating watching the fish spawn, and seeing the
male rush out to "splash" the eggs.
Jeff





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