Re: splash tetra

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

WndrKdnomo@aol.com wrote:

> A couple of years ago I saw a nature documentery on TV, showing brood care of
> the splash tetra.

I remember the same program on the submerged forest, too.

> 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.

I'm pretty sure that the splash tetra breeding sequence was done in a controled
environment, like most of the close up underwater shots. They're nearly impossible
in their natural environment.

> 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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