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    How many male and female borelli would you recommend for a 40B ?

    You could do a pair of another species with different finnage, like A. agassizii or A. diplotaenia. A. agassizii may be mean to each other if you just get a pair but your tank looks like it has enough hiding places that it might not be an issue.
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    Looking for species I.D. from TomC "Collecting in Río Tigre / Río Pucacuro 2010"

    Hi George, I sent you a PM.
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    Species ID from Youtube video I saw posted on another forum.

    Ah! Very cool. I wish it was in English, but I guess I can use it to put my Spanish from 17 years ago to work. Thanks Tom!
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    Looking for species I.D. from TomC "Collecting in Río Tigre / Río Pucacuro 2010"

    It appears to me that it is indeed what CRD suggested. Also, as Mike and Mac both stated, the distribution is more than likely wider than just Rio Tigre and it's tributaries. See this blog post (I translated from Chinese to Enlish in Google Chrome, YMMV).
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    Academic discussion about distribution and waterfowl transporting eggs to other bodies of water.

    I'm wondering if what this article from The Smithsonian is talking about occurs in South America with the native fish population. Does this phenomena occur with any waterfowl populations in SA? How exactly would it affect distribution of fish in SA if it did?
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    Looking for species I.D. from TomC "Collecting in Río Tigre / Río Pucacuro 2010"

    I can appreciate what you both mean about the distribution being larger than what is officially documented. I only mentioned the type locality because it was specifically stated as the location where the particular specimens in the photographs were collected. I thought it might be helpful to...
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    Looking for species I.D. from TomC "Collecting in Río Tigre / Río Pucacuro 2010"

    It could be, but Peru isn't listed as the distribution locale for that species anywhere, and this particular fish is from a smaller creek tributary of the Rio Tigre somewhere downstream of Intuto, between Intuto and Nauta in Peru.
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    Looking for species I.D. from TomC "Collecting in Río Tigre / Río Pucacuro 2010"

    I've been doing some research trying to find a Genus sp. name for a tetra that appears in TomC's "Collecting in Río Tigre / Río Pucacuro 2010" collection trip notes and gallery. Specifically the one found the last day with A. pantalone and A. martini in the trip notes, shown here in the...
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    New collecting reports

    Ah, I was confused with the lineage/group nomenclature.
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    New collecting reports

    Is the A. sp. 'Matses' from the 2011 report part of the Nijsseni lineage? The coloring is very similar to A. nijsseni and A. panduro, and the longer trailing ventrals, especially on the females, are reminiscent of my A. rositae. Seems like most of those species are all from the same general...
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    Anyone have tips for hatching BBS?

    I tried your suggestions and actually had a fair number of BBS hatch out the most recent instance. Still very poor hatch rate, I'd say somewhere around 25-30% but no more than that. I also changed my light source out, as the water had been very warm, perhaps too warm (felt much higher than 86F)...
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    Snails in "blackwater biotope" tanks?

    Interesting Darrel, nice thread you linked. Having read through it, makes me wonder if one or two would do alright as long as my pH doesn't live south of around 5.5, and I can provide enough Ca++ for the snails' shell production. How exactly does this phenomena differ in an acidic tank...
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    Snails in "blackwater biotope" tanks?

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    Anyone have tips for hatching BBS?

    I'll try out some of your suggestions with the new batch I have coming. I'll have to recheck my municipal water website to see if it states specifically whether they use chlorine or chloramines. I believe SeaChem Prime neutralizes both, correct?
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    Anyone have tips for hatching BBS?

    I hadn't been, but the last time I did just to rule it out. It didn't affect a change in my results. The different methods I'd read through previously said dechlorinating was unnecessary due to offgassing. What hydrometer do you use? One of those slender glass hydrometer/thermometer combos? My...
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