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Hi all, hi Ted,
I had some people here asking about my my new book, Bleher's Discius volume 2, it is finally out and delivery will start April 2nd.
Have a look at http://www.aquapress-bleher.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=510&Itemid=1
Also Ted, it was nice seing you, sorry...
Hi,
sorry guys, I just saw this now, probably being traveling almost none-stop.
Thanks Ted fro the nice comments, trying to show people around the world more and more how fishes live in nature, their friends and predators they live with, some in extreme tiny habitats and more and more...
Hi guys,
I just wanted to let you all know about my most recent report and some global warming facts, in which some of you may have interest in reading it - what is happening to our freshwater world, which I think is of concern to all, not only of the aquarists and/or dwarf cichlid lovers. I...
Hi guys,
did anyone see my new Apistogramma discoveries from last November/December in this publication?
If yes I would like to hear some of your comments, such as what you all think of those beauties and which group they belong to, Ao. sp. 1, Ap. sp. 2, and Ap. sp. 3 and also the very...
Hi,
I just saw this now. Are these babies large and still some living?
I found this species for the first time many years ago (and gave it to the late Rainer Warzel), but only in the tributaries of the Rio Demini (left-hand tributary of the middle Rio Negro) and again in 2006 and 2007...
Hi guys,
I hope you all are well and busy with your Apistos. I just published a new yearly issue on the latest update on Amazonia and it it are some of the recent discoveries explained with excellent photography. And the one you mention her for the time being is Apistogramma cf. bitaeniata...
Hi,
it is definitely coming out this year. Now in Italy is vacation time, also my people are off and I ONLY working to finish volume 2 while I see my posts, and notices coming and and just answer fast, as this one.
You probably cannot believe the work I am putting into volume 2, I think even...
Hi guys,
I wanted inform you all, that this new publication is not only for Discus, but also Apistogramma (several new ones) and all fish and plant lovers, Amazon and nature enthusiasts, as well as Angelfish lovers. It contains for the first time in any publication, internet or other media...
Hi guys,
just back from Interzoo and I wanted to tell you all if you have seen the Apistogramma from Libertad? Have a look:
http://www.aquapress-bleher.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=433&Itemid=1
They are surely in the bitaeniata-group, but exceptionally colourful - now...
Ed,
I was at Interzoo and just returned. (Better to always write directky to my e-mail).
The best place to collect there is in upper Cambodia, towards the border with Laos and the tributaries of Tonle Sap the giant lake - but move away from the lake as there is to much population and polution...
Hi,
Larry and Mike have given some valid suggestions and I just wanted to ad:
D. filamentosus ar good mates - yes. They live often with Iniridae, but also (if one wants) cardinal tetras and small pencil fishes, etc.
Have a look at for some Apistogramma mates in the Inirida regions under...
Hi,ù
I just wanted to mention that during all my 6 Cameroon colelcting trips in the past and 2 recent ones:
http://www.aquapress-bleher.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=49#2
I have never ever found any habitat of any one of all the Pelvicachromis taeniatus...
Hi,
you can get the pH down in a ntural way by using peat moos. Get good (not furtelized) peat moos at the (your) gardeners (shop) and pack it into fine a piece of fabric (so it does not disolve in the filter or in your aquarium). Add also some well watered drift wood pieces and surely the pH...
Hi guys,
1. We only use Firefox, therfore it should be easy to view it, never heard anyone who couldn't.
2. Thank you guys for the comments, you know I quite often "on the road", but when I am here I have been working almost every minute on volume 2, like now all night and still at 5:45...
Hi guys,
I was in that area again December 2009 in the Vaupes do not live rummynose, not Hyphessobrycon "robertsi", P. simulans and no P. axelrodi. The water of the Vaupes-Uaupes is not acid enough and not black, it has no habitat for those species.
In the more northern Atabapo yes, and in...
Hi Rafael,
one of the nicest gentleman I every met had your name: Rafael (Wandurrage). He weas one of the first fishermen of ornamentals in Colombia and an amazing Indian. With beautiful two daughters... I will never forget. (And worte about it in my book...).
Anyhow, thoise dwayf...
Hi guys,
thank you for the nice comments, Natasha just placed another small series of pictures (and underwater video) from a complete other small creek I researched last December in the Inirida region (I surveyed 4 river basins in Amazonia November/December 2009 colelcting over 500 differen...
Hi,
I did not see this answer before, because since I am giving lectures around the world - every weekend in another country or continent for the last 7 weeks.
I just wanted to say: I think it is a serious matter placing the word "liar" into the mouth of someone who never said or written...
Hi guys,
yes, the genus Dicrossus (formerly Crenicara), is amazing and to my research and knowledge very little done on it. I made some (severe) comments on the latest description of a D. filamentosus with a single "sword" as a new species (which Dr Steack did not like, and some others also...
Hi,
OK apology accepted. Sometimes communication becomes a problem, I understand, specially if ones mother language is not English (as mine).
Best regards
Heiko Bleher
www.aquapress-bleher.com