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I found L. curviceps much more mild than L. dorsigera, with L. araguaiae in the middle of the two, but leaning closer to L. dorsigera. While not as territorial as L. thayeri, I still found quite a notable difference between L. dorsigera and L. curviceps.
I am speaking specifically to a pair in...
See in some of your pics there does look like orange around the dorsal ocelli ... but that could be the lighting, which is why I didn't give a more definite answer.
My Colombian wallacii had orange rimmed ocelli with no white to be seen. The Cr. sp. Orinoco Dwarf has red and white rimmed ocelli. There are also at least two other undescribed dwarves from the same area, and I have seem them come in as a mix together. The only one I can discount from the...
Also, while I haven't kept this variant yet, from what I've seen from others on forums the Rio Tapajos regani due seem to be more territorial to each other than the 'classic' regani. This is from people that have kept both locations. The Rio Tapajos is the most commonly one seen now a days, I...
I've kept a few different species of dwarf pikes with various dwarf cichlids (Laetacara mostly) and it worked really well. However, several species hunt apisto fry in nature, so not sure how well it would go. If I were to try it, I would keep to the larger species (as Mike suggested).
I would...
Interesting, I haven't noticed any breeding. Not sure if the Enigmatochromis have something to do with that, or if the lack of fine leaf plants (only have various anubias, african fern, and red tiger lily) has something to do with it.
Understandable. I was giving my best guess, since I've never seen/read about a regani being found in the Rio Negro before. Noto's seem to have them beat out there.
I knew I was forgetting one other dwarf with the white spots in the tail ... Vinny Kutty's Bolivian Citrus dwaves ... http://www.reocities.com/NapaValley/5491/citruspike.html
Hmmmmm ... the male does look like Cr. wallacii to me (Guyana/Rio Branco not the more recently common Colombians). I tried to re-find a picture I saved several years back, but I couldn't. The coloring and the pattern in the dorsal and anal fin is quite distinctive. I don't really want to repost...
The fish with the most red in the tail I've seen was what we thought was the Rio Branco wallacii ... here's the link from a google search of the fish (not my picture, this came up on a google image search): http://s4.photobucket.com/user/minerals22/media/021.jpg.html
I've not seen any thing lately that has ocelli in the tail, definitely not from that area. Does dorsal ocelli contain red or orange? I've not seen a regani from the Negro before. Noto's sure, and I can only assume possible wallacii since they are found in both the Rio Branco and the Orinoco...