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  1. Tom C

    Unknown plant

    This plant (The light green stem plant with hundreds of narrow leaves) has a history. A few small pieces of it was brought back from a fish trip in Guyana, in 1999, by Alf Stahlsberg (1948 - 2022). A friend of him was given a piece of it, and successfully cared for this plant all the time...
  2. Tom C

    New Mikrogeophagus described

    Mikrogeophagus maculicauda
  3. Tom C

    Some species will not be exported from Colombia for a while.

    The Colombian authorities have, due to overfishing, banned the collection and export of the following species for the whole of 2022 and 2023: Corydoras axelrodi, Corydoras metae, Apteronotus galvisi, Eigenmannia virescens, Dicrossus filamentosus, Rineloricaria eigenmanni and Farlowella vittata...
  4. Tom C

    New Apistogramma article published today.

    We have published a brand new article today: Apistogramma sp. "Cuiari", a new beauty from eastern Colombia Enjoy!
  5. Tom C

    New collecting reports

  6. Tom C

    New Apistogramma described

  7. Tom C

    A new impressive article

  8. Tom C

    New Apistogramma-species list!

  9. Tom C

    New article!

    Today I have the pleasure of publishing on our site: An insightful, inspiring and beautiful article about the species so far called Apistogramma sp. "D37": A Colombian Beauty – Apistogramma sp. ‘Kiemenfleck/Gill-spot’ by Frank Hättich and Yukitoshi Ohnota Enjoy!
  10. Tom C

    New article! Apistogramma sp. "D10"

    Today I have the pleasure of publishing on our site: An exquisite and thorough article, where most aspects of a mouth-breeding Apistogramma from Colombia are reviewed in detail. Frank Hättich and Roland Kipper's wonderful article about Apistogramma sp. "D10", a new mouthbrooder from Colombia...
  11. Tom C

    Mike Wise's amazing 2017-revised list of more than 400 species / forms of Apistogramma

    I happily announce that it's finally ready for you all to read: Mike Wise's amazing 2017-revised list of more than 400 species / forms of Apistogramma, arranged in groups and complexes!
  12. Tom C

    Another new Apistogramma has been described

    The Apistogramma sororcula has been described by Wolfgng Staeck & Ingo Schindler: Apistogramma sororcula, a new dwarf cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the drainage of the rio Guaporé in Bolivia and Brazil
  13. Tom C

    apisto.sites.no is down

    I just want to inform you that our site, apisto.sites.no, is temporarily (fingers crossed!) inaccessible. :( We experienced a server crash, and unfortunately this also influenced on the server that holds the backup system. Martin is working hard to solve the problems, but it may take some time...
  14. Tom C

    Apistogramma "Black Mountain"

    The 2015-trip to the Peruvian Amazon brought us to the Río Sumón , a tributary to the Río Yahuasyacu, which is a tributary to the Río Ampiyacu (Pebas area). Here lives an interesting, rare Apistogramma cf. ortegai (?) form. (It might be exported as Apistogramma "Black Mountains" in the...
  15. Tom C

    Apisto mix from Colombia

    I've got many beautiful apistos from the Inirida area, Colombia. Here are some of them. But to identify these Apistogramma uaupesi - like beauties, is (too) difficult....
  16. Tom C

    3 Colombian Apistogramma

    Several new forms/species of Apistogramma have been collected in Colombia the last months, and some of them have reached my tanks. I will not reveal anything about the collecting locations, I have therefor given them the preliminary names Apistogramma sp. "D1" to Apistogramma sp. "D6". Two...
  17. Tom C

    Apistogramma cf. cacatuoides (Rio Acre)

    As some of you might have noticed in the "Apisto news" section at my site, I brought back a few fishes from the Rio Acre, Peru in October 2014. I didn't collect them myself, but bought them from a fisherman who had collected them in the Peruvian part (at least he said so...) of the Rio Acre. At...
  18. Tom C

    Collecting.....

    Iquitos, Peru. The Heros' in the exporters outdoor ponds look fantastic: and so do the Rio Itaya, this time of the year: So who is crazy enough to leave this for 12,5 hours downstream on the Rio Amazonas in this "Rapido", just to have loads of challenges with police, papers...
  19. Tom C

    New Apistogramma described: Apistogramma aguarico sp. n.

    Apistogramma aguarico sp. n.: A new species of geophagine cichlid fish (Teleostei: Perciformes) from the Ecuadorian and Peruvian río Napo system. Uwe Römer & Ingo Hahn
  20. Tom C

    New species of the genus Nannostomus is described

    New species of the genus Nannostomus is described: Nannostomus nigrotaeniatus spec. nov. - Ein neuer Ziersalmler aus Venezuela. Axel Zarske. The description can be downloaded HERE. This is the fish which for some years has been labelled Nannostomus sp. "Black". I luckily found a few...
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