T. sp. guyana: let's have some more
Posted: 10 Aug 2007, 19:47
When we planned our LFS trip to Germany some days ago, we said we'd go to Witten and several shops in Köln (I think it's Cologne for the English speaking world).
However, we didn't include any traffic jams but there were plenty of them. So we didn't reach Cologne at all.
More than three years ago I bought 4 specimen of at Witten.
Two of them disappeared (read: died) pretty quickly; the remaining two were transfered to a smaller and quieter
tank.
I've visited Witten (owned by Mr. Blecha) twice in between and both times I saw the remaining specimen hidden into a piece of wood. The price didn't change over the years and the same goes for the interest in these little Auchenipterids.
So today I decided to buy all the remaining specimen. I thought they deserved a proper tank after all those years in an LFS tank.
Out came 6 specimen (I had counted 5 tails from the wood) and to my surprise they had grown significantly.
I hope that this group contains a few females (the 2 I already had are males) and that I may be able to breed this still very unknown (even to science) species.
Here are some pictures.
Already in the tank in a typical pose:
Just before putting them in the tank. Not the curled and spiked pectoral spines:
Briefly out in the open to show it's not just black:
"At last he gets us out of that sack and now we've been put into a bucket. What kind of fool has bought us"??
However, we didn't include any traffic jams but there were plenty of them. So we didn't reach Cologne at all.
More than three years ago I bought 4 specimen of at Witten.
Two of them disappeared (read: died) pretty quickly; the remaining two were transfered to a smaller and quieter
tank.
I've visited Witten (owned by Mr. Blecha) twice in between and both times I saw the remaining specimen hidden into a piece of wood. The price didn't change over the years and the same goes for the interest in these little Auchenipterids.
So today I decided to buy all the remaining specimen. I thought they deserved a proper tank after all those years in an LFS tank.
Out came 6 specimen (I had counted 5 tails from the wood) and to my surprise they had grown significantly.
I hope that this group contains a few females (the 2 I already had are males) and that I may be able to breed this still very unknown (even to science) species.
Here are some pictures.
Already in the tank in a typical pose:
Just before putting them in the tank. Not the curled and spiked pectoral spines:
Briefly out in the open to show it's not just black:
"At last he gets us out of that sack and now we've been put into a bucket. What kind of fool has bought us"??