Box swap

That's awesome, Duane!

The box swap was a lot of fun and I hope brought some new stuff to your club. It certainly did for ours.

The pindu are from me and the longimanus are from Jon Clark...

I picked up a bag of your Geos...

Best wishes,
Matt

Had longimanus 50 years ago ... loved that fish. Haven't been able to connect with them since. Sounds like a super box swap (jealous )

I think the C. panamensis were a donation from Josh at Batfish Aquatics (http://www.batfishaquatics.com/), who's a CCA club sponsor (and an all around good guy who did the shipping for us)...

Matt

Glad you picked up the longimanus. They were one of those fish that I wanted to keep for a long time and never saw, so when Jeff Rapps collected them in the spring of 2013, I jumped on them. I started with a group of 4 (which actually turned out to be 2 males and 2 females). They started spawning 55about a year after I got them, the male is around 5" and the female half that size. After the first couple of spawns, the pair became very protective and thrashed the other 2 longimanus in the tank. I was also keeping a pair of multispinosis with them, but they were starting to get harassed so I moved them out of the tank before they were killed. My pair is now working on probably their 10th spawn (they spawn about every three weeks). I had a school of lemon tetras in with them that was keeping the fry population down, but they perished over the past few days.

Good luck with them, I'm sure you will have success breeding them in due time. I was eyeing the geos that you sent, but just didn't have the tank space to grow them out. I'm hoping that I can snag a few from Matt once they start to pair off.

Thanks again to you and the other MAS members who participated in the box swap, especially Andy Hudson for coordinating. I think the CCA folks were stoked to get some new fish in the area and were also happy to pass along their spawns to other parts of the country.

notho2000 said:

Had longimanus 50 years ago ... loved that fish. Haven't been able to connect with them since. Sounds like a super box swap (jealous )

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I'd send you some if I had the ability to ship internationally, but not sure how to do that.

Looking good, Duane! Just stripped about 15 babies from one of my pindu a couple of days ago!

Unfortunately, I added the little Geos that I got to a group of other fry a bit too soon. I know where to get more

Matt

The names are all foreign to me except for carpintus and panamensis. I just finished searching them in the web to figure out what they are. This is what fish clubs should do, sharing of species. I currently own a breeding pair of panmensis, the most colorful cyrptoheros species IMO. How are the fish distributed? Will they be offered in auction or club meetings?