Damnit damnit damnit we didnt get the order in time! Importer said theres a big chance that the fish were sent to germany.... C'mon germans, share!
Hahaha ik right
From DJ/MC Decker
info on temensis sp 'salvador' and sp 'bahia' please
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Hahaha ik right
From DJ/MC Decker
so didn't get to order the salvadors but a friend managed to get some of the cichla temensis "bahia" ill post pics maybe tomorrow or the next day of the 4 inch fish. im thinking it would be a pinima since there are no temensis in the state of bahia in brazil. i saw it this morning just arrived from transport so i didnt take a pic yet. but it does have the body shape of temensis/pinima. ill also paste here what paul reiss of acuteangling.com had to say when i asked him the same question regarding these fish..
"Cichla temensis’ range is indeed restricted to the Central Amazon lowlands (in the Northwestern part of Brazil and the Orinoco basin in Columbia and Venezuela). It is not found in either Salvador or Bahia (other than in fish tanks, perhaps). C. pinima however, is found farther east in blackwater Amazon tributaries almost to the mouth of the Amazon. This is likely what’s being referred to. For more information about these species, see here; http://www.acuteangling.com/taxonomy/peacock-bass-species.html
For their natural ranges, see here; http://www.acuteangling.com/Maps/Peacock-bass-maps.html"
Paul Reiss
"Cichla temensis’ range is indeed restricted to the Central Amazon lowlands (in the Northwestern part of Brazil and the Orinoco basin in Columbia and Venezuela). It is not found in either Salvador or Bahia (other than in fish tanks, perhaps). C. pinima however, is found farther east in blackwater Amazon tributaries almost to the mouth of the Amazon. This is likely what’s being referred to. For more information about these species, see here; http://www.acuteangling.com/taxonomy/peacock-bass-species.html
For their natural ranges, see here; http://www.acuteangling.com/Maps/Peacock-bass-maps.html"
Paul Reiss
thanks! hopefully supplier from brazil won't post falsey labels and hopefully i can still get some 
thanks! hopefully supplier from brazil won't post falsey labels and hopefully i can still get some
Yeah, I never personally heard of a 'Bahia' tem or pinima before but if any other bass makes it down there then it would be pinima. I always thought kelberi and azul were just from Bahia though..
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here is the bahia 1 day after its arrival. my friend got two pieces and hopefully we can pinpoint if it is a tem or a pinima. i say too soon to tell. but i haven't seen a pinima before. so.. what you think?
They look like the pinimas in the juvi cichla I'd sticky thread to me. But I've never kept a pinima only a tem.
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