I think I'd be willing to purchase wild if somebody raised them to full size and I can buy them that way. Not a full size grown in the wild.So you think my fish are skinny? LOL, opinions are abundant. Not making excuses but they were younger on that picture from a couple months ago and I try not to over feed. But hey I'm willing to listen to any advice my friend. I've never had CB fish only wilds. The longest I kept them were a year and a half. I had to sell them because i was relocating. I use to live in Maryland. Now I'm in Georgia, hopefully this is the last move and I can look forward to your type of success. Anyhow you mention getting your hands on some wild Atabapo. I know someone who brings in really nice fish. I purchased from him twice this year. It would be interesting to see if you could get some to spawn. It definitely would be good for the hobby.
Lionel
Wasn't meaning to hurt your feelings by calling your fish skinny. Sorry about that.
Most any thing recently from the wild always looks a little beat up. Like a cheetah on the discovery channel lol. I was just wondering if they can be turned into adult fish in a reasonable amount of time.
The fish that I have pictured holding up in the bag is 1.5 years old.
If you kept an Altum for 1.5 years and it's not an adult then there's a problem.
I have some wild heckle discus that I have had for 2 years or more that arent full size yet.
I am imagine they are suffering from the same condition. Although they have grown, progress has been slow. Somebody told me this is normal for them. Not sure it's because of this species or because they're from the wild. Since there are not F1 available I guess we will never know.
They survive although they are not doing that well all the time.