Cichla cf. ocellaris "Brokopondo"
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here you go.ado124;4043076; said:more pix please
Both eat frozen krill and frozen silversides like they are going out of style. They are the only pbass that have not taken live black worms or frozen blood though.
A note on getting bass to eat other stuff. Sounds silly but buy more fish of the same size. The two packs I have eat more stuff together than apart by a long shot. If you can swing it buy more fish. I could get my guys to eat plastic pellets for a couple seconds., not that I would.
Is the Brokopondo really worth it's price? It's an ocellaris just from a different collection point. In time they will be able to fish more and the price is sure to drop. There are no restrictions fishing in Brokopondo, right? No aggressive locals who are armed and will not allow you to fish.
What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?
They are not an C. ocellaris. The cf in C. cf. ocellaris mean similar to. And they are only worth it if you think they are worth it.
Anton;4112612; said:
I think that you may not be too familiar with the procedure involved for getting a fish from a lake inside a country with poor networking/accessibility such as Suriname to your tank.
Even if you knew how/where to locate a competent exporter who had connections with fisherman to collect the fish, you would have to consider the base price of the fish (very high), export costs/documentation from country of origin, freight costs from point of origin to US port, import clearance and broker fees at point of entry into US, domestic freight costs to final destination, attrition (losses) of fish in and post transit, etc.
All the above costs amount to a very large sum of money that the average individual hobbyist may not typically take into consideration.
Image that those are fixed costs on the shipment, then calculate losses, travel time, cost of labor for hands on maintenance, feed, etc.
Now are you getting the picture?
