Cichla Kelberi 'Sao Paulo' where are they all?

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I will read it right now i know you were not talking to me.I think orinocensis 1 was offended as he came off kind of arrrogant and smugg. if you know the answer than just say so!
 
your right gacercardo its about enjoying the fish and checken out every body elses got temparaly cought up in it!!
 
i have many of things to say...

well first off when i have something to say i say it be that as it is i guess i am considered a prick for sayin what i believe well thats fine even though freedom of speech is my first amendment ill put that aside for now. Second, if the fingers are going to be pointed at me well for all the reasons no one posts here any more thats fine but just remember to all those people who think that im pointing one back and its not the index or pinky. Third there was not such transaction in which people had middle men to obtain there extra cichla, i know this for a fact.

i dont know what happend to acouple of the threads were people had pics of all there yellow labled cichla but this is the closest i could find

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210208

Now let me get down to the facts;

Cichla Kelberi - mmm one of my favorites at least the nice ones HA! anyhow

Did you know? Sao Paulo kelberi are actually NON-native cichla? they have been brought into SP from northern regions in brazil that are much warmer year round. SP's weather is kind of similar to that of say LA or more chaparral areas when you get coastal and is also highly temperate when you get more inland instead of dry and highly mountainous. Unlike norther brazil SP receives a different weather patterns in the seasons than say the amazonas in both rain, heat i also believe that water conditions in such locations would be dramatically different to say that of a evergreen tropical rainforest's. But i dont have proven information to back that up but in other means. here is some more info on SP kelberi.

SP: kelberi have been listen as a trans-locative bass (defi: It has been sent from native regions to fill a niche in another habitat that is either lacking or other reasons, basic definition is to establish a non native creature into new territory) so its not even an original kelberi. How do i know it's translocaive? you may ask. well i have some highly credible and proven statements in this passage right in this image cropped directly out of the cichla spp. (a highly recommended guide for any cichla keeper) check it out
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3638216/Cichla-spp
not to mentions fabricio even said so and he lives in brazil.
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now here we have a map of pretty much alto parana.
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and well why does that even matter you may ask? well it is inland very inland. i dont know too much of were in SP these guys are fished out of but i would think inland over coastal only place semi-coastal that has kelberi would be ceara and maybe the amazon drainage but i dont even recall kelberi being in the amazon drainage. anyhow enough about were they live well we have heard all these great things about them right they turn awesomely yellow and are super rare and pretty much not your ordinary cup of tea, well i agree but now lets move on and talk about there scale.

so i will start this off with your quote on the adult SP wherever George had them imported from. Those dont seem so large to me.
orinocensis1;3830819; said:
this is a pic of one George posted a while back when he had them in stock.
so now i assume you are speaking of SP's, and that this is a picture of one. You states that he had them in stock, now this statement is misleading. It sounds like he actually had that fish in stock and for sale which i believe is incorrect i think Georges intentions where to reference that image as what an adult looks like or possibly what an adult from that batch looks like to make your hopes go up and possibly make you a customer.

Now back on topic you stated that they get big correct?
orinocensis1;3822674; said:
Well I know that James (x-tank) had 1 or a few of them but he is the only other person I seen on the fourm with one.. They were brought in from SharkAquarium last April I want to say? I believe they only impoted about 25 or so. They were just called "cichla sp. yellow" they were only like 2" when they brought them in and in only about 8 months he is almost 12" so he is going to be a big Kelberi. I know some of rapps 2nd and some 1st batchers that are about 12" or a little bigger now. and the 1st batch were around since like september of 2008. Going to be interesting to see him grow :D
well in that quote you did. And i can assure you james had more than 1. what bothers me though is
orinocensis1;3822674; said:
when they brought them in and in only about 8 months he is almost 12" so he is going to be a big Kelberi.
this line.
you leave it totally open ended with no estimated size and you also say:
orinocensis1;3822674; said:
Going to be interesting to see him grow :D
well there are a couple things wrong here. you state it is close to 12in in only 8 months time. Well read here, first according to statistics drawn from 52 specimens used for research the max they found out of 52 cichla kelberi was only 275.5 mm !!! out of 52!! that would be 10.8in! just like scats size. makes sense? dont believe me here is solid proof.
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also, this picture by just looking at it honestly does not look bigger than the fish in the picture below it. or even 12in..


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but you know its okay cause i dont know anything about kelberi and what i said is all a load of horse s.. and as much as i would love to go on and on about this i feel like it's a waste of the 15min it took for me to make this.. i would go into more detail but its not worth it...

chao..

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Thank you very very much to all of you guys, for the threads, the clues, for letting out the ghost from the closet and for letting out some steam.

but whats all the fuss about !!!


just some yellow fishes from a hatcheri, not even being able to reproduce.
 
PS.

From an old guy in scandinavia to all of you :

enjoy your cichla´s spec. kelberi or spec. yellow, or spec. Brazilian Gold.

But !!! dont belive they are wildcaught, or even worth a milion

love you all , peace , go cichla
 
my whole point was istead of telling someome they are an idiot and trying to smear them there are more tactful ways of discusing things i got up this morning and felt like a fool for even saying anything!We are all lucky to have this forum and i for one have just found it and will try to cherish it!!I dont know much at all about cichla and this forum has helped me a great deal already.I also have met people on here we normally would not have a chance to met if not for this forum.Bickering or small things will ensure that it dies! I for one feel lucky to be able to viset this site . I dont know if that makes sense but i felt i needed to say it THANKS every body that is willing to help when asked!!
 
CichlaRyan;3845004; said:
also, this picture by just looking at it honestly does not look bigger than the fish in the picture below it. or even 12in..


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Ok bro aparently you don't have any common sense what so ever.. If you look really really goood at the 2 pics .. a little while after you should notice that Scats pic is more zoomed in then mine? So why would you even compare it?:screwy:

or what if I had the fish in a 10,000 gallon tank? a 12" hell, a 24" fish would look baby in it so If I say its 12" why wouldn't you take my word for it? Why would I lie about something like that?

Yeah I could say a lot of things also but I'm not gonna waste my time either. Just gonna salvage what is left of this thread and hope that people would post nice Info or pics on their sao paulo Kelberi's. PEACE
 
Cichlidgeek;3844609; said:
I got a load of these, like Ryan said. Try looking up the thread Brazilian Gold. That thread revolves around my kelberi that I purchased from George, which Orino, are the same ones you're saying are from Sao Paulo. If you have anything else you want to know then you can PM me :)
--Brian

Here is the link: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211027

Happy reading!!


Brian, glad to see someone else with some sao paulos.Yeah I would love to see pics on how they are turning out. I believe that they are sao paulos and that you do have a load of them. Im sure you also have better connections then me too though lol and like I said I was told there was a limit per person on them, maybe for average Joe's like me that only takes a trip up to SA once every few months :)
 
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