Heros salvini

[nutty]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Darth Pike is quite right, but i thought i would throw a spanner in the works to see if anyone would question and notice.

Nice work guys.

@ darth, yes it's a shame really as most salvini you see in the lfs or in hobbyist collections are muddled pairs or aquarium strains. I think the Netherlands and Germany have some of the best populations. These are mainly the colourful red race from the Rio Candelaria.

I believe it's very important to keep the strains pure.

Lee.

 

[nutty]

Your aquascaping skills are out of this world! Have you ever put up a thread on your backgrounds?
The salvini are quite good looking too. What do you plan on doing with the fry?

I done a few threads, unfortunatley the photos may have been deleted. I think all the new backgrounds and aquascapes may be saved for my book, lol.

I won't be raising any fry this time, i will let the balance of nature within the aquarium take its course. I do plan to move them to a dedicated tank, but this hasn't been setup as yet.

cheers,

Lee.

 

[darth pike]

I believe it's very important to keep the strains pure.

I agree with you here. But then I'm also a Westie fan, and I think becuase most Westie keepers were killie keepers as well ... keeping the various races pure was ingrained in us.

I'm one of the few that consider racial hybrids to be hybrids, since the scientific deffination does include racial mixes.

 

[DanG13]

these are some really nice salvini's

 

[pckts]

How tough are these little buggers, do they handle themselves well with the smaller parachromis species? They are really starting to grow on me.

 

[nutty]

How tough are these little buggers, do they handle themselves well with the smaller parachromis species? They are really starting to grow on me.

They would handle themselves well with larger Parachromis sp.

To put it bluntly, they don't take any ****! They are lightning fast.
Spawning pairs should have a dedicated tank really, unless your keeping them in a very large tank. They need respect and their territory requirements taken into consideration.

Lee.

 

[pckts]

Thanks for the info.
Its always the smaller faster aggressive fish that cause the problems. They don't liplock with larger adversaries instead they just use there speed and nip and pester.
I.E. Grammodes, Bartoni, Cubans, Salvinis.

 

[Anubisscott]

Gourgous pair, can't wait for Jeff rapps to get more of these guys. I definently agree about the strains. Been looking again and have yet to see a good and worth while one to grab.

 

[nutty]

A little update.

We now have free swimmers. I was a little worried as i couldn't see the female anywhere. I knew her presence was around, as the male was still patrolling the tree root area. As you can see in the video, after moving the wrigglers around a few times, she had made a safe nest in a upper hole in the tree trunk background.

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Lee.

 

[BC in SK]

Cichlasoma was restricted to the more primitive large scale cichlids

I know this is off topic, Darth, but I am curious to know from where or what have Port Acaras been determined to be somehow more primitive? Is there a fossil record that demonstrates this?

First discovered and first described ---but of course that has nothing to do with whether or not a fish has changed significantly in more recent times or has essentially remained unchanged since ancient times.