Caquetaia umbriferus (or C. umbrifera as we may see in print lately because that is more nomenclaturally agreeable in terms of gender specifics) seems like a great subject for this month's trivia contest.
As some of you may have noticed, I am lucky to have recently imported wild adolescent umbies directly from Colombia.
It is no understatement to admit this has been a request of mine from Colombian exporters for nearly 20 years.
Cichlid savvy exporters are familiar with this species upon viewing photos I've provided for review. However, they would invariably inform me that due to hostile guerilla activity in the regions where they know umbies to inhabit, specific collection of this species had been impossible.
Until now, that is.
Umbies have been my favorite cichlid species for perhaps the past 25 years, although I didn't actually keep any until about 1990.
The first reply in this thread to correctly answer the below questions will receive a free wild 6-7" umbie on an order.
1) How many breeding pairs of umbies did I maintain in 1996?
2) Some time ago, I wrote about this majestic cichlid for a publication in which the full title of that article was __________ ?
3) Two well known US cichlid keepers of years past 'discovered' this species as 'contaminants' among other wild Colombian cichlids in what year?
4) For years, the green or Panamanian variant of umbie was known in the trade by it's German name. What is that name?
5) Whose arm is that below?!
As some of you may have noticed, I am lucky to have recently imported wild adolescent umbies directly from Colombia.
It is no understatement to admit this has been a request of mine from Colombian exporters for nearly 20 years.
Cichlid savvy exporters are familiar with this species upon viewing photos I've provided for review. However, they would invariably inform me that due to hostile guerilla activity in the regions where they know umbies to inhabit, specific collection of this species had been impossible.
Until now, that is.
Umbies have been my favorite cichlid species for perhaps the past 25 years, although I didn't actually keep any until about 1990.
The first reply in this thread to correctly answer the below questions will receive a free wild 6-7" umbie on an order.
1) How many breeding pairs of umbies did I maintain in 1996?
2) Some time ago, I wrote about this majestic cichlid for a publication in which the full title of that article was __________ ?
3) Two well known US cichlid keepers of years past 'discovered' this species as 'contaminants' among other wild Colombian cichlids in what year?
4) For years, the green or Panamanian variant of umbie was known in the trade by it's German name. What is that name?
5) Whose arm is that below?!
