Looking for Hoplias Aimara

[channarox]

true true.

 

[yeayeayea]

So I just spoke with an importer of south american cichlids and he has been offered aimara...Problem is they are asking more $$ than he is willing to spend to get these fish...His thought on why they are so rare in the usa is the japanese...The japanese want these fish and pay a premium thus making the fish rare here and driving our cost through the roof.

 

[cichlaguapote]

His thought on why they are so rare in the usa is the japanese...The japanese want these fish and pay a premium thus making the fish rare here and driving our cost through the roof.

Which is probably right.. anyone who knows rare fish knows that we in the U.S. can't compete with asian money/demand for the rare fish.

 

[KRSwop1]

and FYI they are one of the slowest growing fish you can find, if your looking to grow a 30"+ specimen you better by big, i'll take you a LONG time to grow from smaller sizes, not to mention i've never seen them for sale under 12". and anything in the 19-20" range will cost you upwards of 3k for bottom of the line ones. not VZ's or any other area's of collection. good luck in you quest, i've been unsuccesful for a very long time.

Just to correct one thing here. They are infact very fast growing fish. If kept in proper conditions and fed regularly they will grow just as fast as a red sh. My old lacerdae grew from 5 to 17-18 inches in about a year. One of the fastest growing fish I've ever owned. And that wasn't even an aimara. They slow down once they reach around 18" on average.

 

[KRSwop1]

If you really want one, my best advice to you is to find someone in Japan that you trust. Send them the money for one and have them ship it to someone over here in the US with an import lisence, then have them ship it to you. Check to see if they are available first in Japan though first. Aimara aren't rare in the wild, but most of them live in areas that are hard to get to and you also have to keep inmind that many of the countries in SA open and close their export borders a lot. Take brazil for example. Rumor is that they are soon going to allow export of wildlife again fairly soon. This may be a good time to start finding some contacts in Japan.

 

[---XR---]

Just to correct one thing here. They are infact very fast growing fish. If kept in proper conditions and fed regularly they will grow just as fast as a red sh. My old lacerdae grew from 5 to 17-18 inches in about a year. One of the fastest growing fish I've ever owned. And that wasn't even an aimara. They slow down once they reach around 18" on average.

i talked to ashdavid and he said that they are Extremeley slow growing, and he keeps both lacerdae an aimara, mulitple fish from both speices. have you owned aimara or just lacerdae?

 

[---XR---]

The japanese want these fish and pay a premium thus making the fish rare here and driving our cost through the roof.

yup as i said, we are no compition to the asian fish market.

 

[KRSwop1]

They're not as slow as you might think. Ask him how fast his Xingu, Sao Francisco, and Tapajos (same varient as mine) lacerdaes grew. The aimara varient that you're thinking of that grows slow is the Amapa aimara. All his other aimaras have grown at a pretty fast rate. His ulto Tocantins Aimara was my favorite.

 

[---XR---]

They're not as slow as you might think. Ask him how fast his Xingu, Sao Francisco, and Tapajos (same varient as mine) lacerdaes grew. The aimara varient that you're thinking of that grows slow is the Amapa aimara. All his other aimaras have grown at a pretty fast rate. His ulto Tocantins Aimara was my favorite.

alright thanks, my favs his Sao francisco personally, but because his fish forum home is WW i have to go there to see pics of his beasts, he won't post them here.

 

[KRSwop1]

hahaha. It's mine too, but I still got love for MFK. His wolf posts are pretty old though. Not many updates on them lately. Last I heard his Xingu lacerdae was like 23" and that was a long time ago. About a year or so now. Check out the Goliath Wolf Fish thread in the pic forum. There's like 50-something pages on wolves.