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John (Apistogrammamaster) - I have some time off work (early August to late September) and I am still interested in visiting South America. I am particularly interested in local fish farming as opposed to wild fish collecting and I would love to see some big catfish species being hormone bred. Is this a good time of year to visit? Can you recommend any places/farms to visit or stay? When is your rainy season? Fully prepared to walk through mud and sleep through mosquitoes and leeches. I can also take holidays from early Feb to late March and can wait till next year if that is better. Australian quarrantine laws would prohibit me purchasing any fish but I am also an avid photographer.

I will send you a PM as well.

Thanks in Advance
 
Wow, just read all the way through this and just amazing. That must be quite the life out there, certainly a lot different than the states.

How about send me about 10 free pimas??? :ROFL: kidding haha

It must be incredible to be involved in such a special thing everyday. That looks like a job I would not mind rolling out of bed for in the morning.

I will be staying tuned for more pics and interesting dishes...pleco soup:barf:yummy
 
can you tell us more about how your business works?
-do you have locals do most of the collecting for you? it looks like you might be teaching them how to harvest sustainably
-how much of your inventory is bred on-site? what are your goals? are you focusing on breeding threatened/endangered species? do you actually release back in to the wild?
-where did the initial rays come from if they're not poached?

sorry for all the questions but i just saw this thread and am fascinated by it. you have some operation going on down there!

i just want to have a better understanding of how you operate. it must be extremely challenging to manage relationships with the locals but it looks like you've got the financial + political support

unfortunately for me, it looks like i missed the 'girls gone wild' pictures.

thanks for all the info.
 
Early August would be perfect , By that time we will have our Manatee and freshwater Dolphin rehiblitation center .
fishdance;1773611; said:
John (Apistogrammamaster) - I have some time off work (early August to late September) and I am still interested in visiting South America. I am particularly interested in local fish farming as opposed to wild fish collecting and I would love to see some big catfish species being hormone bred. Is this a good time of year to visit? Can you recommend any places/farms to visit or stay? When is your rainy season? Fully prepared to walk through mud and sleep through mosquitoes and leeches. I can also take holidays from early Feb to late March and can wait till next year if that is better. Australian quarrantine laws would prohibit me purchasing any fish but I am also an avid photographer.

I will send you a PM as well.

Thanks in Advance
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There are no locals that collect Giggas for us anymore. All born and raised here . The locals do collect the the tropical fish for export here. But really I dont make money exporting the Giggas . They sell here for about ten bucks a pound . For consumption . Our goals are to breed as much fish as we can so the locals dont have to fish . But its kind of hard when you have the Amazon as your back yard. But the Giggas are protected , you cant just walk into the market and buy some Giggas meat , well legally at least. Theres no release back to the wild yet . But there are other species that are being re released such as Tiggrinus .
freeskier;1776818; said:
can you tell us more about how your business works?
-do you have locals do most of the collecting for you? it looks like you might be teaching them how to harvest sustainably
-how much of your inventory is bred on-site? what are your goals? are you focusing on breeding threatened/endangered species? do you actually release back in to the wild?
-where did the initial rays come from if they're not poached?

sorry for all the questions but i just saw this thread and am fascinated by it. you have some operation going on down there!

i just want to have a better understanding of how you operate. it must be extremely challenging to manage relationships with the locals but it looks like you've got the financial + political support

unfortunately for me, it looks like i missed the 'girls gone wild' pictures.

thanks for all the info.
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Dang dude, this is amazing. Haha, was getting really heated about the middle of this thread. Cause of your low post count, I thought you quit or something, lol. But this is awesome man. Ever have trouble with parasites in the rainforest? Like those maggots that row in your skin? Lol. I would like to visit some day. :P
 
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