Natural Habitat of Kelberi and Azuls

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These are not my videos, but definitely cool.
This one shows some of the biotope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co5Kyg_YVZk
At 43 seconds Theres a big fish swimming away. I thought it was an oscar type species. But it's probably that big non-cichla fish he holds up at the end. Not sure.
At 1:00 min u see another fish. I think it's a hoplias species. Not too sure.

The common plant life looks to be egeria densa.
 
6 bar said:
Kelberi (Tucunare Amarelo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4l4B3hPcTk

Azuls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M9FyR2O8kU
It's kind of like a NEMO story
It looks like kelberi and Azuls are mixed in this video too.
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As the video says, is a Reservoir in the southeast of Brazil, wich means theyre introduced and its not their natural habitat.

''Cichla piquiti , new species, is restricted to the Tocantins river basin, but transplanted in the Paraná river basin in Brazil
and Paraguay'' (Kullander, 2006)

''Cichla kelberi, new species, is restricted to the Tocantins river basin, but also found transplanted
in the Paraná and Paraíba do Sul river drainages and reported from the Nordeste region of Brazil.'' (Kullander, 2006)

But yes, they do live together, and I was speaking with a guy wich worked with then In a reservoir, he said me that kels and azullies have high level of hybridization between themselves.
 
Lucas Fontenele said:
As the video says, is a Reservoir in the southeast of Brazil, wich means theyre introduced and its not their natural habitat.

''Cichla piquiti , new species, is restricted to the Tocantins river basin, but transplanted in the Paraná river basin in Brazil
and Paraguay'' (Kullander, 2006)

''Cichla kelberi, new species, is restricted to the Tocantins river basin, but also found transplanted
in the Paraná and Paraíba do Sul river drainages and reported from the Nordeste region of Brazil.'' (Kullander, 2006)

But yes, they do live together, and I was speaking with a guy wich worked with then In a reservoir, he said me that kels and azullies have high level of hybridization between themselves.
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Thank YOU so much for the clarification. I'm sorry to mislead anyone out there. I definitely do not know portuguese. I'm glad someone who does was able to clarify things. I suppose a better title would be "Kelberi and Azuls: Underwater Invasion." From the video, I could not determine the exact location of this footage except that it was in the South East of Brazil. I could only make some conjectures based on my knowledge of the Spanish language. And I definitely do not know the geography of your beautiful country. My goal would be to create a biotope for kelberi and I thought this footage might help.

Could you make some suggestions as to how the kelberi natural habitat would look? Or maybe direct us to some footage of how kelberi live under water?

My understanding, is that Kelberi are also found in the Mato Grasso region especially where Mato das Mortes meets with Araguia. I do know that the Tocantins converges with the Araguia. Therefore, I imagine that Kullander was talking about the same thing since the water ways are connected. Correct?

I also see that the unknown fish I wrote about was Tilapia.
 
6 bar said:
Thank YOU so much for the clarification. I'm sorry to mislead anyone out there. I definitely do not know portuguese. I'm glad someone who does was able to clarify things. I suppose a better title would be "Kelberi and Azuls: Underwater Invasion." From the video, I could not determine the exact location of this footage except that it was in the South East of Brazil. I could only make some conjectures based on my knowledge of the Spanish language. And I definitely do not know the geography of your beautiful country. My goal would be to create a biotope for kelberi and I thought this footage might help.

Could you make some suggestions as to how the kelberi natural habitat would look? Or maybe direct us to some footage of how kelberi live under water?

My understanding, is that Kelberi are also found in the Mato Grasso region especially where Mato das Mortes meets with Araguia. I do know that the Tocantins converges with the Araguia. Therefore, I imagine that Kullander was talking about the same thing since the water ways are connected. Correct?

I also see that the unknown fish I wrote about was Tilapia.
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No problem guy. I will try to search to you, ok? Im not with time now, but maybe tonight I will search where are their found in Tocantis basin.

If I find, the best is to search some pictures of the rivers or videos. But I dont know if there are some in the internet.

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Here's Tocantins watershed. I think its also from Tocantins watershed, since Araguaia also is.
 
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