Searching for Biotodoma

[Mythic Figment]

I'd contact Snookn21 at http://www.freshwatertropicalfishonline.com/. He used to be a vendor here, and has Biotodoma on aquabid more frequently than I've seen Rapps or Wet Spot get them. See if he has any incoming. Plus, he's down there in Florida. Normally he gets adults in, but if you wanted smaller it couldn't hurt to ask.

They are seasonal though, not commerically bred. Heck, few SA specialist have bred them.

I will do that. I only loosely keep up with Snook's website, so I will definitely pay more attention. And I would settle for adults or juvies. Breeding them is part of the reason I want to get them. I enjoy a challenge and I know only a few people (mostly hobbyists) have been able to get them to spawn.

I got in touch with Wetspot again just for giggles and they responded saying that they get mostly wavrini in and usually only during the summer, which I find to be odd since most SAs are seasonal during winter months (SA summer).


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[darth pike]

Usually I see most of the hard to spawn SA's come in during our spring. I prefer wavrini colors myself, but that's a personal preference.

 

[ryansmith83]

Different cichlids come at different times. Smaller stuff seems to trickle in throughout the year. My Heroina came in April and May. Wet Spot and John/snookn21 both had them a couple months ago. Occasionally I see them at Daytona Aquarium. As darth pike pointed out, they are not commercially farmed, so you won't see them around here in any great numbers like you do with heckelii, G. altifrons, or Bolivian rams.

 

[Mythic Figment]

Different cichlids come at different times. Smaller stuff seems to trickle in throughout the year. My Heroina came in April and May. Wet Spot and John/snookn21 both had them a couple months ago. Occasionally I see them at Daytona Aquarium. As darth pike pointed out, they are not commercially farmed, so you won't see them around here in any great numbers like you do with heckelii, G. altifrons, or Bolivian rams.

Okay. Well I will keep an eye out for them over the next few months. Hopefully score some wilds without having to pay an arm and a leg for shipping.

Usually I see most of the hard to spawn SA's come in during our spring. I prefer wavrini colors myself, but that's a personal preference.

I really like both species, but my preference leans towards the wavrini colors too.



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