Your Apisto wishlist

[Robdog]

If someone gave you a million bucks and said build a fish room and stock it with your favourite apisto's, which ones would you get???

Even without the million dollar fishroom, which apisto's do you wish you could get here in Aus?

I think one I want the most right now would be Apistogramma sp. "Abacaxis/Wilhelmi" followed closely by Diplotaenia and then some wild Baenschi and Maulbruter.

[Th0mas]

Rob,

Wild caught baenschi has been around, the first lot of them came from SLS and it is parents to all my juvenile baenschi.

Thomas.

[Noddy65]

My dream list...well almost anything really...we have some nice trifasciata in Perth but most of the rest are from the big wholesale suppliers...not much else gets to this side of the country...

Mike

[Robdog]

Wild caught baenschi has been around, the first lot of them came from SLS and it is parents to all my juvenile baenschi.

Thomas.

Yes Thomas I know. And I want them again. :wink: :wink: Nudge nudge I want some of yours! :D

[Robdog]

I love the trifasciata too Mike.

I wouldn't knock back a pair of pucallpaensis either

[wickedglass]

I would love to have and breed a pair of these guys (see link), I think they're absolutely beautiful, and the fact that they're mouthbrooders also makes them unusual for apistogrammas.

http://www.apistogramma.com/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=245&Itemid=47

[Ben]

I want wild cac's!!!!

[DiscusMad]

I want these guys http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c286/discusmad/untitled-4.jpg

[Robdog]

I'm with you Chris. There was nearly some Maulbruter on an SLS shipment a few months ago but they were called Jurua Emerald which is totally different.

I've written to David Soares regarding these guys and all the replies seemed to contain quite a few asterix in reference to Maulbruter care.
If David has trouble keeping them then what hope do we have?!! We can't even get them into the country :lol:

Maybe one day.

[parkap]

Discusmad, is that a nanancara anamola?

My wishlist: Elizabethae. But can't justify the cost until I ahve my fish room set up - aybe 12 months away. So right now I'm extremely jealous of Thomas. (I think there's a bit of that going around...)

p.

[Th0mas]

Discusmad, is that a nanancara anamola?

My wishlist: Elizabethae. But can't justify the cost until I ahve my fish room set up - aybe 12 months away. So right now I'm extremely jealous of Thomas. (I think there's a bit of that going around...)

p.

Given the cost of elizabethae, those few going around might become a one off scenario unless more serious breeders around keeps them going.

Thomas.

[oskastolz]

ditto the maulbruter Chris - awesome......

[DiscusMad]

yes its a male of the Nannacara anomala
the woman is never as priddy

[hengeli]

For me, it would have to be Arua, wilhelmi and wild baenschi in that order of preference, never kept any of these, wanna see these here!! :lol: :lol: C'mon Aquapets!!

[Robdog]

There are a few Baenschi in aquapets at the moment. What are you waiting for?

[oskastolz]

I picked up 3 A. inka 50's on the weekend - whilst possibly not on my radar of favourites originally all the research I have done on these little guys means I am pretty excited about watching their development.........

Hopefully now I will have 1 male and 2 females

[catfishbone]

my wishlist will be appistogrammoides pucallpaensis ... :)

http://www.rva.ne.jp/apisto/jpg/20041203/21477.jpg

[oskastolz]

catfishbone - that is one beautiful fish - anyone seen any in melbourne???.............

[Robdog]

I know that Thomas has bred those guys before but I'm not sure what stage he got them. I think there is another thread around about it.
They are definitely on the to-do-list.

[Th0mas]

Still have them breeding, fry are growing slowly but they're no where as nice as what's in the pic.

When I bought them from the shop, they were small and I gambled on their colour quality (I was fooled by the pic given as well).

Now they've reach full maturity, and honestly you'll be disappointed for the colour.

Here's the url of what came in from the last SLS shipment:

http://rva.jp/apisto/pukarupa.htm

Thomas.

[parkap]

My apistogrammoides were among my losses when I moved house. Very disappointing as both the male and female were of excellent quality.

I've asked kev if he's getting anymore of these and other rarer varieties of apisto in soon at all. He said they cut back on the breeding stock they had and then not long after something went through all the tans and wiped out all their apistogrammoides, so now they have no breeding stock and can't supply. Very sad. He also suggested that SLS are steering clear of the more exotic apisto's for some time. So I guess we can just expect the stock standard stuff coming through.

Luckily BNC at Matraville are still mporting as well. As is Aquapet at Bondi junction where Thomas got his high quality Elizabethae from. (Although if you've seen my post on the "Auburn Aquarium" thread, you'll see I'm not a big fan of Aquapet at all.)

p.

[Microman]

Apisto Diplotaenia.
Apisto Mendezi.
Apisto SP Miua.
Apisto Elizabethae"Super Red"
These 4 species are on my wish list but fortunately i have managed to find and order them from Aquarium Plus in Holland, i am picking them up 18th Nov....Both German and wild stock.

Others on my wish list he is trying to get for me include:
Apisto Blutkehl/Rotkehl.
Apisto Iniridae.
Apisto SP Putzer"Cleaner".
Apisto SP Icana.

I could go on and on as there are that many species i would like.....
Mark.

[Th0mas]

I could go on and on as there are that many species i would like.....

Gotta agree with you Mark, but there's constraints - tanks, wife and my wallet :roll:

Thomas.