3 Dwarf Cichlids in nature : Apistogramma, pike cichlids and checkerboard cichlid in nature

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Checkerboard cichlids, pike cichlids and Apisto dwarf cichlids live closely together in this shared habitat, check out how Dicrossus, Crenicichla and Apistogramma live in nature. This type of small, clearwater creek is a typical habitat for these fishes, but they can also be found in slightly larger, shallow rivers. Some 500m downstream this creek enters the Rio Orinoco main branch near the confluence of the Rio Orinoco and Rio Atabapo.
Index:
0:00 Introduction - the 3 dwarf cichlid habitat in Venezuela
1:13 checkerboard cichlid in nature, Dicrossus gladicauda / Dicrossus filamentosus
2:55 Crenicichla spec. "Orinoco dwarf" the dwarf pike cichlid in nature
6:18 Apistogramma megaptera in nature , Apistogramma breeding in nature
8:54 another new pike cichlid: Crenicichla sp. small teardrop in nature
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APISTOGRAMMA in nature - • BLACKWATER! APISTOGRAM... ( Apistogramma alacrina )
BLACKWATER APISTOGRAMMA - • BLACKWATER! APISTOGRAM... ( Apistogramma psammophila )
BLUE RAMS in nature - • BLUE RAM - RAMIREZI CI... ( Mikrogeophagus ramirezi )
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@rpliegos Жыл бұрын

Awesome documentary! I really enjoy watching the fish in their natural habitat. It is amazing how clear the water is. I have just been to the Peruvian Amazon and it was impossible to see any fish, I was only able to spot some Mesonauta near the surface close to a fallen tree. I loved the Satanopercas at the end of the video as well!

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

it is much more tricky to find clear water in the Amazon lowland, in around Iquitos you have to go deep in the forest where small Terra Firme streams are - 10-15cm deep and with clear water, but there are very few places with deep clear water, you have to get much closer to the mountains for that.

@MakoyUnggoy Жыл бұрын

I don't care if you use new or old footage as long as you keep showing natural habitats like these. Seeing Cichlids going about their everyday business is always great to watch, thanks!

@Gaaraape Жыл бұрын

This channel is a goldmine

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@nithinmohan385 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍

@simpernchong Жыл бұрын

Amazing video!!

@vitaliyvyntu4566 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@tommyandersen7798 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@dynamicdeadhead Жыл бұрын

COOL FOOTAGE!!! 🤩

@yiheng5318 4 ай бұрын

Really good job🥳

@bhagyamaithripala6642 Жыл бұрын

That is fantastic

@michaela-be4le Жыл бұрын

Always so interesting and educational O 👍

@uncleknife9887 Жыл бұрын

In my opinion, Apistogrammas are the closest thing that Central & South America has to the African Cichlid. Thank You for your amazing footage, you rock man. God Bless You!

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@helenchambers9357 Жыл бұрын

Loved seeing these wee fish in their natural habitats. I’m picking up my first pair of checkerboards this week, and every bit of information is helpful. So cool seeing them flip leaves, I have added a heap of oak leaves to the aquarium, hope they like them.

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

yes, they do it in the aquarium also!

@helenchambers9357 Жыл бұрын

@@belowwater picking them up tomorrow, so excited to be getting them. They are fairly rare in NZ, there’s been one import recently but I think that might be it. I first saw them on your videos and thought they looked great in the wild, so you are definitely responsible for them coming to me!

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

@@helenchambers9357 good luck, get them a lot of space, and try not to keep them too hot, that way they live longer. I just set up an aquarium with D.warzeli (one of the other 3 Dicrossus species found in the Rio Tapajos basin).

@helenchambers9357 Жыл бұрын

Mine are D. maculatus. Thank you for the information, I like to learn as much as possible about new fish, preferably from people who actually know what they are talking about! When I first started keeping fish, a loooong time ago, I had Axelrods Encyclopaedia of Freshwater Fish and that was it. Now there’s easy access to so much information, which is fantastic, but also a lot of misinformation.

@DS-ge7sk Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@ralfschnippkoweit9596 Жыл бұрын

I like this dwarf pike cichlids ! Thanks for sharing

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@popparock6506 Жыл бұрын

beautiful! TY!

@vandebaoeverywhere Жыл бұрын

This comment form Việt Nam 🇻🇳

@paulstingray Жыл бұрын

Very cool

@Hummingbirder1 Жыл бұрын

I think the quality of this video was very good!

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

the newer videos and cameras are just a lot nicer, but it is great that people get to see this stuff.

@terencerose1212 Жыл бұрын

Oliver your a true inspiration for Ichthyology :)

@Jo-kw9mz Жыл бұрын

Beste Videos, gerade für die Biotop-Aquaristik Gold wert👍👍👍

@m4l4ch1 Жыл бұрын

Tremendous pictures of fish in their natural habitats with great Information about their behaviour and eating habits. 👌🏻

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

thank you. i am thinking to make the whole channel available in German.... maybe translation instead of winter holidays!

@PlainsPup 2 күн бұрын

So enlightening!

@drockingfish Жыл бұрын

Great info! thanks for sharing

@4wheelvfr Жыл бұрын

Great video! I kept getting distracted by those beautiful satanoperca.

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

yes, i will have a video with some more footage of them in the future.

@MM-zt3lc Жыл бұрын

Lovely videomaterial and very informative also.

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@djcmission Жыл бұрын

More inspiration for my 40 breeder. IMHO it is the best size for a planted and fun to watch community tank.

@kjeaquatics Жыл бұрын

Love your content bro

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

great, thank you!

@araticum2 Жыл бұрын

Magnificent. Thanks for the vídeo ❤

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

@thenaturalaquarium3446 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant and most helpful. Your depiction of natural environments helps us immensely in our efforts to develop natural aquariums.

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@alekkoomanoff7281 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for being such a superb resource.

@michael_mayer Жыл бұрын

Dein Kanal ist so hammer! Gruß aus Heidelberg! 💪💪

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

Danke!

@Smoothcity Жыл бұрын

We need to create a fish hall of fame so we can introduce Oliver to it

@yoonbroadcasting6263 Жыл бұрын

다양한 물고기가 많네요! 😲👍👏🏻😃

@caminacolara6472 Жыл бұрын

I love your videos

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@klausoxen6597 Жыл бұрын

😊👍

@aquireeverything9382 Жыл бұрын

The quality was perfect, because the behavior was clear to see. Thanks for sharing this!

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@apanhaesta Жыл бұрын

Amazing as usual! Thank you

@longschlong5341 Жыл бұрын

Great videos, keep em coming Oli 😀

@jimmyj.a-r.afishroom1290 Жыл бұрын

I love your videos! Great job!!

@mickem4322 Жыл бұрын

Awesome fish and Awesome Video !!

@aquaneptun5653 Жыл бұрын

Superb !

@markfranklin8831 Жыл бұрын

This video is super cool thanks for sharing 💯👍✌️

@DW7887 Жыл бұрын

Combined with you commenting on such a high level, the quality is totally fine - I don´t come here for the cinematic views. I hope this habitat still exists? Geolocation?

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

yes, it is fine, near the army base at San Fernando do Atabapo (Venezuela), i saw it several times over 10 years, nothing changed.

@mingbritson 10 ай бұрын

awesome!!!

@svenwiberg2563 Жыл бұрын

Super coool video ! and commentary rly helpful.

@TheJake76 Жыл бұрын

What a dream to be able to do this

@arcadiobuendia4059 Жыл бұрын

I’m so happy to discover your channel. I love your videos!

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@roten2902 Жыл бұрын

thank...

@CypressPhotoStudio Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

@sekocanlahobimbalk668 Жыл бұрын

süperr

@amx1820 Жыл бұрын

These are amazing footage, personally, I don't mind the video quality at all

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

thank you. the videos filmed with modern digital cameras are a lot nicer... but we are almost through all the old footage.

@amx1820 Жыл бұрын

@@belowwater old is gold. Many rivers wouldn't be the same now

@MaxPower-uq4sz Жыл бұрын

once again a great documentary. thank you very much for your work and expertise!

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@manadel9350 Жыл бұрын

Tolong bahas tentang snakehead atau chana🙏🙏

@thebiotopeblog1460 Жыл бұрын

Oliver, do you still have copies of the book available? I don’t see any link to purchase in the description and the link on your website doesn’t seem to work.

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

I do, write me directly from belowwater.com and i will send you info. We are reprogramming it for the new book so i have not updated it.

@IncogPollywog Жыл бұрын

Would you happen to know what species the fish are at the beginning of the video with the black upper tail?

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

the opening sequence? It is Moenkhausia lepidura or M.dichroura, one of several Moenkhausia that has that flag tail. They are in the open water in many habitats in South America

@Unknown-1709 Жыл бұрын

What EU distributor do you have for the book Aamazon below water?

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

we are working on it!

@ajorieb4592 Жыл бұрын

Do you think it's possible to keep Checkerboard and Apistogramma together in a 90 gallon aquarium with plenty of hiding spots?

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

maybe, if you choose one of the smaller, less aggressive species it should work. A bit bigger size would be better. Or a 90 gallon with a 6x2' footprint.

@grbenavides Жыл бұрын

Oliver, is your book still available in the U.S.?

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

yes write me from belowwater.com

@carlosantunez2959 Жыл бұрын

Hello I’m interested in buying a book but I don’t found it in the page

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

hi Carlos, email me with your location from my website (belowwater.com) I will try to get it to you. We are rebuilding the website to add a shop but it will take a bit more time.

@sigspearthumb9574 Жыл бұрын

Hi so I have a 120L tank with blue emperor tetra and bronze Cory. I’d like to go for fish from the area/ river of the blue emperor. What fish would you recommend? The naitve Cory are a bit ugly

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

if you mean _Inpaichthys kerri_ , you have limited choice from Rio Arapiuana, but they are very nice - just rare and expensive. _Corydoras gracilis_ and _C.zawadskii_ come to mind. I think you can go with more general species from the Mato Grosso, like _C.gossei_ or _C.sterbai_ and they should be easier to find and not as expensive.

@sigspearthumb9574 Жыл бұрын

@@belowwater thanks. I’ve looked at tetra from the area and found some nice ones. Are there any apistogramma in the area other than chingarno ?

@sigspearthumb9574 Жыл бұрын

@@belowwater also the only Cory I saw when looking was an sp.2 which didn’t look great. But your expertise is definitely better than Google’s

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

@@sigspearthumb9574 there really is not much, it is a bit too far upstream, even sp."Chingarno" is more a lowland Rio Madeira fish. You would likely find Aequidens in the habitat, not Apistogramma. I have been to the Aripuana but not caught Inpaichthys there, they are not near the huge waterfall that is the famous feature of the Aripuana.

@sigspearthumb9574 Жыл бұрын

@@belowwater ok. Are there apisto in the area? Even in other rivers streams etc ? I’m not being too strict on what fish I have in the tank just thought it be cool to have fish from roughly the same area

@OkNoBigDeal Жыл бұрын

Wait wait wait. A dining room table in a LA mansion or a dining room table in a 300sqft New York apartment?

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

depends on the male, the lawyers have the cocobolo executive desk size. Really i think that the territory depends on the natural boundaries, if it is between two huge fallen trees with open view it is bigger, if the surface complexity is higher than the territory is smaller.

@plecocicho Жыл бұрын

@@belowwater thats why you use metric measures . ;). Quite a large territory for such a small fish. Low nutrients and biomass of prey has a role in it. Those S. daemon were absolutully gorgeous.

@majorbruster5916 Жыл бұрын

Yes, awesome footage in some very clear water. Three of my favorite dwarf cichlids in one locality, and catching them spawning must have been either serendipitous or just good planning. Lots of useful information for us dwarf cichlid keepers, which you cannot always find in books. Just one question : how big is your dining room table, Oliver?

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

Thank you. The territory size depends a bit on the complexity of the territory. If a male can see other ones, the territory is bigger. If there are convenient trees etc that act as natural borders, they may use much less space. A standard would be 2m/6-7' and usually from the riverbank down to around knee deep water. After that larger fish take over the space.

@majorbruster5916 Жыл бұрын

@@belowwater Which just reminds us that we keep our dwarf cichlids in tanks that are way too small for them to behave naturally. Interesting in what you said about apistos territory, I was planning a project on female choice and territory quality in Apistogrammas when my department was closed down and we had to relocate to another college. There, I couldn't get the funding for the project because it wasn't considered progressive enough for the department's profile. But the genetics of coprophilic fungi was! Needless to say, I didn't go into genetics. Thank you for the information, always good to learn something.

@mason5557 Жыл бұрын

𝐩𝓻Ỗ𝓂Ø𝓈Ｍ 🌟

@blueringoctopuss Жыл бұрын

Ankle to knee deep and size of a dinning room table😂

@belowwater Жыл бұрын

at least I don't have to give weight in stone or depths in fathoms - the dining room table DRT will be the new standard when measuring fractions of TCs (tennis courts)