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    New book on Mexican fish and biotopes

    New book out on Mexican freshwater biotopes


    Poecilia Scandinavia (the Scandinavian Livebearer Association) has published a wonderful book by Kai Qvist & Rune Evjeberg on freshwater fish biotopes in Mexico. 15 % of the sales price will go directly to conservation projects of Mexican freshwater biotopes through AquaLab in Morelia.




    More info here: http://www.poecilia.org/arkiv/filer/22200994651PM.pdf
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    Those damn Danes publishing books again.. hehe :) well it looks like they are going to want about 325 Danish kroner = 61.4484 U.S. dollars for the book..

    .. and for those who dont know yet.. yes I am a Dane so dont even go there

    What fish do Jesper have
    180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
    110     Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
    58 S. Decorus
    "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher

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      I received my copy of the book today and was more than impressed. There is easily as much textual information as photos so the book works in depth and not just visually as so many fishbooks do today and the photos are lovely. Made me want to go to Mexico. The rich variety of biotopes is amazing. This is no average fish book. There are great shots of X. birchmanni and montezumae in the wild and the authors noticed 3 forms of montezumaes -- the large non-spotted form (we call blue-green I think), a large a little bit black spotted form (the nicest looking one by far)and the smaller heavily black spotted form (we call "Ivory" for some reason). For some reason the large lightly spotted form is rare in the hobby.

      There are lots of Mexican cichlid species shown -- including introduced Jewel Cichlids!

      X. birchmanni looks great in the wild, as does X. variatus and X. multilineatus. Birchmanni should be a hugely popular swordtail. P. orri are fantastic looking, so unlike the usual "shenops" type species. Unfortunately, P. velifera gets short shrift as just "the sailfin molly". How were all these fish species missed by collecters for so many decades early on in the hobby. Where was Myron Gordon looking!

      The biotope photos give you great ideas for tank layouts.

      Luis N. this book is a must for you!

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        Can you call me?
        Cheers,
        Luis

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