Beautiful! I keeping similar species for past 16 years, Cribroheros Rostratus, got it group from Jeff Rapps many moons ago.
@nofear6235Ай бұрын
amazing footage, thank you!
@cichlidsinthewildАй бұрын
I am happy you enjoyed it, thanks for the compliment.
@huruhoorooАй бұрын
Lovely little cichlids. Their habitats seem to be the barren rocky areas, almost desert looking, without any greeneries to hide from predators.
@cichlidsinthewildАй бұрын
Yes they are. They breed in colonies and are therefore strong together against predators. Thanks for your nice comment.
@Becket1969Ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this piece of paradise! 😍
@cichlidsinthewildАй бұрын
Thanks Becket, fine you enjoyed it.
@minityper3 ай бұрын
REistips? Welk hotel etc.?
@cichlidsinthewild3 ай бұрын
From Dare-salaam you fly to Sumbawanga where you can book several hotels Countrie hotel contact and make reservation by Liemba beach resort how will arrange transportation aswell. Liemba beach resort contact information you find on internet. Have fun
@minityper3 ай бұрын
@@cichlidsinthewild top
@taylorcaudil80583 ай бұрын
Is that a cyprochromis at 0:50? Amazing looking fish.
@geoffbreen23863 ай бұрын
Some truly beautiful fish. I was interested to see a Pandanus species growing along the edges of the rivers and streams. I did not realise Pandanus occurred in Zambia. The oldest specimens grow tall, looking a little in shape like Christmas Tree. The related species in Madagascar are known as Coniferoid Pandanus, because of the symmetrical/conifer like shape. As they grow taller the leaves reduce in size. There are separate male and female plants in Pandanus. It could be that the tallest in your video are male plants. Most Pandanus are wind pollinated so the taller males would have the advantage of distributing their clouds of dust like pollen far and wide on the wind.
@thebiotopes3 ай бұрын
Awesome footage! What is that invasive submerged plant (14:25)? Thank you! Subscribed.
@cichlidsinthewild3 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment, that aquatic invasive plant is Hydrilla verticillata. I found them in several rivers in CR.
@thebiotopes3 ай бұрын
@@cichlidsinthewild Thank you very much. I keep biotope aquariums and have a set up based on the San Carlos River basin in CR.
@dwbonbon33703 ай бұрын
It's a privilege to see footage of the Moliwe River. The two dwarf cichlid species you show are so beautiful and interesting to keep and breed. It surprises me that the river appears surprisingly somewhat poor in its makeup, is very sandy, with little plants and fairly poor visibility; everything is covered in muck. It is well documented that in the last 20 years the area around the river has been transformed to palm oil. I wonder how the river has changed, how the underwater shots would have been different when it had more of a canopy over it. Love your video. What i would give to have gone there!
@cichlidsinthewild3 ай бұрын
Thanks DW, yes that problem you see everywhere. In Costa Rica the same along the banana plantation’s the removed the low vegetation so the rainwater has a free play with the soil. But anyhow I have seen it wurse. I still have a longer movie from Ghana and Cameroon how I also will place on my account. In that movie you will see match more of this beautiful river and many more rivers around the country. Best regards and thanks again for your positive comment. 👍
@InspiringSid4 ай бұрын
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@Fishtory4 ай бұрын
Brilliant footage and information. Thank you!
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks Fishtory for your compliment, and good to hear you enjoyed the video.👍
@Worsky6664 ай бұрын
really nice video no matter the conditions of the water. Thank you for sharing.
@socialcampus64 ай бұрын
Respect you from Türkiye with love🤝
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks social campus 👍
@denis77734 ай бұрын
It was a great video! Good editing and interesting biotopes for filming Neotropical cichlids.
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks Denis.👍
@amx18204 ай бұрын
Amazing as usual. I think I spot parachromis dovii in the first half of the video
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks AMX yes you did indeed spot P. dovi.
@amx18204 ай бұрын
@@cichlidsinthewild do you have videos documented on p.dovii
@BiotopeAquariumTV4 ай бұрын
Great work. Thanks
@GreenCanvasInteriorscape4 ай бұрын
What a terrific summary of a fascinating species, the one that introduced me to cichlid breeding. Are the color morphs that were seen in the hobby years ago such as Kongo, calico and Honduran red point seen anywhere in habitat? I have a 15-year-old video of my Honduran red points on my channel. Congratulations on getting to explore Costa rica, the fish and the plants and with excellent narration and the music at 36 minutes was punctuation.
@bees83904 ай бұрын
The former two to my knowledge have not been found in the wild. The "honduran red point" variant was collected in 1989. In my own personal research and experimentation I have found that the gene that makes them blue is a polygenic (for the most part recessive) mutation, similar to that found in the electric blue acaras. I believe they happened to find a small population of these recessive blue individuals, not as extreme as they are now, but enough to stand out and be collected, and later be bred into what they are today. This "true" honduran red point was originally collected from the Rio los almendros, which is a tributary of the Rio patuca that runs through the town of Danli (hence where you will see "rio danli" thrown around).
@srwordsussecuaces63744 ай бұрын
Wonderful video! Enjoyed it from beginning to end! Have you ever encountered any wild specimens of Cribroheros Rythisma in Costa Rica?
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thank you, I only have seen one in the Rio Cocotis typelocatie of C. Rythisma, but I have seen many in Panama.
@mental_projector4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@kasperkjrsgaard14474 ай бұрын
What a great piece of work. Just amazing - and I’m only 15 minutes into this video. 😃👌
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks Kasper, hopefully you enjoyed the full video.
@kasperkjrsgaard14474 ай бұрын
@@cichlidsinthewild I most certainly did, and took the liberty to share it on a national aquarium page on Facebook. I will be looking into more of your videos here on KZbin.
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks there is a lot of inspiration to find for aquarist’s to mimic a beautiful habitat. And that’s my intention with this channel.
@MarcoIsidori4 ай бұрын
Hi Hans! You did a wonderful report on the species of the Amatitlania genus! Of course, wild specimens are spectacular in their native habitats. Happy Sunday
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks allot Marco. I am happy you enjoyed the video.😊
@dnbiotopes4 ай бұрын
Beautiful and very insightful video! Thank you 🙏 Is there a name of the small tributary where you find the breeding pair if of A. Myrnae? At 38:10
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your nice comment. That location is stil in the Rio Cocotis, just a site pool. This location is the type locality of A. myrnae but more of this species in an other video.
@dnbiotopes4 ай бұрын
@@cichlidsinthewildThat's very interesting! I'm very interested in that video, since I'm building a biotope around the A. Myrnae. Is that video in making, and not released, or somewhere else on the web I haven't found?
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
@@dnbiotopesto edit a video of A. Myrnae is on my list. But the habitat of A.myrnae is the same as the habitat of the convict out of the Rio Cocotis. But in the near future I will make a video of A.myrnae
@dnbiotopes4 ай бұрын
Do you have any data on the Rio Cocotis, by the way?
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
If you mean waterparameters, no I don’t.
@mattkinsella98564 ай бұрын
This is fantastic and so enjoyable to watch. One thing would've been useful, which is the water parameters in each location, TDS, temperature and pH. I'm not complaining though because this video was so good.
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks Matt, I am happy you enjoyed the video.
@A_Z7164 ай бұрын
You do for this world really a lot! Thank you.
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Yes AZ there is a lot of work in a video like this, but feels good with all this nice comments. And I hope people will find inspiration for setting up their aquarium. Thank you aswell.
@Superkuh24 ай бұрын
I don't even really care about cichlids but the way you present them and their environment is somehow fascinating. Just the right amount of geographical info and local quadcopter establishing shots to really make the detailed underwater stuff feel like part of a unique place. And that's not even mentioning the beautiful underwater video.
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Wow nice comment, thanks allot. Feels good after 3 months of work.
@joer75124 ай бұрын
Gonatodes albogularis
@HenrikLantzHedstrom4 ай бұрын
Thank you! 😍
@twasbrillig334 ай бұрын
you are an invaluable resource Hans
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks Twas, I hope with this video that the aquarists will find inspiration to mimic a beautiful habitat for their beloved cichlids.
@mkuc69514 ай бұрын
amazing footage. 👏👌👌
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks, 🙏
@erikrobbertsen5304 ай бұрын
Great info and video, which i will watch completely soon.
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Thanks Erik. I hope you will enjoy it.
@geoffbreen23864 ай бұрын
The diversity is amazing. I had never heard of "scale eaters" before.
@DEXTER-TV-series4 ай бұрын
What is the temperature of the water at depth? *Why do African cichlids need warm water if they swim at a depth of several hundred meters?!*
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
At Wikipedia you find your answer. Check Lake Tanganyika, Water characteristics. The water temperature is at that depth nearly the same. Below 150 meter is no oxygen in the water and therefore no fish check Wikipedia
@minityper4 ай бұрын
sje topfilm en uitleg
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
Dankjewel
@mickem43224 ай бұрын
Amazing video, Thanks for sharing it with us !! :)
@cichlidsinthewild4 ай бұрын
I am happy you enjoyed the video. Thanks
@zeeman98235 ай бұрын
very nice video👍👍
@cichlidsinthewild5 ай бұрын
Thanks
@stephenbreen75705 ай бұрын
Awesome video
@cichlidsinthewild5 ай бұрын
Thanks Stephen.
@geoffbreen23865 ай бұрын
Nice to see that diversity, even in shallow water.
@geoffbreen23865 ай бұрын
Beautiful. The drop off from the sand into the abyss is daunting.
@geoffbreen23865 ай бұрын
I know little about these fish. It appears Cichlids dominate in numbers and diversity. I find it hard to understand how so many algae eaters exist, but what do fish eat in 30+ metres when the sunlight cuts out? Are there Cichlids in truly deep water there? Are some species even cannibalistic? But what other types of fish are there? This is the first Lake Tanganyika video I've watched. So many questions......
@wkunique5 ай бұрын
I don't think it was Dubois, the one with the yellow belt, without the blue-gray head, it looks more like a Kiryza-mboko (?)
@cichlidsinthewild5 ай бұрын
Yep you’re right I corrected it already on my Facebook account. It’s a Tropheus moorii kiriza , but as I already mentioned escape from the fisherman during offloading. Thanks anyway for mentioning my mistake.
@wkunique5 ай бұрын
@@cichlidsinthewild the worst thing is that the natural environment of Lake Tanganyika is not only overfished by fishermen, sometimes turning it into a "sad desert" in some places, but the irresponsible release of species from other parts of the lake into new places is the beginning of unnatural hybridization, which is so condemned when takes place in aquariums throughout the Tanganyika community.. Thanks for your Job
@Lucas-qg8cz5 ай бұрын
Cómo se adapta la naturaleza a nuestros descuidos😢...
@nategabig6 ай бұрын
Amazing Video…from my travels across Africa I’d never have thought to bring a mask and fins! Isn’t this lake where Gustav the man-eating crocodile lived? How prevalent are crocs there where you dive?
@cichlidsinthewild5 ай бұрын
Hi, it’s not always save to dive and ore snorkelling in Africa. There are many diseases in the rivers and lakes like Bilharzia. I have seen many crock’s but mainly in the rivers. In the lakes the are mainly active around the river deltas where the rivers flow into the Lakes. Unfortunately I couldn’t get them on video I mean off ours the smaller ones 🤪best greetings
@imrichdo6 ай бұрын
Between 2:50 /3:00 an old can can be seen at the bottom of the river.
@dannyaquatics6 ай бұрын
Great video my friend.
@cichlidsinthewild6 ай бұрын
Thanks Danny 👍
@Emilvisan6 ай бұрын
Very nice film, but the goby in the video is also interesting. What species is it Hans?
@cichlidsinthewild6 ай бұрын
Hi Emil, thanks for your compliment. If you mean the goby around 3:20 that’s what I mentioned Sicydium salvini how is common in Costaricans rivers.
@Emilvisan6 ай бұрын
@@cichlidsinthewild Nice goby, do you know how I can get it?
@cichlidsinthewild6 ай бұрын
No mate, will be difficult as there is no export allowed of live animals out of Costa Rica even it is a difficult fish to keep the become very slim and will finally dye. we tried from Panama
@Emilvisan6 ай бұрын
Too bad, it's beautiful. Maybe it would work to try one more time. maybe together we can keep it. But you know how it is better. @@cichlidsinthewild
@thebiotopeblog14606 ай бұрын
That is an interesting and obviously effective net design. What materials did you use to construct it with the deep pocket?