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A. crassippinis

Hi sorry for not mentioning my location, I'm from Southeast Asia. And bumblebee is really rare because maybe the shop owners having trouble with the shipping cost from US or Brazil going here. But lemon and red chilli oscars are plenty here but I am hesistant I have doubt of their lifespan and health because they are not natural breeders feed them something to turn yellow or red. I will try to post some pictures later my oscars are 1" to 1.2"

Thank you
 
Peckoltia said:
Yes, they are meant to stay smaller. This has not been my experience. Mine have outgrown some aquarium strain albinos that I got at the same time.

please excuse the micro bubbles in the pics, was half way through some maintenance when I realised I was meant to take some updated pics.

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I posted a link of a you tube video questioning the size of the bumblebees...from 8" to 18" like ocellatus. People either have bad information or never raised a "bee." Data still seems to be all over the place. Oscars in the picture look like the ones I've seen in public aquariums and those are huge.
 
I have imported thousands of A. crassipinnis. They get equally as large as any other Astronotus. I have had wild adults arrive @ 16".
if a species of 'small growing' oscars existed, it would easily be one best selling species in the trade on a global scale. if we can get small adult sized oscars that also keep juvenile oscar pattern it would be a grand slam! Unfortunately, it does not exist.
 
Brazil was closed to exports for 10 months this year January to October-ish. So not much has come out of the country. What has been coming out since they reopened as been more of the commonly /easily collected species. The 'specialty' species really have began to be offered in any quantities worth the costs of importing. Hopefully, going into 2025 we will start to see more being offered other than plecos and tetras.
The fear is that with the industry having been completely closed for so long is that many of the fisherman likely found other occupations to provide for their families during that time and did not return to the fish collecting business.
 
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