How you can belive such a statement like "it is only one in aquarium trade" You think ashdavid make a special order to collectors for alto tocantis, and they catch only one for one and only ashdavid himself the king of all aimaras....forghet it bro.
Extremly rare 25" Aimara wolf fish "Alto Tocantins"
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Kk, just ...relax asdavid you have no doubt a very nice fish there but I just dont believe it is only one in aquarium trade I now guys here in Montreal and they have all the time like 15-20 aimaras for sale from all over South America , Venezuela, Guyana etc. Just don't forghet is not only you a specialist there are many others...out there.
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But you should also not forget that suppliers from different areas are usually contracted to collect by wholesalers. The aimaras you are seeing are comming from Venezuela which is a completely different area to where the rarer Aimaras are comming from. Obviously Japan has a lot of the contracts and usually gets first dibs on rare fish, although Germany does get its fair share too. There are hundreds of Aimaras from amapa (which I would not consider rare in the true sense of the word) here in Japan which cannot be imported any more, nor can the aimara from Xingu. Of corse same applies to Alto Tocantins. So it is easy to get information from the collectors in that area as to if they have caught a certain fish before and exported it. And this fish was a special order.
So with some confidence I can still say that this is the only one that has been imported from that area.
Oliver Lucanus is only one guy, that is who you are refering to correct? He is most likely the only person importing Aimara into Canada. He has only been getting Aimara as of late, trust me I have been bugging him for years. He also only has Guyana Aimara, his VZ are gone. I know because I have two...
Rare fish, no doubt. But to say that it is the only one in the aquaria is very far fetched. There are many people in the world that collect rare and exotic fish and don't go onto forums and post pics and brag about it.
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