Fish of the Suriname Rapids !

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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2024
  • Retroculus xinguensis is one of the most iconic cichlids of the Xingu rapids. This large, beautifully coloured cichlid dominates the shallow water pepple and bedrock substrates of the Rio Xingu. Check out this amazing in it's natural habitat. Skip forward to the last 7 minutes to see Retroculus xinguensis breeding in nature.
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    Index:
    00:01 introduction Rio Tapanahony, Suriname
    01:01 threats to South Suriname rivers
    01:24 Podostomaceae, the river weed plants
    02:04 habitat in rainy season
    02:30 earth eater, Guianacara in nature
    03:19 Pimelodella habitat
    03:26 Jupiaba in nature
    03:53 Leporinus granti in nature
    04:10 Geophagus harreri in nature
    04:55 Leporinus maculatus in nature
    05:00 Crenicichla multispinosa in nature pike cichlid
    05:35 lighting effects in the habitat
    06:27 Hypomasticus despaxi in nature
    07:05 Conclusion, Rio Tapanahony
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 69

  • @michaela-be4le
    @michaela-be4le Місяць тому +15

    Imagine just spending the whole day exploring in that river 😉

  • @TJ-Adam
    @TJ-Adam Місяць тому +5

    Suriname is where i got hooked on fish when i was a lil boy.

  • @janofe2232
    @janofe2232 Місяць тому +1

    Absolutely wonderful to see footage of my beloved Guianacara in the wild. Thanks for this :)

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому

      glad you like it, they are such nice cichlids!

  • @andicarson1339
    @andicarson1339 Місяць тому +3

    Another captivating video!!! Thank-you!!! I smiled the whole way through, while thinking 'WOW!' through each new school of fish to pass in front of the camera. I am so very glad that you share this underwater part of your life with us!!!

  • @klausoxen6597
    @klausoxen6597 Місяць тому

    Many thanks for sharing, Oliver! Greets from Germany.😊

  • @YannHoiret.Fanatik-discus
    @YannHoiret.Fanatik-discus Місяць тому +4

    Wonderful images! Very interesting. Thanks for sharing from France 🙂

  • @later_daze_4080
    @later_daze_4080 Місяць тому +1

    Great video!

  • @Fishtory
    @Fishtory Місяць тому +6

    Very cool! Has anyone done a necropsy to examine the digestive contents of wild specimens? I'm fascinated by that information with mid sized fish. Thank you for sharing

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому +4

      Yes, there is some work done with isotopes and with gut content of various cichlids in other habitats.

    • @Fishtory
      @Fishtory Місяць тому +2

      @belowwater do you happen to know which university, collection areas or fish are being studied this way by chance?
      I've been very curious and doing research on the gut flora and fauna of fish... everything from yeast, archaea, bacteria, to auwfuchs, biofilms and the things we traditionally think of as " food ".
      It is amazing how often parasites, or symbiotic species are found in wild fish and yet in captivity we clean out their gut biome and feed supposed super foods, only to find the fish are malnourished or ill.
      I'm always curious with algae eaters or sand sifters, what it is they target vs what is ingested due to proximity with the desired prey on the menu... micro crustaceans and algae are often both found but in new tests on plecos, they found that they did not eat uncycled/sterilized algae... but readily ate "cycled" algae... and skipped algae all together if the crustaceans were separated out as well.

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому +3

      @@Fishtory if you search by diet or isotope analysis you should find plenty of papers - there are of course tons of studies on the big food fish such as salmonids, and tropical aquaculture species but there are also some on reef fishes, Amazonian species and Lake Malawi fish. In the case of these sand sifters, they ingest a lot of the bacterial mass that holds debris together on top of the substrate, i think there are some nutritional studies done on that as well.

    • @Fishtory
      @Fishtory Місяць тому +1

      @belowwater thank you Dr.

  • @kenji.23
    @kenji.23 Місяць тому +3

    Awesome thanks for sharing

  • @mfk_didi
    @mfk_didi Місяць тому +2

    You have no idea how valuable your videos are. I am into fish keeping and always try to provide a habitat very close to their natural habitat and your videos are simply priceless. Would you able to assist me with few queries I have regarding Suriname river plants and schooling fish

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому +1

      sure/ the upland has not many plants other than Podostomaceae (River weeds), which should be near impossible to grow in an aquarium

    • @Joe_IBMOR85
      @Joe_IBMOR85 Місяць тому

      @@belowwater there’s a weird plant growing where the water of my DIY filter runs it’s still small but I’m wondering what it will look like in a couple of months

  • @bolborhynchus
    @bolborhynchus Місяць тому

    Beautiful footage as always.

  • @markfranklin8831
    @markfranklin8831 Місяць тому +2

    What a amazing video thanks for sharing

  • @VitRav
    @VitRav Місяць тому +2

    OH OH OH 10/10 I have some

  • @CarlosSalcedo-v5v
    @CarlosSalcedo-v5v Місяць тому +5

    Your videos are so informative and beautiful to watch. You're doing a great educational work, I appreciate it as a fish keeper. I truly hope we can preserve all these ecosystems.

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому +3

      thank you. this is one of the most remote places i have seen, I think it is reasonably safe, unlike northern Suriname that is under huge pressure from logging, mining and industrial agriculture.

  • @DragonfishCanada
    @DragonfishCanada Місяць тому +5

    Wonderful footage and commentary Oliver :)

  • @COOPERSCICHILDS
    @COOPERSCICHILDS Місяць тому +1

    Awesome 👌🏿 👏🏾 👍🏿

  • @roten2902
    @roten2902 Місяць тому +1

    was es noch so alles an tollen fische in der natur gibt, die man in einer zoohandlung so nie sieht...😉👍👍👍

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому +1

      ja, leider - in Nordamerika wird das Sortiment auch immer geringer.

    • @roten2902
      @roten2902 Місяць тому

      @@belowwater danke für deine antwort...😉

  • @ralfpilz5960
    @ralfpilz5960 Місяць тому +1

    Very cool. I had some Suriname Red Spot Cichlid (Guianacara sphenozona 'red spot') and still regret having to rehome them. I love your educational videos. Thanks

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому +1

      yes, they are really fun and not so big.

  • @robertforrest7956
    @robertforrest7956 Місяць тому +2

    🌴Another Awesome and Enjoyable video, Thanks!!! 🌴
    Its so sad all the destruction and fires going on all through South America....😪😪😪

  • @drockingfish
    @drockingfish Місяць тому +1

    wow awesome, more

  • @ediwatdahek
    @ediwatdahek Місяць тому +1

    very interesting, thanks!

  • @vitaliyvyntu4566
    @vitaliyvyntu4566 Місяць тому +1

    Good job!

  • @HenrikLantzHedstrom
    @HenrikLantzHedstrom Місяць тому +1

    Your content is amazing!!!

  • @felixsimonovich6722
    @felixsimonovich6722 Місяць тому

    Amazing and inspiring video! Thank you Oliver!

  • @aquaenthusiast9185
    @aquaenthusiast9185 Місяць тому

    Wonderful! These fish are so cute and nice to watch

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому

      yes, they have all the fun quality of ramirezi except the colour!

  • @vitaliyvyntu4566
    @vitaliyvyntu4566 Місяць тому

    Very interesting

  • @sailo8681
    @sailo8681 Місяць тому

    Amazing

  • @MikeOreilly-gq1fo
    @MikeOreilly-gq1fo Місяць тому

    Great video including a geophagus that was new to me.

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому

      it's one of my favourite Geos, but also big, and i think the most difficult to keep.

  • @Joe_IBMOR85
    @Joe_IBMOR85 Місяць тому

    Thanks for sharing this video I’m a local Fish keeper from Suriname 🇸🇷

  • @-AndrewR
    @-AndrewR Місяць тому +1

    👍🏻👍🏻

  • @charlesdumar8405
    @charlesdumar8405 Місяць тому

    I absolutely love your videos.

  • @aquaracer65
    @aquaracer65 Місяць тому

    Great video as always. The Suriname nature is breathtaking and let’s hope the gold miners and oil companies stay away from this region in the south. The destruction is so depressing. Your videos are wonderful though.

  • @botanicalsblackwaterbeyond8871
    @botanicalsblackwaterbeyond8871 Місяць тому

    Fantastic video, could you tell me the name of the plant on the rocks please I can’t quite make out the name. Tia

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому

      it's a riverweed plant (the family is Podostomaceae), but I am uncertain what species it is. _Mourera fluviatlis_ is kind of similar or this could be it, riverweed plants have many different type of leaf structures depending what growing stage they are in, and during the dry season they only exist as seeds...very tricky.

    • @botanicalsblackwaterbeyond8871
      @botanicalsblackwaterbeyond8871 Місяць тому

      @@belowwater thank you

  • @wh0tube
    @wh0tube Місяць тому

    Stunning video 😍🙏 what was the tiger looking fish @7:08? Leporinus?

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому

      thank you, yes, the real _Leporinus maculatus_ - that name gets used a lot, but this is the actual one

  • @ohheck1144
    @ohheck1144 Місяць тому

    My LFS had just given me some bandit cichlid fry and I was looking around your videos for footage of them in the wild. Mine do look slightly different though (no black on middle dorsal for example), I was wondering if it's a different collection point or breeding that causes this. Timing couldn't have been better and fantastic video as always!

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому +1

      There are 7 _Guianacara_ species across Venezuela-Guyana-Suriname-French Guyana, plus undescribed ones in the Tapanahony in Suriname, and in the Rio Jatapu, Brazil.

  • @karlmartin9525
    @karlmartin9525 Місяць тому

    Do you never swim into huge man size predatory fish

    • @belowwater
      @belowwater  Місяць тому

      the big fish usually occur in water that is not so clear or very deep, and even then likely stay away from something as large as them. Biggest i have seen is P.brachyura. That fish is the same size i am with fins: ua-cam.com/video/7BjRNKJkvPs/v-deo.html