uruguay

It's always a challenge to quarantine new straight from the wild fish from Uruguay. They always come down with ich. Hard. And the fish, especially Gymnogeophagus balzanii, are in the shape that you'd expect fish that have been living in buckets on the road would be, need some TLC. Here's...

Headed back to Uruguay in early Dec for 9 days of vacation and fish collecting with a great group of folks from CA, NC and former CCA President and all-around-good-dude Tony Horos. This will be my fourth trip and look forward to visiting some new places, re-visiting some of my favorite ones...

I'm honored that John and the CCY crew have invited me back to share my experiences on collecting in Uruguay for their June 28 meeting. I'm going to make some changes to the program that I debuted at CCA a few weeks ago, so there will be some nice new stuff to see and hear about. CCY puts...

I'm going to be doing a presentation on my Uruguay trip in May but wanted to share a few pics from my most recent trip... 1) Holy monster livebearers - a jumbo female Jenynsia sp. from the type locality for the Genus (33) 2) Cool snails...too bad we can't take them back (67) 3)...

The bad news is that I won't be able to attend the Feb CCA meeting...the good news is that I'll be arriving in Uruguay that morning (after an overnight flight)! This will be my third trip down and will be collecting with Felipe Cantera (www.aqvaterra.com), a couple of folks from Canada...

I'm headed back to Uruguay in early Feb 2014 and plan to bring back my full quota of fish (Gymnogeos, chanchitos, pikes, livebearers, cories, plecos, characins, oddballs). Uruguayan fish tend to be pretty hardy but collecting, transporting, shipping and acclimation can be pretty stressful on...

More to come later... Matt

Hi Guys, I have put together this trip for Early Dec 2008, I have 4 people who have committed and need 4-5 more. This is the ultimate way to collect, Felipe takes care of all the arrangements, has all the equipment, you eat great, his guys take care of the fish, you just play in the rivers and...