Chalceus macrolepidotus

[Alex Odesit]

One very nice Internet resource related to fish books (and magazines) was created by my friend Ken Ruzek. It is called the Master Index of Freshwater Fishes (MIFF). It is located here: http://www.webcityof.com/mifftitl.htm If we look up Chalceus macrolepidotus in MIFF, we find this:

Chalceus macrolepidotus
(Cuvier 1817, JG:254, Bi:76, Ge:342, B3:108 Chalceus erythrurus ?, B1:244, AS:183, SS:34, AxB:151, Ve:34, ABE:335, St:166, Sf:73, Ax6:186, AV:F-165.00, TF:58 2/79) Plethodectes erythrurus, Brycon erythrurus, Pellegrina heterolepsis, Chalceus ararapeera, Brycon macrolepidotus, Creagrutus pellegrini "Yellow-Finned Chalceus" "Pink-Tailed Characin" "Pink-Tailed Chalceus" `Glanzsalmler` `Südamerikanischer` `Großschuppensalmler` `Schlanksalmler`

Everything in parenthesis is references to books and magazines. One very notable part of this list of references is "Ax6:186" which decodes to page 186 (and following) in "Axelrod, Herbert R. 1980: Breeding Aquarium Fishes, Book 6 (T.F.H. H995) , T. F. H. Publications, NJ. Pages 285." Since this is a reference to a book on fish breeding in aquaria, it would be a good place to start looking. Fortunately, Lisa already did since she has all these books memorized and doesn't need the MIFF!


Dean

Interesting resource, thanks for sharing Dean.

Alex

[Lisachromis]

Fortunately, Lisa already did since she has all these books memorized and doesn't need the MIFF!

LOL

I do tend to retain a lot of what I read with fish.... However, introduce yourself to me and within 5 minutes I may have a hard time remembering your name!

[Alex Odesit]

Fortunately, Lisa already did since she has all these books memorized and doesn't need the MIFF!

LOL

I do tend to retain a lot of what I read with fish.... However, introduce yourself to me and within 5 minutes I may have a hard time remembering your name!

Lisa,
My name is Alex and you schooling me about the Chalseus Macrolepidotus , the fish I had for decades
Now you'll remember my name, ha ha

[Hudson Ensz]

I have watched them in the rio solimoes very interesting fish and lives in shoals of like ten fish.
i have a book by axelrod with one in it and it says they grow to a foot long!!!
heres a quote "This fish has not been bred, because it is fairly rare and not too desirable. The fish is sensative and ussually does not last long in the aquarium." it says that it gets agressive when larger then two inches too.

[Alex Odesit]

yes, that’s exactly the book I were referring in one of my previous post. Look at the picture I posted above (fish and text), does it look familiar

Tell us more what exactly you gather while watching these guys in natural environment.
Do you remember water temp? Wild fish picture would be great..

Alex

[Hudson Ensz]

I am so sorry yeah those do look familiar lol
it was like three years agothey were fast surface dwellers in fairly large groups with a perfect really vivid purple tail in the rio solimoes i also saw some pencilfish sardinhao, or another speices of chalceus and lots of piraoscas. fish haven cant wait to go back and fish a little. no cichlids though