The most significant cause of their decline has been the destruction of the habitat due to logging and the conversion of the land into palm oil plantations. So it isn't just that the B. coccina going extinct that would have an impact on the habitat, the habitat as it was is being destroyed along...
Periodic shedding of their odontodes is normal. They'll usually do this after spawning, and he'll grow them back when he is in the mood to begin courting the female again.
C. sp. Orinoco usually has white around it's ocellus similar to regani, it just has an additional red layer that develops over the white. When they're younger it can be harder to see. It's tricky to tell as their dorsals aren't flared, but one of the pics in the first post looks like it has red...
I certainly wouldn't keep them with those fish. Mine struggled to compete with most fish and did much better when alone or with small things like Boraras.
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