Thanks HH.

When asked, I've referred to them as S. waterloti-like. I'll be interested in anything else you might learn about these guys.

Rana temporaria - Eurasian common frog - as the name implies, a rather common frog in your neck of the woods as in large parts of Europe.

Mogurnda mogurnda ?

I am so stupid to find the photo of Sturisoma robustum!!!

Any tips on welse.net???

http://www.welse.net/seiten/robust1.htm

http://www.welse.net/seiten/robust2.htm

It's not nescessarily easy if you don't speak German.

I have never read any material on how to identify the sex for Loricaria Fish. Right now I'm looking at a few pictures (and descriptions) of the difference between male and female Pseudohemiodon lamina. In the same booklet, other closely related species are described as well. The booklet is a German...

Any particular reason why the Q&A part isn't included ? I thought there was quite a lot of helpful info there as well.

Wood wrote:I would like to know more about the marble trap.

There's a picture of one in this thread:

http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=4602

Silurus wrote:and live foods

I kept a group of them for years on different kinds of frozen foods. They only got live foods occasionally.

I would think cyclopeeze would be far too big for them I use freeze dried cyclop-eeze for all my fry. For the really small ones, I use a minute amount, which I 'rub' through a brine shrimp sieve. I then collect the extremely fine particles and use them for my fry, but I also dip the bottom of the a...

Not too sure about breeding.....I can't even sex these guys! There's only one reliable way of sexing Trichopsis: Put them (if possible in a small transparent container) in front of a strong light source. You can see the outline of the internal organs through the fish. Females have a long darkish tr...

I've found these livebearer sites useful at one time or another:

American Livebearer Association : http://livebearers.org/

British Livebearer Association: http://home.clara.net/xenotoca/

Xiphophorus homepage: http://www.xiphophorus.org/

Hope this helps.

See this part of the FAQ:

http://faq.planetcatfish.com/index.php?qid=20&catid=11

According to Corymans excellent book on breeding Corydoradine catfishes, both males and females should be big enough to spawn at 1½". According to his breeding log, the males were 30mm and the females 32 mm when he managed to breed them.

I can't see the pictures.

Chaetostoma sp. (L187a) ?

You can see some pics of that one here: http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... /308_f.php

Banjo catfish is one of my areas of interest as well. I've got two species so far, but I would like to get more if possible. You may not see them that often, but it has almost become a sport to see who can spot most of them in my tanks. They're so cool - even when they pretend to be dead. :-) Welcom...

It's in the Cat-eLog: http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/ba ... /645_f.php

It's in the FAQ: http://faq.planetcatfish.com/index.php?qid=20&catid=11

I've had breeding behaviour in the exact same species (which btw. has been given a new name: it's now B. almorhae). A fellow Dane managed to raise a number of fry a couple of years ago.

In that case, quite a few species of Synodontis would do nicely. S. petricola and S. multipunctatus would in my mind be good choices. I'm sure other people can add to the list.

Lots of different kinds of catfish could go into that tank except for one thing: If we're talking about the same thing, crushed coral sand is way to sharp for the barbels of most catfish.

Thanks Shane !

I do own a copy of Burgess. I was worried that the fact that it is somewhat outdated might also influence its validity for determining which genus a certain pleco belongs to.

When ID'ing plecos, some of you often seem to look at the teeth to help determining which genus they belong in. Could someone point me to a guide to these different kinds of teeth ?

plesner

As I told you when the idea came up in the chat room, I think it's a fantastic idea. I dunno when would be a good time, but how about something close to midnight here in Europe ? That'll be late afternoon or early evening in the US and Early in the morning in parts of Asia, Australia and New Zealand ?

Ive tried both red and 'black' light with some of my catfish. I did get to see them more, but I got a lot of algae. I guess the algae really enjoyed the extra light.

Shane wrote:but am still not sure how this would be easier (or better) than just pointing a powerhead at, or near, the spawning cave.

The advantage would be if you need spawning caves (plural).

Shane, the idea of using this with catfish isn't mine. Someone (can't remember who) mentioned it in the chat room a couple of weeks ago. I've had the idea somewhere in the back of my mind ever since. Some catfish - i.e. some Loricariids like some current directed at the cave they're in - this can be...

Shane, I don't think I made myself clear. The idea I saw in this was using one pump to direct a current directly into or just past a number of caves, which could be advantageous when trying to breed certain catfish species.

A couple of weeks ago, someone brought up the topic of under-gravel jets in the chat room.

http://snipurl.com/3qv0

Has anyone tried something like this with for instance Loricariids ? It would make it easy to provide a current to every cave in the tank if so wanted.

I woke up one Sunday morning more than 15 years ago and decided to stop right there and then. This must have coincided with me being extra determined to do so, because it only bothered me about a week. Since then I may have smoked something like 20 cigarettes. Sometimes, when I drink a sufficient am...