I'm considering getting a Panaque of some sort, the Watermelon Panaque is on the top of the list. What I'd like to know is if the L330 (is it also called L27a?) is generally "easy" to get hold of, and what prices they usually fetch in stores. I know this question is a bit general, seeing a...

It's been a while since I was active here, more than a couple years I'm sure. Thought I'd say hello :) I was a real aquamanic back then. It kind of subsided, I guess I got tired of spending so much time and money on the fish. Then, I was enrolled in a study I thoroughly hated (electrical engineering...

um... You might consider moving the gourami to the top of the site. The first fish you see is not a gourami, it's a tetra. You have to go to the very bottom of the site to see the gourami in question...

Allthough I wasnt in the middle of things like Shane, I may have got a different view of things, I saw a documentary about the coup a short while ago. Regarding the incident with people shooting at the demonstrators, according to this documentary, snipers openede fire on Chavez' supporters, and they...

How is the situation in Venezuela right now? Are the right-wing people still trying to get back in power? I know about the coup last year, but I sort of hoped that things had calmed down since then...

Sorry, but what is "turbid"?

Yup, Anarhichas lupus is often called catfish. If you look up "catfish" in a norwegian - english dictionary, you will probably find it translated to "steinbit", which is the norwegian word for this fish. A local shop that imports food from the far east had some hermetic catfish. ...

The Mergus website says their first volume of the Catfish Atlas will be released in english next year. Let's hope its early 2004

http://www.mergus.de/news___infos1.html

When photographing lories this way, I've noticed that if you hold the fish in one hand and cover it like a roof with the other one, it goes crazy, but as soon as you move the "roof-hand" away, it calms down. I guess they react at not getting any light...

http://www.aquaristic.net ships worldwide.

Just thought I should point out that my unidentified "LDA-33" is extremely similar to this one...

http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/view ... ight=lda33

I had a chat with a catfish guy in a fish store a few days ago and he suggested I should try dimming the light in my zebra-tank, to make them a bit less shy. That got me thinking... Zebras live at quite a depth in the rivers, how much light do they usually get there? Is there really any reason to li...

So... Did you go there yet, Shane?

I was just searching the net for info on Centromochlus perugiae when I found this thread.

How about just having someone at Aquabid look innto it? *Maybe* they'll do something about it...

The four largest sites for tropical fish in Sweden have joined forces and have started this site for those who wish to object on these new laws. From what I've been told, foreigners can allso sign it, I sure did. By signing this, you agree with the text inside the "box". Sorry, I don't hav...

Well, I threw out the plants. It looks a bit empty, but I'll get some more driftwood once i can afford it. The most obvious change is that my "Bajongancistrus" (unidentified as of yet, sold as LDA-33) has lost his cave... The three shabby keyhole cichlids i have used to hide in the plants ...

I doubt it... The local authorities are probably overworked as it is, they are not able too keep up on controlls of the various fish stores that are present allready, so if they have to start issuing thousands of permits from new years... They will have severe problems...

Well, I don't think the swedish "security service" has agents working undercover to make sure swedes dont sell too much fish outside of the country if that's what you're asking... I don't think the law really effects BUYING fish, just selling them. They probably forgot to ask anyone who kn...

You mean black market fish sales? That's VERY hard to believe... No, I think the reason is that the authorities want to make sure that people who sell fish at some scale qualified for this. But they put the number waaaay to low, and I think an auction should count as one "case"... I wonder...

Well, It seems some new laws has been passed in Sweden, which basically means this: 1. Noone may sell fish in more than 10 "cases"* each year without getting a permit from the the local municipality. In other words, a person cannot sell 11 guppies to 11 different buyers, but a can perfectl...

I think it's a "don't mess with me" thing... Just showing who is in charge...

Thank you very much

I'm trying to find the type locality of the horse faced loach, Acantopsis dialuzona

Does anyone know?

As for the price, they are more expensive than neons because they are wild caught fish (as opposed to cardinals, which are commercially bred in large numbers). Off-topic i guess, but aren't cardinals and neons all wild caught? I seem to remember reading somewhere that 90% of the revenue from export...

Stu: When I buy fish privately, I usually terrorise the owner with all sorts of questions about minor and major details about how he/she is keeping the fish. Anyway, he used to feed them Tetra TabiMin most of the time, thats why I'm trying first and foremost with that. They are alone in a 85 litre t...

This sounds very much like a bacterial infection problem I've been having... If you are willing to risk unbalance in the tank by killing all bacteria, you should try medicating with Sera Bactopur Direct (as said, this kills ALL bacteria). I've lost six lories to this.

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Heteropneustes fossilis, can be found in the Cat-eLog under family Heteropneustidae

Thanks for a good reply :) I was sort of wondering if he might be hiding eggs or something in there, but it just seemed TOO unlikely, they've just moved tanks! I bought them privately from a guy who had kept them in their own tank for two years, so they where all apparently very healthy when I bough...

Friday morning last week I brought back four adult Hypancistrus zebra . In the evening the next day, one of them died, probably from a troublesome bacterial infection that has killed lots of lories. I startet medicating with Sera Bactopur Direct when i found the dead zebra, and It seems to have work...