Hi, @Walter The information I have read indicated that the onset of the rainy season for the central Brazil region usually starts between Sept and Nov. So I thought perhaps this was the time the water levels in the Big Bend should be rising. Since the official posture is that water levels will be ma...

It should now be the rainy season for the Xingu. I would ask those members who are there now or who travel there with any regularity to describe how the Big Bend looks these days? How are the water levels? How is the water quality? No, now is end of dry season, start of rainy season, waters at lowe...

Hi, There are efforts in Brazil to breed Zebras and start a "ornamental fish breeding industry", to protect Zebras in the wild and give work to fishermen (yes, they wanted the fishermen to "change job"), but wo far without success. Hard for Brazilians to do this, because they do ...

@panaque ..... I have exhausted the polite conversations as the importer insists that they were WC :( I have heard from a couple of pleco buddies in Europe that L46 and a few other rare plecos are bred in large tanks close to the river using river water. These plecos are subsequently sold by import...

Hi, I do not think that there is actually any legal way to export Zebras from Brazil for ornamental trade. Have been in Altamira and with university people and fishermen there four times in the last few years, ... nearly all fishermen are catching Zebras, but illegally. Those are transported to Bele...

Hi Marc, Walter, I saw pictures of T. anduzei and it's definitely NOT your fish. Check this link http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/res_area/loricariid/Venezuela2004-05/1index1.html checked the link ;) I got a new video DVD some days ago - from German Andreas Stelzig, Michael Böttner et al...

Hi Marc, no - no idea. I think, they are adult, I got them adult, they have been imported adult... This species shows a hudge distribution, maybe there are different types of coloration in specimen of different origin... (and maybe there is more than one or two species of this genus - but not descri...

Hi Marc, That cf. part sounds interesting. Because if it is Trachelyopterichthys but not taeniatus, I think, that its T . taeniatus , but I´m not 100 % sure - otherwise, if I thought, that its a different species, I would have written T. spec. aff. taeniatus. But take a look, the pattern of the lat...

Hi,
I keep Trachelyopterichthys cf. taeniatus.

I like soccer very much. Why? Don´t know - but I watch nearly each match of the WC if possible (the 3 p.m. matches are "difficult"). I guess there´s no better game to watch on TV (and of course live). Today we Austrians are really bad in football - anyway, there´s much enthusiasm at (ne...

Hi,
no problem - why should I mind?

BTW: not "my" data - the data are from user "Lustigeswesen", who asked the staff from Berlin-Zoo (and he doesn´t mind, either).

Here basic data: T: 27° C Water hardness: < 4° dGH (German unit - that´s about 5° e English hardness, ~ 150 µS/cm conductifity) 7,5 pH O 2 supply CO 2 fertilisation UVC No current Feeding: fruit, vegetables, artifical food (flakes, pills), chironomus larvae Parents (2 m, 1 f) live in this tank ...

Hi,
new pics:




More new pics

You don´t have to brush up your German for this.
On thursday there will probably be new information and new (better) pics.
We can post here.

Yes and no, L200 was bred in Scandanavia months before those that you cite above knew. There are other examples that we know of also in the Corydoras world too - not everything goes though Germany although they do tend to lead the way. OK - but the L 128 should have been bred in Germany, because th...

Well,
meanwhile the successful breeding in Zoo Berlin has been attested by the Zoo personal and by Ingo Seidel.
The offspring looks very similar to the Hemiancistrus subviridis (L 200 "Low") fry Robert Budrovcan had already some time ago.
News will follow.

Hi, I can´t imagine, that your fish are really captive bred. Cause - somebody of the big German fish im/exporters (Ingo Seidel/Aquaglobal, André Werner/Transfish, Frank Schäfer/Aquarium Glaser, Jens Gottwald/Aquatarium, etc.) probably would have known about a successful breeding, but nobody told ...

Hi, seemingly another "not yet in captivity spawned" species (?) has been bred: http://www.plecos.de/128_2_fragezeichen.jpg http://www.plecos.de/128_3_fragezeichen.jpg Location: 5.500 liter "Rio Negro" tank in the Berlin-Zoo. The pics are of poor quality - taken with a handy-cam ...

Hi, Walter I was suggesting the importer should know what the fish they sell are because opperating out of Europe or the US etc they have access to many books and the internet to confirm fish species. they cannot have more books or information, than we have. And even André (Werner) is not always su...

Hi, I am sure those that import them know what they have no. How should they know, if they depend on the information of the exporter, and the exporter depends on information of dealers, fishermen, ... Importers mostly order from a stock of an exporter, and only few German importers (others I don´t ...

Hi Janne, No, but the Aqualog still have some faults but, as you already mentioned, the Aqualog has never been an official reference.. so the mistake is at Aqualog. If you want more pics (original pics) of each L-Number, you could buy the new Bede "Mini-Atlas L-Welse" (I know, buy, buy, bu...

Hi, I am really disappointed with the numbering system as I feel it is letting the every day aquarist down. PP :( ok - then buy your plecos in future again as "queen x" and "tiger y", "z-zebra" and so on. I am really disappointed - because reading this thread I recogniz...

Hi, I would go with my original ID and say it is L287. It matches them most closely, an importer is selling fish identified as L287, and so far there is no solid evidence that L287 don't exist. You got a darn good deal there Oscar300. :razz: jeri once again: the fish sold as L 287 got new L-Numbers,...

Hi, I´ve received this book today from India - and: I´m very disappointed. This book is bad, ... bad, bad, bad. Bad condition ("dirty", with small damages, lookes used - as all of the four books I´ve ordered and received today). Vera bad quality of paper, worst binding (first time openi...

Hi,
but this picture of L 401 is not similar to the original picture of L 401 in Datz.
And the source, Diskusportal, Oli, ... you know the discussions about ... (I dont continue - dont want to be another one to be sued...)

Hi, there is no L 287 to buy at fish stores. It´s a phantom - only one specimen imported, maybe wrong origin. The fish sold as L 287 are the Hypancistrus sp. "Belo Monte" and they have got the numbers L 399 and L 400. See Datz 11 + 12/05 and http://l-welse.com/forum/articles.php?action=vi...

Hi Christian, of course there is - the Datz Sonderheft "All L-Numbers". And it´s also hard to understand, why above all US-ichthyolgists ignore scientific works in foreign languages. Some of these works are "a must" - and mainly in anatomy German language was standard before the...

Hi Erwin, your argument also seems to fit on Armbrusters comment on L 200 Low and L 128 (before publication of the description of Hemiancistrus subviridis ) - he talked about an "unknown blue-tinted species" (L 128) in mail conversation (with Caolila) - and aquarists know to determine this...

Hi,
if someone want´s to know:

L 92 = L 194 = Lasiancistrus tentaculatus

What´s that nonsens for?

Animals are no humans, so don´t judge them like men.