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by Mike_Noren
21 Jul 2012, 08:51
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Monster Fishkeepers Sued by Monster Energy Drink
Replies: 18
Views: 6951

Re: Monster Fishkeepers Sued by Monster Energy Drink

Energydring has nothing to do with keeping fishes, so a Court would have to dismiss all charges - but the legal system in the USA is so complicated, so expensive, the owner of the website will indeed most likely be broke before the Court ruling appears. Also, and I may be wrong here, I think that i...
by Mike_Noren
17 Jul 2012, 23:02
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Monster Fishkeepers Sued by Monster Energy Drink
Replies: 18
Views: 6951

Re: Monster Fishkeepers Sued by Monster Energy Drink

So the makers of the undrinkable swill consider themselves to own the word "Monster"? Even in fields unrelated to beverages?

Like you say their claim is weak but their pockets are deep.
by Mike_Noren
24 Jun 2012, 09:01
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What is the L# designated for this pleco?
Replies: 24
Views: 9320

Re: What is the L# designated for this pleco?

I can sell the fish I breed at one of my local clubs by their proper scientific name or I can put their L Number on the bag and get twice as much. This goes for all types of common names: any fish is much easier to sell under a common name than under its scientific name. I actually did a little exp...
by Mike_Noren
23 Jun 2012, 10:44
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Can this be TSNxLeiarius pictus, vs. TSNxL.marmoratus?
Replies: 9
Views: 2919

Re: Can this be TSNxLeiarius pictus, vs. TSNxL.marmoratus?

Viktor Jarikov wrote:Does this alleviate your animal-rights concerns?
I'm not opposed to hybrids for "animal rights concerns", but because the end result is that the pure species are lost to the hobby.
by Mike_Noren
23 Jun 2012, 10:37
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Short-bodied fish in the aquarium trade
Replies: 5
Views: 1878

Re: Short-bodied fish in the aquarium trade

I suspect there is some way to produce some types of disabilities in fish, notably the "short body"/"balloon" shape, which does not rely on finding random mutations or inbreeding. I would guess the early stages of development is interfered with through chemicals or e.g. temperatu...
by Mike_Noren
23 Jun 2012, 10:12
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What is the L# designated for this pleco?
Replies: 24
Views: 9320

Re: What is the L# designated for this pleco?

I would probably use Pterygoplichthys sp. "L083" for the Xingu population/species, seeing as it's distinctive enough. That's a taxonomical statement that this is a distinct but as yet unidentified or unnamed species. If you want to express that this is a distinct population of a named spe...
by Mike_Noren
22 Jun 2012, 18:33
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What is the L# designated for this pleco?
Replies: 24
Views: 9320

Re: What is the L# designated for this pleco?

Just in case people are not aware of this: L-numbers are not scientific. L-numbers are placeholder names used by the German aquarist magazine Die Aquarien und Terrarienzeitschrift (DATZ) to get around the problem that there are so many undescribed (i.e. unknown to science and does not have a scienti...
by Mike_Noren
16 Jun 2012, 12:41
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Is this Ancistrus claro LDA08?
Replies: 15
Views: 4193

Re: Is this Ancistrus claro LDA08?

Maybe I should explain my doubts... A couple of years ago I bought this nicely colored common ancistrus male: Ancistrus_male_DSC_0118.jpg At the time there was some speculation here on PC that my original male was a claro x common hybrid. He never grew very big, maybe 7 cm, but was a devoted & s...
by Mike_Noren
16 Jun 2012, 09:22
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Is this Ancistrus claro LDA08?
Replies: 15
Views: 4193

Re: Is this Ancistrus claro LDA08?

AFAIK the distinguishing character for Ancistrus claro is the vermiculations (squiggly lines) on the face, and on old pictures I've seen it's as obvious they're not commons as in the Cat-elog photo. The claro I've seen sold in the last year or so are nearly indistinguishable from commons, with just ...
by Mike_Noren
05 Jun 2012, 19:34
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: If this is O. vittatus - from where does it come?
Replies: 2
Views: 815

Re: If this is O. vittatus - from where does it come?

Yes, that's O. vittatus . Fishes going by that name have an impossibly huge distribution, from Venezuela to Argentina, and in reality it's almost guaranteed to be a species complex of many similar species. It's impossible to say where your fish is from, but playing the collecting odds I'd say probab...
by Mike_Noren
02 Jun 2012, 09:14
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish
Replies: 46
Views: 9603

Re: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish

I doubt that all brown Ancistrus share a common ancestor I agree, "brown speckled" is probably the ancestral condition in Ancistrus , but the common ancistrus & cirrhatus have a fairly specific and unusual pigmentation pattern: small round light spots on the head which get progressive...
by Mike_Noren
31 May 2012, 10:30
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Aky Aky Aky, Oi Oi Oi
Replies: 15
Views: 4551

Re: Aky Aky Aky, Oi Oi Oi

@ Mike - you are right, they have been bred. I know the guys at Bolton Aquarium have bred them before. The Aky are £15 :wtf: It's actually not a bad price for a fish so rarely seen in the trade. And good reason for a little extra tlc at this stage. I'd consider that cheap, that's not much more than...
by Mike_Noren
31 May 2012, 08:31
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish
Replies: 46
Views: 9603

Re: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish

Where was this particular common ancistrus bought?
by Mike_Noren
30 May 2012, 21:25
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Aky Aky Aky, Oi Oi Oi
Replies: 15
Views: 4551

Re: Aky Aky Aky, Oi Oi Oi

Oh, what a wonderful find! Allegedly they're not too difficult to breed, so here's hoping you can get a little colony going!

May I be so rude as to ask how much you paid for them?
by Mike_Noren
30 May 2012, 15:13
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish
Replies: 46
Views: 9603

Re: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish

COI is Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I, it's the most commonly used gene for barcoding (species identification).
by Mike_Noren
30 May 2012, 11:47
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish
Replies: 46
Views: 9603

Re: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish

This outcross of the original albino species just passed to this species with basic mendellian genetics. This is true. I'd however point out that COI is a mitochondrial gene and hence maternally inherited: if the albino male was a different species the hybridization would leave no trace in COI, bec...
by Mike_Noren
29 May 2012, 20:21
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish
Replies: 46
Views: 9603

Re: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish

This is rather strange since it is explicitely written here : http://131.104.97.143/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/110822_-iBOL-Data-and-Resource-Sharing-Policies1.pdf at iBOL that data release should be done within few weeks, and made available to the community. Yeah, I know. And if you make reference...
by Mike_Noren
29 May 2012, 14:35
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish
Replies: 46
Views: 9603

Re: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish

What is writen above is not exactly correct. Fish-BOL is not sensu stricto a database, it is a barcoding project. Sequence in the BOLD database are also deposited in GenBank Try finding the A. cirrhosus sequence in GenBank. Fish-BOL sits on the sequences, some times for years, before submitting the...
by Mike_Noren
28 May 2012, 19:04
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish
Replies: 46
Views: 9603

Re: Identity of the common bristlenose catfish

There weren't that many, but there were several wild caught specimens of Ancistrus cirrhosus , from both the lower and upper Parana basin. Assuming these were correctly identified then it's unlikely that the common bristlenose is this species There's the rub right there. FishBOLD is brimming with c...
by Mike_Noren
19 May 2012, 20:29
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Clarias mass production -artificial fertilization
Replies: 8
Views: 4697

Re: Clarias mass production -artificial fertilization

My understanding is that normally most losses are due to the hormone injection used to make the fish's gonads mature, not the stripping of eggs and milt.
by Mike_Noren
17 May 2012, 14:09
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Yellow syno from Cameroon
Replies: 9
Views: 2113

Re: Yellow syno from Cameroon

Is there any reason to believe it's a described species?

The entire area is poorly sampled, and I'd be surprised if there weren't undescribed Synodontis there.
by Mike_Noren
09 May 2012, 07:44
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: ID please
Replies: 9
Views: 1400

Re: ID please

lmt6600 wrote:Well It took me to <URL redacted>
Dude remove that link, not only is it porn, it tries to start a bunch of processes - I'm pretty sure it's malicious.
by Mike_Noren
09 May 2012, 07:41
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: Baby mekong catfish? can anyone id please
Replies: 32
Views: 8430

Re: Baby mekong catfish? can anyone id please

mjj4307 wrote:In English please???
"Yes he can."
by Mike_Noren
05 May 2012, 19:28
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What is this adorable corydoras-looking thing?
Replies: 10
Views: 2651

Re: What is this adorable corydoras-looking thing?

I've seen it spelled with a K many times - but not being a cichlid expert in any way, I decided to use Aquatic Republic's spelling. Yes, it's a very common error. For a frighteningly thorough treatment of subject, see: Nomenclatural availability of putative scientific generic names applied to the S...
by Mike_Noren
05 May 2012, 11:41
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: L46 and the Belo Monte dam
Replies: 247
Views: 60703

Re: L46 and the Belo Monte dam

I think there's an opportunity to press the Brazilian government this summer. As I posted earlier they're hosting the "United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development" , and are probably very sensitive about public and vocal environmental critique. And it's hard to get any less sustai...
by Mike_Noren
05 May 2012, 11:28
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What is this adorable corydoras-looking thing?
Replies: 10
Views: 2651

Re: What is this adorable corydoras-looking thing?

Sfamnun wrote:That would be a - a ram cichlid. They are definitely adorable, but not so -like, I'm afraid.
Mikrogeophagus, otherwise correct.
by Mike_Noren
03 May 2012, 22:11
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What are they selling as Ancistrus leucostictus?
Replies: 16
Views: 1994

Re: What are they selling as Ancistrus leucostictus?

Nijrem wrote:Recently got a small one, labeled leucostictus.
That's a young Common.
by Mike_Noren
03 May 2012, 08:27
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: What are they selling as Ancistrus leucostictus?
Replies: 16
Views: 1994

Re: What are they selling as Ancistrus leucostictus?

wijnands wrote:I'm baffled really why there's hardly any claro on sale here
It is a very rare fish around here too (Sweden), I have never seen one in a shop. I have occasionally seen claro on the stocklists of various German wholesellers, but I do not know if they're correctly identified.
by Mike_Noren
01 May 2012, 00:23
Forum: What is my catfish?
Topic: BristleNose ID?
Replies: 9
Views: 1934

Re: BristleNose ID?

Am I the only one who get some striped Panaquolus -looking fish when hovering over the clog-tag Ancistrus multispinis , rather than a photo of the species A. multispinis ? Is it just me, or an odd error in the cat-elog? As for this thread... OP's fish don't look like Commons to me, but I can't say w...
by Mike_Noren
25 Apr 2012, 21:57
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: I told you so :-( Damn Dam
Replies: 28
Views: 4673

Re: I told you so :-( Damn Dam

Andersp90 wrote:Is it not possible that the L14 and L48 distribution is large enough for some of the population to be outside the range of the slow water?
Yes it is possible. That's the kind of thing one'd wish the environmental impact study had investigated.

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