They say "a picture is worth a thousand words". I have Ian's book, Identifying Cordoradinae Catfish and I find it helpful, but even with the pictures, I am not always sure what I should be looking for to differentiate between what to me are similar appearing species. To me, a novice, C. bi...

What do you look for to distinguish among C. delphax, C. ambiacus, and C. agassizii?

Cheri

Yes, that's the way they work for me. Right now, any time it rains or snows here, they are spawning, whether or not they have had a recent water change!

Cheri

My group started spawning after being conditioned on a diet of live and flake foods, and then a water change of 50% with water about 5F degrees cooler at the time a low pressure weather system was moving through. Once started, they have been spawning every few days for the past month without my doin...

I'm not very experienced, but my group of Panda cories have been spawning regularly (every 3-4 days) for the past month at 71F.
The eggs have taken 5-6 days to hatch at this temp.

Cheri

Thanks for the I.D.'s It's nice to have proper names to pin on them.

In a search on the Internet, I have seen references to breeding C. leucomelas and C. bilineatus, but have come up blank with C. agassizii. Has the latter been bred in the aquarium?

Cheryl

Thanks Ian for those pictures. It was nice to have them "side-by-side" for comparisn. I have studied those and the one's in the catelog, however,and am not sure what to look for to differentiate some of them. I managed to get some pictures. They're not the greatest, but hopefully they will...

I have three different species of catfish, each sold as C. punctatus , and none of which are the true punctatus. I am having a hard time identifying them using the catalog, because there are several similar species, and I don't know what subtle or not so subtle characteristics differentiate them. Fo...