Incorrect spelling of Grindal.

apistomaster wrote:Hi Milton,

I agree that the barbels on Ancistrus may have no direct use in brood care. They could simply be a form of showing that a male would make a good mate.

Bit like a peacock's tail.

Some basic hygiene wouldn't go amiss either. Some shops stink.

viciouswolf11 wrote:Big tank for tetras, The tank is a 3*1*1.5 foot tank, Don't know much of gallon measurement but think its 50 gallons.

About half that.

I've seen photographs of paleatus x panda so diphyes x panda wouldn't be out of the question.

Found a few fry in a tank I've only had characins in for the past few weeks. (Since the CSG convention weekend as it happens). No obvious candidates but maybe Hara jerdoni? Anybody who's familiar with hara fry able to say yes/no? fryid.jpg ETA just noticed Adrian's picture in the catelog. Mmmm, does...

This kind of thing?

I've raised and sold a fair few corys including this species and I'd say they were big enough to trade and to sell at auctions etc. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable selling them to a shop at that size though. This is a fast growing species and is worth more when larger so would be worth growing on fo...

What's the cichlid?

Bumped into a few folk in both Pier and Aqualife so plenty fish were being bought.
I bought Hara jerdoni, Corydoras hastatus and Trochilocharax ornatus.

Most interest concerned an unknown "deep water" catfish that nobody could identify even to genus (or maybe even family).

S. prionotus at 4 months old for comparison. The dorsal markings appear to match up.

At 1 month. Images can be used for catelog if you want.

Richard B wrote:If you're ever heading down this way at all, bring some weitzmani with you & i'll sort something out. I can venture north but it's a wee bit far to collect this time

I'm not down as often since I moved jobs unfortunately. I'm down for the convention and probably the autumn auction.

Jools wrote:You should have a word with MA @ Glasgow. They've been asking me for similar things. Drop me a PM if you want details. Appreciate it's a longish drive.

Jools

Will do, ta.

I had C. weitzmani at today's Glenrothes auction - 6 bags of 2 for £5. All unsold.

I get more for pandas at auction.

Indeed, and the worst (best?) one isn't even a Cory. Synodontis galinae anyone? I think the more I know about something, the more likely I am to think split. Also, fish breeders IMHO are much more likely splitters. Jools Well breeders are collectors so they/we like to "collect" different ...

C123 has the yellow fins (it's called yellow cory cat) but it should have horizontal bars in the dorsal fin (though these are not always obvious) rather than a blotch. It's also uncommon in the hobby.

There's always the possibility you have something new.

I have C. bilineatus and they are quite different from this fish. The pattern is much bolder. Also they are rare in the hobby. This fish is most like C. napoensis, which is very variable or perhaps C132.

julii - £2
weitzmani - £3
habrosus - £1 (12 for £10)

Collect from Blairgowrie/Perth.

Your fish look like the line-bred black corys. Your friends are dark shultzei/aeneus. I know somebody who bought some of those and they lightened up considerably when kept over a light substrate. Just as Ian said.

If we can get back on topic...
I clicked the linky at the bottom of this page then ordered a stack of books. How do I know any pennies were sent to PC? All seems a bit mysterious. A wee acknowledgement at the checkout stage would be a good idea.

In fact there are 2 or 3 iffy photos there.

The first CW10 looks more like CW09. But I do have a crap monitor.

Jools wrote:What I should also add (Graham R) is that any registered keeper info on non-catfishes will, very likely, get deleted...

Jools

Meh! Don't much like kribs anyway.

Think there were some &

Tatia gyrina

also.

Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True has posted a picture of some pre-hispanic Colombian gold objects on his blog. One is described as a catfish and can be seen here . Can it be identified at all even to family? I wondered about a very stylised callichthyd. Perhaps Hoplosternum magdalenae ?

I think these are the same species as mine which I believe is Otocinclus huaorani . First of all: I'm not an expert on Otocinclus. Take everything I say with a liberal amount of salt. Second of all: I can't ID that fish, but it's definitely not O. huaorani Are you thinking the image is incorrectly ...

I think these are the same species as mine which I believe is

Otocinclus huaorani

.

Now sold.