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.

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.

mjj4307 wrote:In English please???

"Yes he can."

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...

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...

Sfamnun wrote:That would be a

Microgeophagus ramirezi

- a ram cichlid. They are definitely adorable, but not so

Corydoras

-like, I'm afraid.

Mikrogeophagus, otherwise correct.

Nijrem wrote:Recently got a small one, labeled leucostictus.

That's a young Common.

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.

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...

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.

So is the L14 going to disaper? Statistically it's got a 20-40% chance of still existing 10 years after the construction of the dam. Most species probably wont go extinct right away. Species die hard, they usually cling on to existence long after one'd think they could not possibly survive - this i...

Has anyone made a list of the species that will be lost?? No, there has been no study on the effects on the fish. The environmental impact study didn't with a single word discuss the effects on anything living under the water surface, and an Independent Expert Panel (pdf) report didn't go in to spe...

On the subject of Arowanas, have you guys seen this?
Is that a gorgeous fish, or is that a gorgeous fish?

Does anyone know what the effect of the dam will be? How many km of river will be lost? The entire river will be diverted in cement tubes, bypassing and drying out the entire Volta Grande, a distance of about 60 kilometers. Are we going to lose some of the known pleco species? Yes, several, includi...

AFAIK none of the feral aquarium fish in Florida have been released by aquarists, they're all escapees from breeders, and have mainly been released either due to floodings or because the breeder went bankrupt and released his stock. In short, they'd all have been free in the Everglades no matter how...

if they're all genetically the same, then all we have is 1 big fat species and about half a million of local varieties :D No. With "they all look the same genetically" is meant that there is no difference in the standard barcoding genes. There is obviously hereditary difference, as they l...

Yes, provided you've not used chemicals in your garden it's an excellent feed. You do not need to clean them, soil isn't dangerous to the fish, but if you wish you can let the worms empty their bowels by keeping them for a day in a container with damp (not wet) tissue paper.

The problem with hybridizing isn't just that the original species are eventually lost to the hobby, disappearing in a sea of hybrids (e.g. good luck finding a non-hybrid swordtail or Sailfin molly at your LFS!) but that unless you spend a lot of time line-breeding and back-crossing the hybrids alway...

For the wood cave I'd simply build a box using hardwood planks. I doubt the blue eye cares that the cave is square.

If you're good with a chainsaw a more natural-looking solution would be to hollow out a log.

You'll need to weigh them down with hefty rocks, of course.

Just got the error when trying to post in another thread, then another 4-5 times when trying to post this message. So now we've got it too.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I just wondered if you had any trick for identifying Parotocinclus, because I find them extremely difficult.

How can you tell it's a spilosoma?

FWIW I've never had an error, I'm in Sweden. Is there a geographic pattern to who gets errors? Could be that one of CloudFlare's gateways is misconfigured.

No need to ask; Planetcatfish has a blanket permission to publish any of my photos.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot - the fish in the photo is captured in the Rio São João drainage, in the state of Rio De Janeiro.

Based on those I would definitely say the images we questioned are not Otothyris lophophanes , but are S. guntheri . Yes I agree: it is definitely not lophophanes or any other described Otothyris , and while I still have not seen a verified Schizolecis guntheri I can find no other described fish it...

I mangled the sentence a bit No no, I did. Sorry about that, I understood what you meant yet managed to misrepresent you in the quote. I've edited it for clarity now. I wasn't at all criticizing your suggestion, I'm merely wondering if we actually know that Hara have a problem with warm, slow-movin...

Jools wrote:They charge for it.

$20/mo & website isn't money, and most non-commercial sites will probably use the free version. I've a hard time seeing how this could be profitable for them.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, it seems like an interesting service, I just feel I must be missing something.

Interesting service, but how does cloudflare actually make any money from it?

unlike most Hara's this one < Hyalobagrus flavus > likes slowmoving warm water Slightly OT, but do we actually know that Hara wants fast moving water and low temperatures, or is that an extrapolation from it being a Sisoridae? Hara 's look like they're camoflaged-as-leaf-litter fish to me, and the ...

This was identified years ago by Ingo as Schizolecis guntheri . http://www.scotcat.com/thedarkone/loricariidae/schizolecis_guntheri.jpg I queried the slightly different pattern but he said they show up alongside the 'normal' ones But, apart from the extent of abdominal plating, how can one tell tha...