Hey, well It looks like irsacae to me. I mean I support Richard with his opinion about a mess in taxonomy but I've seen really a lot of irsacae and I would say this fish is irsacae. I've probably something that would turn out to be tanganicae but it doesn't grow :). And my fish really have this tria...

Hello, well Richard I must say that you were really good at ID :). I'm pretty sure you were right about 2 species (macrostoma and nebulosus) however thamalakanensis is imho not in imported fish. Look at the fins - they are much more spotted in Seeger's specimen abd humerall process is massive triang...

Hello,

I will have to check Seegers book.
Fish are around 12cm TL.

Regards.

Hello, hmm nebulosa looks alike for sure Richard. Macrostoma maybe however I was unable to find good photo of this species and thamalakanensis is a possibility only because it comes from Kafue river system (it is huge area) since it doesn't look very familiar with photos above. I will take a better ...

Hey, well fish have arrived. I have totally no clue about species. They were labelled as Synodontis nigromaculata and Synodontis macrostigma however I doubt they really are this species (macrostigma maybe but nigromaculatus not). In my opinion there are 3 or even 4 species but things are complicated...

Hey, as always Sid has some great arguments. But what you are feeding your worms is up to you. When you want to gutload them you just feed something better than carbage - that's true for everything except waxworms. They only fed on hive contents (I don't know the word for it but it is made out of wa...

Hey,

you may try wax worms as food. Bigger fish, reptiles and amphibians just love them. But they have high fat and sugar contents so not too much ;).

Regards.

Hello, well fish are in Poland now. I've just received a phone call from importer. No photos yet and I will be able to visit them not sooner than in next month :(. But in next week we probably will see some photos :) Since this importer is only in tanganyika fish opinion was like this: WOW they are ...

Yup, same here. I would love to see this photos

Hello, I'm not in Loricariidae so I have few questions after new posts in this topic. Is this fish a subspecies of H. zebra? Or you just speculate that it may be? I wonder why only 8 fish have been exported? Maybe it is just a variation of normal H. zebra that occurs once in the while in nature and ...

Hello I prefer Dogs (nice nickname btw.), what you are saying is mostly true but I hope you have understood MatsP arguments? Most fish will adapty to conditions far away from their natural and considered as perfect but usually we(hobbysts) try to mimic natural conditions of fish as much as possible ...

Hey Shane, happy birthday :). You may try older books from 1980-1990. I have few books about amphibians from back then. They have no photos but very, very detailed informations (to cover signle species they use about 20-30 pages) about every thing you may imagine :). Also a lot of very good drawning...

Hey Carp, my male is even attacking a glass if I'm in front of the tank. And try to be noisy in fishroom he will in part of a second be under nest ready to attack anything. I will try to record this and post on youtube. I've removed a lid from a tank and destroyed a nest because I hope he will becam...

Hey banana :), well my male left on my hand a nasty scar after last water change. He is attacking me as well :), splashes of water were fun at the beginning but now they became annoying :). I'm worried that you need at least two tanks to spawn this species or one big enought to allow female feel com...

Hey, well it is a little bit more complicated that I used to think :). Definitely male is in breeding mood (nest is big and he is guarding it non stop) but he became really aggressive. Females are fat, really full of eggs but are not able to swim throug the tank because male is attacking them just i...

Hey,

Sid you may ask Evert van Ammelrooy about his book ;). Not so outstanding photos but he definitely is not only looking at cichlids ;).

It is good to mention that Fitor's book is now 20 euros cheaper .

Regards.

Hey, for Horabagrus brachysoma catelog says 45cm which is maximum size reached by this species. Not often, but sometimes catelog is not right about size, especially with bigger species which are too small to be a potential food for humans in bigger scale. They are not often keep in home aquarium and...

Hey, well I've transfered my group to their breeding tank. 1 male and 3 females. Male became very aggressive and females must to sit in refuges because when they leave male is chasing them relentlessly. He also build a little bubble nest hehe. It looks funny because he is so big and nest so small :)...

Hey, you sure you have hydra? Those grows pretty big (like 1cm) and live their lives alone. But there is second species very similar but much smaller and live in big colonies. It's Bryozoa if I remember corectly :). Also there is third animal that sometimes we can see in our aquariums and they look ...

Hey, well I have 1 male and 3 fully mature females in my Q-tank now. Male is trying to build a nest but in this tank he won't success :). Tomorrow I'm going to move them to their own tank as they show no sickness and have great apetites :). Hopefully I will have nest full of babies in no time :). Fe...

Hello Silurus, thank you very much for an info. Is pdf available yet? I've seen M. albomaculatus from Zambia (southern part of the lake) frequently (few imports to poland last year). They were very small specimens but few were mature ones, well that's what I think, they were around 25cm TL or slight...

Hey, I've just received a copy of a book and I wish to thanks to Lee Finley. He organised everything after our talk via emails and book arrived in week to Poland from US which is a great success :). Thank you very much Lee for all your help, your kindness, autograph and especially for a book. I'm st...

Hey,

well there will be some differences imho. Mostly in tooth, shape of jaws (colerated with growth of muscles) and other things, mostly in behaviour, colerated with feeding.
But without really carefull checking you won't be probably able to tell difference between f0 and f1 fish .

Regards.

Hey,

recently there was a topic with photos of BIG .

Here it is. So some time, big tank and good feeding will make Platydoras a proper choice I guess. And they are easy to obtain .

Regards.

Hey, I am. The first Uganda Diaries entry is in Shane's World. I am using these forum postings mainly for two reasons 1) It allows me to get the info down fast without forgetting things before I have time to put it all into a proper article and 2) There are many small, not too successful trips (like...

Hey, Shane great stuff! I really enjoy reading this kind of reports. Have you considered putting all of them in series of articles? I guess we will eventually loose them if they just stay as a topics in forum. In Shane's world section will be, for sure, much easier to find them :). Suckermouth - thi...

Hello, yes huge catfishes are amazing in look and character but common person just won't be able to keep them. They just need huuuuuge indoor ponds not aquariums ;) so try to find so much free space in your home to keep single catfish if you can use the same amount of space to keep hundreds of small...

Hey,

this bigger one is Megalodoras. I'm not an expert so I would say but it could be another species.

Smaller one looks like really old, well fed to me.

Regards.

Hello, well nigromaculata will be in Poland as well so we will have photos for sure. I've just didn't ordered it because I knew that importer will do it :D so was not so sure in case of macrostigma. We already have photos of Synodontis melanosticta from that exporter so it will be interesting to see...

Hello, well I have some info. I'm not THAT excited any more. Two species were collected from river Kafue. It is Synodontis macrostigma and Synodontis nigromaculata around 8 cm long. I didn't order nigromaculata but few specimens of macrostigma are interesting enough... to spend some money on them ;)...