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...

@ 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...

Where was this particular common ancistrus bought?

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?

COI is Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I, it's the most commonly used gene for barcoding (species identification).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.