Looks like to me.

I'd like a copy as well.

I agree, looks like .

They don't look like they've eaten too much. It's really hard to overfeed an animal that is adapted to eating pretty much constantly (which algivores/detritivores such as these are).

Tweedledoom wrote:Thank you! This is the only catfish I've owned aside from my pleco, so I'm super new to the different Genuses (Genusi?).

The plural is "genera".

Looks like a .

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105579031300078X Molecular phylogeny of thorny catfishes (Siluriformes: Doradidae) Mariangeles Arce H, Roberto E. Reis, Anthony J. Genevac, Mark H. Sabaj Pérez Abstract Doradidae is a monophyletic catfish family endemic to continental South America, ...

Sure, send that PDF my way...

It's a for starters, but not sure which species...

cbowlincatfish wrote:So, Your telling me I have a plain if I understand correctly common albino pleco. The pet store assured me it was not an albino when I ordered it. Oh local stores just irk me.

It is not technically albino (which would have red eyes), but leucistic plecs are often sold as albino or chocolate.

All three species I'm pretty sure are each other's closest relatives, so if they can hybridize, they would be able to hybridize fairly easily. I would definitely avoid this set-up.

http://www.pvas.com/

PVAS hosts the All-Aquarium Catfish Convention every other year, so you probably shouldn't have to look much further then that!

Keep your eyes on Snookn21's auctions on aquabid, he gets Orinoco stuff and he had some last year. The season for Orinoco fish has just begun so I'd expect to see some for sale in the coming weeks or months.

Another ecological reason may also be possible than habitat preference. That big middle of the range are part of the Amazon; most of the other localities appear to be non-Amazonian rivers. As the Amazon spreads across South America it brings along with it new potential competitors which may outcompe...

If you've raised Malawi fry then bristlenoses should be no problem. They're basically mini-adults once they've left the cave, quite hardy! The main problems of course is hygiene (and since they're on the bottom, any dirt build-up on the bottom is something they'll live in directly) as well as aggres...

My experience is 3-4 weeks is way too long; I have usually moved them out before then. They should've outgrown that space. The bigger ones will start outcompeting the smaller ones too. Furthermore you have to keep up with the cleanliness of breeding traps or you'll lose fry as well.

Definitely Pseudolithoxus, and looks like P. nicoi to me. P. nicoi aren't as common in the trade as P. anthrax as far as I have seen, so good find!

Both Pterygoplichthys species mentioned (as well as all other members of the genus) reach fairy large sizes. As mentioned, it's odd that it's not growing, but without knowing about your maintenance schedule then it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Given other individuals and some space, I think you'll see this fish become much more active. Their schooling behavior is part of the draw for why I have these fish!

It's a common pleco.

Common plecos can have parentage of either Pterygoplichthys pardalis or Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus. This causes their spotting pattern to be somewhat variable so they don't all look the same.

P. anthrax is the most likely.

I will note the main diagnostic character between P. anthrax and P. nicoi is the absence or presence (respectively) of a white edge on the caudal fin, which we can't see in the photos.

IMO, it's hard to beat the ...

Attractiveness is up to the opinion, but B. demantoides has a higher "shark-fin" appearance to its dorsal fin. B. demantoides is more uncommon than H. subviridis and commands a slightly higher price.

Nice find! You are indeed correct, it's not the same species as the common glass catfish. It looks to be another species of Kryptopterus besides the common glass catfish, but I don't know which one. I'll admit I at first thought of Parailia , but that's a bias of mine since I got one as a contaminan...

Mmmm, I don't think it's a piebald.

And I wouldn't believe an Ancistrus ID to something as obscure as A. maracasae, but if he actually gets wild-caught Ancistrus there's likely little hope of a positive ID without locality data.

Looks like a common bristlenose, . It shouldn't get much larger than that.

They're pretty dismissive of that one case. Does the book go in depth on that?

Ooh look at all the little cutie pies! Congratulations and good luck!

What are those snails?

Those little snout tentacles means it's just an Ancistrus, probably a female. The most common species is an unknown one, but we here just call it Ancistrus cf_cirrhosus . Admittedly, the jaws appear to be fairly wide, so it is probably not whatever the common one is. Spotted brown Ancistrus are foun...

Viktor Jarikov wrote:That's what they do around here. This guy though probably bit more than he can chew (read swallow).

Indeed, since those pectoral fin spines can be locked outwards, so I'm not sure how the snake is going to get past that...