FTA: "Smuggling is a drop in the bucket." That is how it is. The trade for chinese medicine has extinguished a dozen or so species and endangered hundreds, the Three Gorges Dam alone extinguished over a dozen species, untold numbers of species have been extinguished by clear cutting, conve...

Looks a lot like a to me...

I've only seen gas bubble disease once, but it was literally air bubbles under the skin and I don't think that's what your fish has. I've seen cases like yours reported several times, and AFAI remember it's always been Corydoras . In short, I have no idea what that is, but it is something which seem...

Zebra snails (Neritina spp).

Bijn wrote:He looks a lot like the other one's in this thread but I think he's not the same. What do you think?

Well, for what it's worth the patterning on the fins is different.

This guy?

As for the big catfish, I think one should keep things in perspective: the Pangasius etc sold in pet shops are a tiny percentage of the vast numbers produced for pond aquaculture in south east asia. I am not at all convinced that the aquarium specimens on average have shorter lives, or worse quality...

It's just a baby. Males don't start develop tentacles until they're, oh, 5-6 cm long.

Aren't they a leaf litter species? If so they may burrow in sand/gravel not because that's a normal behavior for them but because there's no leaf litter to burrow in.

As I understood it the point of "my cats" is to allow finding people who've kept a species so one can ask them for advice, right? If so it doesn't matter if they're no longer keeping the species; I can still give general advice on the disposition and care of Bunocephalus even though I've n...

No one's mentioned common ancistrus?

EDIT: FWIW I haven't seen a Bunocephalus for years, and I've been looking.

Euthanize the fish, then barbecue it. Serve with potatoes, lemon, and the sauce of your choice. Problem solved. I'm not being facetious, most of these huge catfish are bred in mass quantities as foodfish - that's the main reason they keep showing up in the trade - and are good eating. EDIT: Shane, t...

That reminds me... does anyone know if there's any good way to reliably tell a nigroviridis from a fluviatilis?

this has been discussed a number of times before, e.g. here and here.

"Mopskopf"/"Pug-head" is a fairly common deformity in fish, but as far as I know the exact cause is not known, and may be complex.
As for me personally I wouldn't breed on fish like that, I would cull them.

Add to cat-elog as Auchenoglanis sp. 1?

Did you use Myxazin or Protozin? Myxazin is formalin, Protozin is a mix of malachite green, formalin and copper. EDIT: Steatocranus ? The cichlid? The catfish may be sensitive to malachite green & copper, but a cichlid should not be sensitive to either myxazin or protozin - unless you overdosed ...

Richard B wrote:Don't we just have to right-click the link and select "open in new window" or open in new tab"?

Yes. Also if you've got a mouse with three buttons/scrollwheel clicking the link with the middle button automatically opens in new tab.

(just trying to guage potential future availability in the UK Haha that was my reaction to the photo too - great minds think alike! ;) As it turns out L-457 is presently available from a wholeseller here in Sweden so they may be available in the UK too. Sadly, at £51/ea they're outside my pricerange.

It's really more a chart of mimics than of corydoradinae phylogenetics.

nevermore781 wrote:he's so dark i figured id ask.

Yes it is unusually dark for an aquarium individual, but compare to the fish on the second photo here.

One of my absolute favorite fish. I have kept & bred it, the trigger is a sharp temperature & conductivity drop (rainy season simulation). As I'm sure you know they're cave spawners, I offered mine 1.5" PVC tubes buried in leaf litter. It might be a good idea to have two males per femal...

MatsP wrote:"Hardwoods are not necessarily harder than softwoods"

That's part of the reason why I avoid the terms softwood/hardwood; in addition I'm also unsure if the terms softwood/hardwood are used outside the US.

Most broadleaf wood is safe, there are relatively few poisonous types of wood. Unfortunately I don't know much about US plants, here in Sweden some to avoid are rhododendron, yew ( Taxus ), and chestnut ( Juglans and Aesculus ). FWIW: Commonly used local wood is oak ( Quercus ), beech ( Fagus ), ald...

sidguppy wrote:those pics are copyrighted by PC, but of course with consent of the owners (!).

Those pics are published by planetcatfish with the consent of the copyright owner. Planetcatfish has no rights to the photo.

There's a fish sold as Inpaichthys sp. "blueberry" which looks much like that.

okay, that's what I was thinking, but could it be L110 Check your fish, are the light spots small on the head and get progressively bigger towards the tail, ending in a complete or near complete band just anterior to the tail fin? If so it's a Common. This young fish shows the typical pattern unusu...

Yes, it's a male Common Ancistrus, Ancistrus cf cirrhosus, apparently of the "Piebald" cultivar.

Brazil intends to eat its cake and keep it too.

There is nothing better than neritina or clithon for algae on rocks tank walls and other flat surfaces Yes, they're excellent algae-eaters, much better than any fish I know. However, there's some significant downsides with Neritina : they'll starve if there isn't heavy algal growth as they will not...