see y'all there!

A good buddy of mine just went collecting in Uruguay and brought me back a few species. I am a bit of junkie for these little sucker mouths. This species was collected in Gato, Uruguay. I can provide a shot of the collection point as well. They are not as green in appearance as the other aky's I hav...

I will email you them, Jools, but here they are for the thread: http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msjinkzd/pairofotomura_zps508b6a2a.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msjinkzd/otomuratopview_zpsda1f9c2b.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msjinkzd/muranosemarkings_zpsb8c6f...

O. mura seems to be them, thanks so much Jools!

Would you like for me to get better, more detailed pictures for the CatElog?

These came in from Colombia, and have a much browner color with a more scooped head. they are pretty small right now, at just under 1", but look very different from most of the typicl otos i get in upon import. Any opinions on species? http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msjinkzd/Otocinclu...

Shane does a great job presenting! I am really looking forward to this convention!

yea, i really wish they stayed this little and attractive, lol. I will list them up once I qt them. They are very cute, right now. Just not really my market demographic!

Here are pictures, now that they are in my possession

haha, no! Air driven filtration with a central pump. This is what I get for trying to get more parotos! LOL

ha, just my luck. Thanks guys. I will still update with better pictures tomorrow. WTF am I, who likes nano fish, going to do with 70 fish that get to 7" LOL. Any clue on a retail value?

I won't know anything for sure until I get them tomorrow- that is just what the exporter told me (about adipose). I will get decent pics of side, top, and bottom tomorrow when they arrive.

ugh, i really hope not. Those get larger than I want in this fish room.
I will post better pictures after I have them tomorrow.

Hey guys! I am back with another puzzle for those more experienced than myself. I recently imported fish from Peru again, and surprise surprise, I have no idea what this little ditty is. They are pretty tiny and were imported as a Parotocinclus, no adipose though. Can anyone give me a starting place...

thanks, have a trio set up in a smaller tank to hopefully collect eggs- the "display" the entire group is in is just too hectic to collect eggs (quite a huge mass of wood) with my current schedule.

they look great, Sumer!

some of the females http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msjinkzd/centrotopshot_zps85b2499f.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msjinkzd/centrofemale_zpsd20dff69.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msjinkzd/purpleoil_zpsa553b1fd.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/msji...

their tank is so dark with tannins,pics suck.I can pull some out to the photo tank soon to get shots. My females are absolutely bursting with eggs

oops, just saw this as I was coming to update I have eggs! At the advice of Regina Spotti (she came by and purchased some as well), I stopped doing water changes and removed the light from the tank. It has been about a month or so, and today I found about a dozen eggs scattered around the driftwood....

I sold the last that I was willing to part with to Regina Spotti. Hoping she has luck breeding them. She gave me some pointers; keep the lights out, feed less "shelly" foods (i.e. not too much daphnia, stick to worms), and stop doing water changes. I have noticed that since i changed my fe...

As an aside, I had them in a relatively large tank- 75g, they were very active, but I noticed some were looking a bit more thin than I would like. I moved them into a 20 Long and all have noticeably plumped up with no different treatment. I think the space was just too vast for them to feed well. Th...

afaik, i did not get an email! Feel free to pester me, I have many females looking more than a bit rotund, and have set up a few tanks with ddifferent setups to play around with breeding. Fingers crossed!

You are welcome to my images

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oops! Sorry fro the delayed response. I have pulled them off my list because I am absolutely infatuated with them. I have them set up in a couple different tanks trying to get them to breed. Once I am successful, I will keep a small group and then sell off the remaining. Every single person who got ...

Thanks! I am working on improving my photography. Hopefully a camera upgrade is in my near future :) I just cannot get over how much I love these fish. Their handfeeding is such fun behavior for such a small fish. They are clearly eating well! I think you can almost see eggs in the females, so I am ...

I took a minute today when doing maintenance to snap pics of the two genders of this fish:

In Regina's COTM article: http://www.planetcatfish.com/cotm/cotm.php She kept them low 70s and had that species breed at 74. Based on that, and no real contrary information, and their seemingly normal behavior, I have not altered their temperature. As the seasons shift, their tank should be up to th...

I am keeping them around 72 (this time of year), I don't generally use heaters unless absolutely required as my ambient water temp in the fishroom does not get any colder than this even in winter. I am not honestly sure what is ideal for these fish. They are obviously eating well and active.

handfeeding:


pardon the algae- they share a tank with nerite snails so I do not scrape it.

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