You're also right about it being a hybrid. Husbandry should be similar to that of most other riverine synos.

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Yes, they are great as both caves and a buffer. You can even bury them in the substrate for a convenient and invisible buffering solution. I never even bother boiling the shells... shuck fresh oysters and them toss them in the tank, leaving the fish to clean up any scraps of flesh.

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IME, S. lima seem to like Hikari carnivore pellets the most. If you haven't already, I recommend you give those a try.

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Power heads also wreak havoc on most computer monitors. Only the higher end monitor models have enough shielding to prevent the strong magnetic interference from having an effect on flicker. Something else to think about when you put that tank in your SO's computer room

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You could, for example, find them in the Nile basin, Chad, Niger, Senegal, Gambia or Volta River.

If you do not list your location in your profile, it is impossible to answer this question more precisely.

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Found it: Andrea Krauss and Christa Neumeyer, Wavelength dependence of the optomotor response in zebrafish (Danio rerio), Vision Research, Volume 43, Issue 11, May 2003, Pages 1275-1284. The action spectrum of motion detection in zebrafish (Danio rerio) was measured using the optomotor response in t...

I could very well be wrong :-) This "fact" may just be an urban legend of sorts, but I have heard it repeated as fact on several occasions. This paper may shed some light (pardon the pun) on the situation: Peter C. Gehrke, Influence of light intensity and wavelength on phototactic behaviou...

benetton, If your fish is either of these species (which it probably is), you will have a lot of trouble housing them down the road. Arius require salt and grow large, as Crysichtys has pointed out, and Pangasius grow even larger. You may want to consider returning these fish, since theyy are not fi...

Yes, catfish eyes are insensitive to red light, just like many other (all?) fish. However, I wouldn't recommend switching from normal wavelength light bulbs to red light during the day, as this could throw your fishes' night and day cycle off (they would feel like it was dark 24/7). What you can do ...

In my experience, they are great community fish that are fine in slow water. However, they do best in planted tanks. YMMV, but I wouldn't hesitate to add one to a well established community tank.

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Maybe the larger ones like S. tanganaicae, but I doubt the smaller species are big predators. I'd worry more about fishing eagles and Bathybates than synos if I were a fish in the lake.

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Those being Sid's fish.

Those are about as close as you can get to the species Matthes described.

Compare them to a paratype:


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The rules are in place to keep this board an environment conducive to intelligent conversation and information sharing, not to stroke our egos or make life difficult for anyone. If you don't want to play by them, please leave. In addition to a location being required, double posting is not allowed. ...

Robert Schelly, Roger Bills and John Lundberg have just returned from a collecting expedition to Lake Tanganyika. I took a look at a couple of their field photos, and was amazed to see Phyllonemus spp. over 20 cm long. There are apparently several undescribed species in the lake, with Paul Skelton a...

I'd stay away from the Nandus if I were you. They get pretty big, and are quite nasty. Not sure about how nasty bichirs (BTW, they get big! I have seen a presered E. calabaricus in the yard long range, and quite fat to boot) are, but if they assert themselves at all the S. decorus will suffer. The a...

How we end up that high (no. 2 of the unsponsored sites) is really something. That is definitely where all the goons are coming from.

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IIRC, a member of this forum, Greggo, has both the "captive bred" and real deal. The hybrids lose their bright coloring early on and turn a uniform grayish, similar to S. sorex. S. sorex may be a possible species in the mix that forms the hybrids.

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Jools,

It looks like the quotes in the filename are tripping catscanâ?¢ up. Wonder if using character encoding in the img tag would do the trick. I think it would be simpler to just rename the files.

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There is an off chance they are actually , which stay much smaller than any real Pangasius.

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M0on,

Any chance of getting some better pics for the catelog?

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SynMan,

You'll have to find a better place to host the pictures. The Yahoo space ain't cutting the mustard.

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Wood wrote: Sure looks to me like L104 Painted Peckoltia

Yes, definitely one of the complex species.

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Simply dragging a big net through the lake won't work; due to decompression, most fish will be dead if you haul it up!

Yes, IIRC the collectors use giant anchored cages to slowly bring the fish up. Supposedly takes several days to allow the fish caught at depth to off gas.

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Yes, Keith Pyontek and Aquaticus. Nice guy, and a pity he left the business. Spoke to him on the phone a few months ago and asked if he had an intention of getting back into importing. He says he is looking into buying some property to start Aquaticus up again, which would be very nice.

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The Armke's are one source. High prices and sensational IDs are common. For example, [url=http://www.ohiexchange.com/armke/images ... y_blue.jpg]Synodontis sp. â??Sky Blueâ?

It's really an assumption on my part that it was a cave spawn. I think it was one because there were other fish in the tank at the time of the spawn besides the multis, and if it had been on the substrate every last one of them would probably have been eaten. It may have been on the substrate and a ...

Breeding with hosts will give you much higher yields IMO. We have had the northern variety cave spawn, and the number of fry that came out of it in the end was pitiful compared to what I hear of when spawning w/ hosts. The fry also seem to grow MUCH slower when spawned w/o a host.

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michelle56 wrote:Those are cute Christina. ;)

Cheers!,
HMH

michelle56,

How does this add to the topic at hand in any way? Please stop making completely trivial posts. Consider this your final warning before a ban.

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Jon, what are you trying accomplish here? It would help if you were more specific.

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