First one looks like a . Nice looking fish.

Dunno about the second one. Reminds me of some weird hybrids I have seen, but I don't want to call your fish one without being certain.

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First fish is a .

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Sid, it looks like there is a bad router somewhere in the Netherlands that is giving you a lot of latency. It is taking 200 milliseconds to send a packet from PCat to you, which is the source of the slow down (for comparison, the same trip takes 30 milliseconds for me). Not much you/I can do about i...

Yep, the blue eyed Panaque (an undescriped Panaque sp., not Panaque suttonorum). Congrats. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for it?

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? Shooting in the dark here without a picture.

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After much time in the AMNH library, I'm happy to announce all 39 plates from Hamilton 1822, An Account of the Fishes Found in the River Ganges and its Branches are now online here: http://www.lalkaka.com/gallery/hambuch . The accompanying text has been available for a while here . The book is in th...

http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=4201

I could have sworn there was more than one topic on this, but I can't find them. They've been showing up for a while over on this side of the pond, and it looks like they're actually selling.

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Royals are pretty pokey little buggers. I wouldn't risk bodily harm to both you and the fish by picking it up. Best way to catch a fish like that without sacrificing a net is with an appropriately sized plastic jug or cup.

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You'll eventually have at least two dead yo-yos if you put a trio in a tank. Spurs behind the eyes + nasty temperament == disaster waiting to happen. For the best snail eating Botia, look no farther than B. striata. A much better community fish IME.

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Another article, this time in the New York Times. He apparently tried filching the IRS by over-valuing his donation of several million dollars worth of Stradivari cellos and violins to a symphony.

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Interesting. We have a couple and were wondering what they were.

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Err, he's an active member of this board. Try emailing or PMing him.

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They don't need live food period. You can supplement a regular diet of pellets and dry/frozen food with live inverts if you like, but they should be given sparingly and not as a staple. Keep in mind pimelodid's stomaches in the wild are usually empty, so you do not need to feed everyday. Once the fi...

There is no way to be sure of the species without cutting it open :-) The caudal spot is helpful in IDing, but I don't have the paper that explains which markings correspond to which species on hand at the moment. The husbandry requirements for all the brown otos with tail spot are identical though,...

And what "c ichlids" would those be? Discus? Chromides? Have to be more specific in a family whose husbandry requirements, aggressiveness etc. varies so much

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Feeders are a bad idea. As has been said before, tigrinus will take worms and shrimp. Feeding feeders only introduces possible sources of disease into the tank, something I wouldn't do after spending that much money on those fish!

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Do you have an exposed heater in the tank? It may have burned itself.

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Last time I checked, eBay didn't allow live animal lots. Has that policy changed?

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H. microps is not valid This is my opinion as well however Fish base still recognise the name? (just thought i'd point out another flaw). This is because A.F.A.I.K. there has been no formal publication on the subject. Never mind, found the paper here: http://wht.org/publications/serials/jsanh/abstr...

It'd probably be cheaper to buy a small compressor and use it to surface supply air. Much cheaper and easier than SCUBA

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It is quite easy to tell the two apart. There is a picture in the CateLog of a zebrinus at about the size you'd see a "Zebra kutu", if you want to compare.

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I took a lot of the pictures listed in the "regular" petricola species page. I can see why Sid calls them "giant". They are quite big (although not necessarily larger than regular petris), and have slightly different features, like a longer adipose fin, more tubular body shape an...

As for characin with the most impressive set of teath, Hydrolycus would have to take the cake:

But I digress...

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H. microps is not valid This is my opinion as well however Fish base still recognise the name? (just thought i'd point out another flaw). This is because AFAIK there has been no formal publication on the subject. However, there was another Heteropneustes species recently described: Heteropneustes l...

It won't be deadly unless you are allergic to the venom. It's similar to a bee sting... normally it's just annoying and painful, but there is a chance things could go south. I wouldn't be overly worried about it. I'm more worried about sticking my hand in my Malapterurus tank than the tank with the ...

The number of dorsal fin rays also matches H. plecostomus. I would assume it is H. plecostomus when planning for future tanks etc.

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Yes, they come in with that name. They are fairly undemanding when it comes to food and water conditions. Forum member Achim has bred the, and posted an article on his experiences with his fish here.

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F. acus is also rarely, if ever, imported for the hobby. I agree, F. vittata.

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H. microps is not valid. The basis of the description was the fusing of the anal and caudal fins, but the species is known off only one specimen, which is thought to just have a deformed tail.

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Yes, it is a plotosid endemic to Australia. More information is available here. It gets kind of big and has a taste for live fish, so I'd be concerned about one snacking on anything it can fit in its mouth.

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