Hello there!

Well, unfortunatly I haven't seen any amphibian species, on the other hand I guess this website provides the best information on amphibians you can find http://www.ra-bugio.org.br/anfibios_pererecas.php?pg=0class=pg on my town.
I know it is in portuguese, but if you click on the ...

Wow Hudson,

wonderful cats you have there, huh?
I'd love having that second one.. (the big mouth black one)
bu there is't anything like that on my area.. and no fish store would be interested in bringing it to me.

How cold is that river?
is it natural or a drainage?

Juliano

(By the way, vc fala ...

Hey Hudson!

Manaus? not fair! that is a mecca for catfishes!
Well, I guess catfish here are just different, very few species, but some are quite interesting, such as Scleromystax Barbatus.
However, my main goal when posting those pictures was, to show how road side water channels irrigating rice ...

Hello there,
Since most of identification you guys have provided me are helping me a lot, Im looking forward to identifying this guy here:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TWe35-GfqOI/AAAAAAAAAqc/kOPIKRA7XTg/s800/IMG_7196.JPG
I bought it at a local store, and I have no idea where it ...

it was collected here
at quiriri river, Santa Catarina river, Southern Brasil!
I used to have one of these guys..
but it was a new tank, probably not fully cycled and he just couldn't make it!

This stream is not far from the sea, it is like 10 km away from a mangrove bay..
but all the water comes ...

Just got him out of a cold river!

It was swimming among some darter tetras..
what is it? pimelodela?

thanks in advance

it was a joke indeed

I'll start using this "cf" everywhere!
even to name myself..

And that "cf" means I'm not 100% sure of its species?
I hope to go back to that very saame channel this weekend!
The weather is extremly hot, but it should be already starting to cool down..

Wow, thanks all!
you know what caught my attention?
most of hisonotus have been already described on my state (Santa Catarina), on their respective "type location" field, although Sta Catarina state isnt quoted on "distribution" field. I alwaus thought they were otocinclus/paraotocinclus..
And for ...

Thanks for the information, what catches my attention are those small red dots on its tail
I thought somehow that would help identifying it!

Hello all,

Once again, a few doubts..
Caught some tiny plecos on a rice paddy..
They seem all different form each other!
but these two in particular seem to be otocinclus.. but, which species?!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TaR-qDzf6RI/AAAAAAAABH8/CX_7h0P5xUI/s912/IMG_7684.JPG
is ...

Hello there,

Last weekend I was idle at home, and I decided to go check some rice paddies on the rural area of my town (southern Brazil). According to a friend, they were surrounded by a net of irrigation channels, where he once spotted some interesting catfishes.
So, I packed my things, and went ...

thanks a lot Jools!

no probolems Mat!
I'll take a look at it soon as it becomes available again..
you have already helped me a lot..

Ian,
this one is the first I got from hat river
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TVvx2rfwJNI/AAAAAAAAAgo/2LzDtmOnKPw/s912/IMG_7025.JPG
isn't it a barbatus?
https://lh6 ...

is that so?
kronei?
Too bad the S. Kronei page isn't working..
I want more details on how to raise, and possibly breed them.
My city is one of the hottest cities on my state, and that stream's average temperature is 15ºC
all too weird..

Anyway, thanks for the info!

hey there Yann!

Well, I'm afraid you are more than right about the corydora, it is definetly an ehrhardti.
Talking about the ancistrus, I still think it is a multispinis, due to the location it was caught in, and the pattern of its spots.
When it comes to the Rineloricaria, I give up, simply ...

same here!
well, goldfish are common here probably because of the large japanese community (the biggest outside japan)..
and stuff like fighting betta are used by the government to fight potential dengue fever mosquitos (it is not that common, but I heard of that before)
.. a clown loach is ...

Yes Mat, I have to agree with you.

But you know what is weird?
S. Barbatus is now an "exotic" species, cause most of the lfs stuff have already become too "common"..
and I don't think any local fisherman attends those rivers..
just a minor net of streams, no big deal, and the biggest fish there is ...

That's right!
The fun fact is, that the water on this stream is so clean, and unpoluted that it's also the main water source on this area. It is only 20 minutes away from a 600k inhabitants city centre. The temperature is not as hot as in the amazon, the water is a little cold though(20ºC, quite ...

friend of mine filmed this where I caught mine..
gotta love them

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Well, I have to agree on the ancistrus multispinis issue!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TVh4PMou7MI/AAAAAAAAAVc/QUrcHaLKJts/s912/IMG_6944.JPG
this is a male I caught at the very same spot a few weeks before
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TWe71yRPquI/AAAAAAAAAsA ...

too bad I don't have any underwater material made in place..
All I see there are some boring brazilian cichlids (cichlids aren't boring, but those are!)
darter tetras are veeery common, rinoloricaria/hemiloricaria, and as far as I can tell, those scleromystax!
I'll try some different streams where ...

it is called Quiriri River, southern Brazil
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TZDMdIHUvSI/AAAAAAAABCI/Q4CBgqIg63o/s1440/view_quiriri.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TXgair8mPjI/AAAAAAAAAv0/E-_qnRWoVXE/s912/IMG_7341.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com ...

exactly as I thought..
I tried garlic mix on its food..
but it seems its only getting worse!
I don't expect it to make it.. unfortunatly

I just want to make sure which is this disease and how to prevent recurrence..

thanks for the info on its identification..
at first I thought it was a ...

Well, I guess I will never get to see this little guy grow bigger enough to identify it
but, can you guys help me diagnosing which disease is this?
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TY-Ipex3DtI/AAAAAAAABA8/JRzzv9mOpGA/s912/IMG_7515.JPG
he is full of small white dots just like icthyo ...

Hey there,
Had some fun at a local river this weekend and took some pictures..
I would be pleased if anyone could help me identify these critters!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TY-FoHKEkYI/AAAAAAAAA-0/o5mxHGz4uy8/s912/IMG_7496.JPG
I guess this one is a rineloricaria..
https ...

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_5v5sJIbR0UQ/TXwV2Y6qxfI/AAAAAAAAA5M/6l4NCGlDxU0/s912/IMG_7422.JPG
another picture of this unitendifyed catfish
he is kind of shy! so it is being hard to take pitures of him..
and another one of my Scleromystax Macropterus, for me there is still hope it is a small ...

Southern Brazil!
in fact, most of my catfishes I collected them myself...
and I gotta say my mom loves catfish soup (!!!)

I just love them.. in the wild/tank

Too bad the Scleromystax macropterus are forbidden.. I don't really think that the southern Brazilian states are threating it to extinction. The main problem on fish smuggling comes from northern/northeastern states, where the real beauty is!