Thanks! I'll be working with Prosanta Chakrabarty.
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- 17 May 2024, 15:08
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
- 14 May 2024, 14:47
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
Re: A life update?
I think I'm overdue for an update to this thread. 🤔 Things didn't work out with the lab I started my PhD in. The person I was working with turned out to be a poor fit for me. For a little while now I've been in another lab, taking a short detour working on Poeciliids. I joined my new lab knowing fro...
- 24 Apr 2024, 13:58
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: Should Olyra be in its own family? Molecular phylogenetics of ornamental catfishes of North East India
- Replies: 1
- Views: 665
Re: Should Olyra be in its own family? Molecular phylogenetics of ornamental catfishes of North East India
To answer the title question: Based on this study? No. It is all based on a single mitochondrial gene (COI) and support values for the ( Clarias magur + Olyra longicaudata ) clade are consistently low (0.584 or lower). Previous molecular work has placed Olyra nested within the Bagridae. Sullivan, Lu...
- 16 Aug 2023, 11:45
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Best websites to get comprehensive data on museum inventory?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14803
Re: Best websites to get comprehensive data on museum inventory?
VertNet, iDigBio, and FishNet2 (last seems least popular/updated) are widely used databases cataloging specimens in museum collections. The records there should generally include collection site information. How well populated these databases are depends on individual institutions digitizing their c...
- 04 May 2023, 15:15
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Banjo cat identification
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10460
Re: Banjo cat identification
That said, bunocephalus minerim and bunocephalus larai are that size, but I don't understand a lot of the anatomy talk in the chart. Epiphysial bar? Scapulo-coracoid? Most of the anatomical terms in the key are features of the skeleton. Cardoso, the author of the dissertation this key is from, was ...
- 29 Dec 2022, 15:49
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Synodontis nigriventris in a bad state
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6333
Re: Synodontis nigriventris in a bad state
I would disagree with adding further medications without fully diagnosing the root issue. In my opinion your choice of medication was appropriate. I would have called this ich, and the medications I've used successfully to treat ich in catfishes in the past also contained malachite green (viride mal...
- 11 Dec 2022, 04:31
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Reviving an aquarium club?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 791
Reviving an aquarium club?
Hello all, I am a member of the aquarium club at the school where I'm working on my PhD. This is an official school endorsed club, not a typical local aquarium club, so it has a few odd rules to work around. The undergrads running the club wanted to try to get it to be more like a real aquarium club...
- 04 Dec 2022, 17:47
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: Redefining Pareuchiloglanis
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1111
- 04 Dec 2022, 17:46
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: Parotocinclus pukuixe, new species from the rio Pardo basin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1062
- 26 Nov 2022, 19:21
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: A different new Cambeva
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2042
- 07 Nov 2022, 03:02
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Representing Planet Catfish while I...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1186
Representing Planet Catfish while I...
..teach! When I got my Planet Catfish shirt from @Jools at the All-Aquarium Catfish Convention, I was told to take pictures in it doing "something cool." I'll do many more cool things, but for a start, I thought teaching the lab for my advisor's ichthyology course might count? This week wa...
- 07 Nov 2022, 03:01
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: All-Aquarium Catfish Convention 2022
- Replies: 69
- Views: 16463
- 13 Oct 2022, 02:19
- Forum: Asian Catfishes
- Topic: Dream Bagrid
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5639
Re: Dream Bagrid
Those are gorgeous! Great find!
Looking forward to hearing about your spawning endeavors!
Looking forward to hearing about your spawning endeavors!
- 13 Oct 2022, 02:02
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: All-Aquarium Catfish Convention 2022
- Replies: 69
- Views: 16463
Re: All-Aquarium Catfish Convention 2022
As always, I had an excellent time, but it feels like it went by too fast! It's like I blinked and it was already over. It was great to see everyone! And to get to meet some more of you in person, though I didn't get to say hi to all the PC people that attended. It's the people that really make (mad...
- 31 Aug 2022, 22:06
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: All-Aquarium Catfish Convention 2022
- Replies: 69
- Views: 16463
Re: All-Aquarium Catfish Convention 2022
I will be attending! I'm really bummed it's the last one though. I had big dreams of being invited to speak at one of these one day, once I get some catfishy publications under my belt. Hope that works out Chris, will be good to see you. I am considering producing a Planet T-shirt for the event - wo...
- 02 Jan 2022, 21:57
- Forum: Asian Catfishes
- Topic: Another impulse purchase: a lone Asian bumblebee cat
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11085
Re: Another impulse purchase: a lone Asian bumblebee cat
Not something I'm working on with Kevin, is it? Yes, one of the two is. - They are super efficient egg eaters. I think several egg scattering catfishes spawn more often than we know but the chances of egg/fry survival with the parents is very, very low. Do you think Pseudomystus are egg scatterers,...
- 30 Dec 2021, 17:29
- Forum: Asian Catfishes
- Topic: Another impulse purchase: a lone Asian bumblebee cat
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11085
Re: Another impulse purchase: a lone Asian bumblebee cat
Narelle, speaking of confusion, there is also this reference in one of the articles here on Planetcatfish, a COTM article on this species: Despite the fact it is hard to find a catfish book that doesn't feature this species, surprisingly little hard fact beyond basic husbandry exists. Experiments i...
- 30 Dec 2021, 13:28
- Forum: Asian Catfishes
- Topic: Another impulse purchase: a lone Asian bumblebee cat
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11085
Re: Another impulse purchase: a lone Asian bumblebee cat
My favorite fish! <3 You want to get more, are you hoping to spawn them? (In case you haven't come across it yet, these don't do well housed in groups like your Microglanis do. They will attack each other.) Back in the day I had dreams of spawning this species and did a lot of reading that I compile...
- 15 Nov 2021, 13:20
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Thoughts on imperiled species in the aquarium trade?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2426
Thoughts on imperiled species in the aquarium trade?
I'm curious how everyone else feels about wild caught individuals belonging to imperiled (endangered, critically endangered, according to the IUCN Red List ) species being sold to the general public through the aquarium trade? In more serious fish keeping circles, there's a lot of excitement around ...
- 13 Nov 2021, 13:59
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Notorus Flavus? (Stonecat)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2955
Re: Notorus Flavus? (Stonecat)
I sure hope they're N. insignis. At least the one is definitely N. insignis ! I can confirm that with certainty. (These particular madtoms, in PA, are very familiar to me – I did my undergrad in fisheries in PA, have collected and kept N. insignis , and did research on N. flavus .) It’s just that I...
- 07 Nov 2021, 17:45
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Notorus Flavus? (Stonecat)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2955
Re: Notorus Flavus? (Stonecat)
I can only see identifying features in one fish per picture (the fish laying along the bottom of the bag in the first, and the one swimming near the surface in the second), but at least that fish is Noturus insignis . Most likely they are both the same, but clearer pictures would be necessary to con...
- 07 Nov 2021, 17:44
- Forum: Suggestions, Feature Requests and Enhancements
- Topic: Citations?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16804
Re: Citations?
Hi, I'm so sorry I never came back to this thread! I completely forgot about it - I posted it in the middle of organizing a cross country move, then got here and started a PhD, so I've been a bit distracted. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I wasn't familiar with COF previously. That was exactly ...
- 10 Jun 2021, 14:29
- Forum: Suggestions, Feature Requests and Enhancements
- Topic: Citations?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16804
Citations?
Is there any way to include some citations for CLOG pages where external sources are referenced? More than just the original description? I know not everything here can be sourced if the information comes from anecdotal reports from within the hobby, but I think it would be valuable to have a way fo...
- 14 May 2021, 12:33
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
Re: A life update?
I thought I'd tack one more thing on here - I graduated from my undergraduate program this past weekend, and thought you all might appreciate how I decorated my cap. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/700870705973166215/842725137241341982/unknown.png ( It came out much messier than planned, as I...
- 03 Apr 2021, 23:53
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
Re: A life update?
Thank you, racoll! That's pretty neat that there have been a few people in this boat. Excited to join the club!
This place is definitely something special, whoever we want to blame for it. I'm very glad I found it when I did!
This place is definitely something special, whoever we want to blame for it. I'm very glad I found it when I did!
- 31 Mar 2021, 02:29
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
Re: A life update?
We haven’t discussed anything about Pseudolaguvia specifically, but we haven’t talked about specific projects I’d be working on yet. A couple months ago we talked about a lot of exciting potential directions we could go, but nothing definite. I only just got the news on the admissions decision and w...
- 28 Mar 2021, 17:14
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
- 27 Mar 2021, 15:03
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
Re: A life update?
Thank you! Still probably a little soon on the "Dr." title, but I'm very much looking forward to earning it. P.s., What school (or do you not want to say yet)? Texas A&M! Their Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program. (A very long time ago I sent a pm to @Silurus and this school (and ...
- 27 Mar 2021, 13:32
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: A life update?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11798
A life update?
I wanted to give a small update here about an exciting change on the horizon for me. I know I've talked about this in the past some, but Planet Catfish was absolutely instrumental for me in finding my passion for freshwater fish. I don't think I would be where I'm at today at all if I hadn't found t...
- 14 Jan 2021, 12:57
- Forum: Asian Catfishes
- Topic: Are they breeding? (Pseudomystus heokhuii)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7913
Re: Are they breeding? (Pseudomystus heokhuii)
I would be curious to see a video if you get one! I also keep this species and have seen a few behaviors over the years that might have been spawning related, but nothing ever came of it that I saw. I have a group of 6 with plenty of room to hide, so if there were ever eggs laid, I missed seeing the...