Very nice. Congratulations on getting one settled. Are more in the offing?

Cheers,
Eric

I had a similar experience when my Tatia perugiae bred last year in a heavily planted 20-gallon. Took me by surprise because I'd never seen actual spawning happen, just randomly found eggs during a cleaning. I also used a turkey baster to collect what I could find and kept them in a small fry net ...

dw1305 wrote: 05 Jun 2025, 20:48 Hi all,
Looks like Hibiscus sriacus "Hamabo". Hardy in the UK, but like a good summer to bloom well.

cheers Darrel

Thanks Darrel.


H. schizopetalus is now opened up. First bloom since I added the stems to the tank last June.

Cheers,
Eric

Random pics of one fish out in the open this morning. It hasn't yet returned to a hiding place. This is a different fish from the one pictured in my last post.

Cheers, Eric

My regular hibiscus (I think it's a type of Hibiscus syriacus or Hibiscus moscheutos ; based on the leaves, I'm leaning towards H. syriacus ) is in almost full bloom and yesterday I discovered my first blossom of the year of Hibiscus schizopetalus . I expect the latter to be open in the next day or ...

Note: From this paper, the genus Proeutropiichthys was omitted from the analysis due to a lack of recent data. No conclusions were drawn on this taxon.

Limbu, J.H., Rajbanshi, D., Hu, J., Khanal, L. and Li, C., 2025. Resolving taxonomic uncertainties in ailiid catfishes (Siluriformes: Ailiidae ...

You're welcome. Not a rush though as the main hiccup seems to be the foods, which have I think been broken for a while. Everything else submits okay if you don't try to upload a food choice at the same time.

Cheers, Eric

After the big cleaning of the tank yesterday, I have more eggs this morning in the mop. These aren't fuzzy with fungus, but they are still white and opaque - don't look good.

Sadly, the sluggish fish died overnight. I was expecting that, but I also held out hope that the big water change would help ...

Also, after uploading a photo of the eggs, the BLOG page view created placeholder file names for all future photos of fry at different ages (as if I had uploaded six more photos) then displayed messages indicating those images "were not found." I expect this is linked to the new image handling ...

And here's a weird follow up experience. After searching for eggs, I realized there was a meaningful (in a bad way) amount of fungused eggs and food in the tank, so I vacuumed the tank floor and drained/replaced about 70% of the water with fresh RO water. I also used the moment to add three handfuls ...

Thanks for the detailed report!

Cheers,
Eric

Hi Jools,

Today I created a new BLOG. When I clicked the "Add a spawning report" from the My Fish page, I obtained this error message on the initial data entry screen:
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/common/includes/my_blog_edit.php on line 13: Undefined global ...

Got to work this morning and discovered these scattered around the spawning mop, and a few under the false floor, of my Pseudomystus heokhuii tank!

All the eggs I've seen so far are fungused, but it's a start. :-BD

Temp 26C
Conductivity 63 microseimens/cm (calc TDS 32ppm)
pH 3.8-4.0 (my Hanna pH ...

Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

Cheers, Eric

Hi Phil. Sorry for your loss. Keeping a single fish for 20 years is quite a commitment.

Thanks for sharing this update.

Cheers, Eric

Singh, Y. L., & Basumatary, B. (2025). Diversity of Sisorid catfish of the genus Pseudolaguvia (Teleostei: Siluriformes) in Northeastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 125(2), 169–175. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v125/i2/2025/172625

https://recordsofzsi.com/index.php/zsoi ...

Hi annabaggins,

Stay in the hobby long enough and it's bound to happen. Always fun.

Cheers, Eric

This really does look to answer one of the big questions around these catfish. If I've read it right, the female produces proteins that "stun and shield" ingested sperm as it passes through her gut. That effect wears off as the sperm near the eggs and so fertilise the eggs like other fishes albeit ...

Not having any clue what spawning behavior looks like in this fish, that certainly looks like it could be. Let' hope so!

Cheers,
Eric

Yoshida, J., Yamamoto, M., Kamiya, J., Kondo, A., Sakaguchi, Y., Morino, N., Saito, T., Kohda, M., Awata, S., Sato, B. and Miyado, K., 2025. Seminal vesicle protein ca CA12 in Corydoras aeneus inhibits sperm motility for sperm drinking. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228(9), p.jeb250293.
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Hi Andy,

First, congrats on the H inspector spawn! That's great.

As for breeder points, yeah that's still not yet working right. Jools is aware. It's on his to finish list.

Cheers, Eric

Thanks Eric. What size where the adults when they started spawning - just trying to work out something like "they spawn at 60% of SL".

Cheers, Jools

Hi Jools,

According to my old records, I got them to the USA in 11/2022 and the first spawned in 3/2023. On the day of the first spawn, I ...

Quick update on these fish. Over the last year and a half, I lost the one fish with worms, even after repeated treatments with dewormer. I also lost one more when I was traveling for a month and I hired a caretaker.

Today I moved the remaining fish from the 10 gal tank to a 20 gal long. Bigger tank ...

Sheffield, J. 2025. Neotropical catfish diversity in rivers of the Guiana Shield: A Combined Approach Using Taxonomic, Functional, and Isotopic Tools. (Abstract). Stephen F Austin State University Undergraduate Research Conference. Faculty Sponsor: Carmen Montana Schalk (Department of Biology)
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Quick update on these. They continue to spawn about every week or two. I've got two tanks of grow-outs and new eggs yesterday needing collected.

Cheers, Eric

https://youtu.be/NOjuhmscdug

A unique looking Pterodoras from Peru labeled as Pterodoras "spotted". ANSP 181197
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Nice! I'm guessing that's not too old a specimen, given that so much pigmentation is still ...

Gkenas, C, Sequeira, V, Ribeiro, D, Gago, J, Dias, D, Verma, CR, Kumkar, P & F Ribeiro. 2025. Reproductive traits of the European catfish, Silurus glanis, during the early stages of invasion," Journal of Vertebrate Biology 74, 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.25225/jvb.24122
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Yeah, I too experienced it a while ago. Didn't report it then either. But if we don't report things, it'll take longer for Jools to find out they exist.

Cheers, Eric

Hi Jools,

Today I attempted to correct the ID of a fish on my MY FISH list. I recently got six Erethistes horai , but The.Dark.One recognized that they are in fact Erethistes minusculus . So I tried to reassign the ID using the "Change species, keep data." link. The link doesn't work. First, as far ...