Hi Jools, As I record data for repeat spawns, one thing that changes (usually growing or stabilizing at a higher number after initial spawns) is the egg count. Would it be worth or practical to add egg count/clutch size to the Further spawns category? I've prepared a graphic for what it might look l...

Impatient as I am (I blame ADD), I harvested the eggs tonight. I collected 173 good eggs, 3 bad eggs, and 32 more hatched fry from last week's spawn. About 1/4 of the eggs and fry washed out from multiple rinses through the terra cotta pot. Reflecting back on the last spawn being only 130 or so eggs...

Quokka wrote: ↑Yesterday, 16:36 Why does this post keep getting bots

Ugh. IDK why.

Cheers, Eric

Another Amblydoras nauticus spawn overnight, 18 April. Will collect the eggs tomorrow. That's only 5 or 6 days since the last spawn! I also managed to siphon out about 5 hatchlings this morning from the parents' tank and add them to the hatchling tank. Over in the hatchling tank, the older babies ar...

Those peacock bass don't miss anything!

Cheers, Eric

I had another spawn this last weekend while I was away at the SAKE event in Phoenix, Arizona. I found the eggs Sunday afternoon but didn't collect them until this morning. The eggs weren't there Friday morning, so they were laid on the eve of 12 April or 13 April. I collected 134 good eggs, 31 eggs ...

Jools wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 19:27Works fine for me - what are the wider circumstances?

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Jools

Glad it worked for you. I haven't tried since then, so I don't know if I'd get the same error today. Will look for a pic to upload and try again.

Cheers,
Eric

Oh no! It appears that my Pseudomystus heokhuii have Camallanus worms! I've started treatment with API General Cure which provides 250 mg Metronidazole and 75 mg Praziquantel per packet, treat 1 packet per 10 gallons every other day for two treatments/4 days. I've got PraziPro, which I may try after...

Hi Jools,

When I look at various pages in the CLOGs, I don't see any map pins.

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Ballen, G.A. & M.C. de Pinna. (2024). A reply to a comment on Ballen and de Pinna (2021) by Kubicek, Britz, and Conway. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p.zlae038. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae038 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolin...

Bonjour Marsien.

Bienvenue sur Planetcatfish ! Votre poissons sont .

Cheers, Éric

Here's a nostalgic and fun update to these fish: On 13 April (yesterday)... nearly 6 years to the day since my first spawn of Ancistrus sp`Rio_Ucayali` ... I was at the Southwest Aquarium Keepers Event (SAKE) in Phoenix, Arizona. There I met an old acquaintance who bought some of my Rio Ucayali fry ...

My L397 breed year round, but they are definitely seasonal in terms of the intensity of breeding. I get more spawns in mid to late summer than I do from October - March.

Your water parameters sound wonderful! What's your pH?

Cheers,
Eric

Others will be able to add better info, but L052 is noticeably 'flatter' and not as full-bodied; the eyes are larger (in comparison to the head) and located closer to the top of the skull, fin shapes and placement are slightly different, and as you noted the pattern is much more "muted", ...

The Amblydoras nauticus spawned again, this time while I was away this last weekend at the NEC annual convention. I collected 186 unhatched eggs, hatching eggs and hatched fry. Given that the fry are hatching today and that I did a big water change last Thursday (and there were no eggs Friday mornin...

Faustino-Fuster, D.R., López-castaño, J.A., Quiñones, J.M. & V. Meza-Vargas. (2024). Increasing the species diversity of the monotypic genus Pariolius Cope 1872 (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) after more than 150 years. Zootaxa , 5433 (3): 389-403 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.3.6 https://...

Fallen_Leaves16 wrote: ↑08 Apr 2024, 13:51That almost looks like L052... any chance there was a mix-up?

Good catch! Not "almost"... "is" .

Cheers,
Eric

Just got home late Sunday from the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies-NEC annual convention. Didn't buy any fish this weekend, but I did come home to find eggs in the Auchenipterichthys coracoideus tank. So they spawned either Friday, Saturday or Sunday, probably not Sunday since the eggs don't...

Hi kiwidu21, I can't speak for what species are imported to France, but in the USA, true Corydoras(ln5) nanus is almost never imported. The fish we get which looks similar to C. nanus, is Corydoras(ln5) cf_elegans . Stores sell it as C. nanus or as the "San Juan" cory. It is collected in a...

Pimelodella guato Pierre V, Slobodian V. A new species of Pimelodella (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the Paraguai basin, Brazil, with a discussion regarding its distribution. Neotrop Ichthyol. 2024; 22(1):e230110. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0110 Abstract A new species of Pimelodella...

Panda corys are known for their hedonistic indulgences with members of other cory species.

For more examples, use this search link: https://www.google.com/search?q=panda+c ... wtopic.php

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I was sick last week and mostly neglected my fish. This morning I discovered hatched Amblydoras nauticus loose in the parents' tank. It will be difficult to collect them now that they are free swimming. Given today's date, I'd estimate the spawn was around 29 March.

Kowalski, S., Haerter, C.A.G., Perin, D.P., Takagui, F.H., Viana, P.F., Feldberg, E., Blanco, D.R., Traldi, J.B., Giuliano-Caetano, L. and Lui, R.L., 2024. Karyotypic characterization of Centromochlus schultzi Rössel 1962 (Auchenipteridae, Centromochlinae) from the Xingu River basin: New inferences ...

Is it possible to breed an average size corydoras, around 5cm, in a 35x25x20cm aquarium? In the USA, that's just a little smaller than a 5 gallon aquarium. In my opinion (and it is just that - an opinion), I would say that if you're being thoughtful about the social welfare of your fish (that is, k...

Looks like a hybrid of long fin Corydoras panda and Corydoras sterbai. Do you have those in the tank?

Cheers,
Eric

naturalart wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024, 00:49Not to jump this thread, but Eric, when will you have more to sell? Maybe PM me?

Sorry to say I won't have more until they breed, darn it. They are trying my patience.

Cheers,
Eric

How is your Chinese?

Huh, that's pretty interesting... Are the eggs and fry proportionally smaller, and do they have decent hatch rates (if they hatch at all)? I still can't get over how small these guys are; would make for a great pleco for a smaller tank, if it was merely a harmless genetic mutation (which I'm guessi...

Thanks