Was that second spawn actually two spawns at once? The mystery may be solved! Dad's already on eggs for two days, and another female is back in his bamboo laying MORE eggs!

Cheers,
Eric
Rineloricaria lanceolata: One male. One bamboo pipe. Two spawns at once? TWICE?

Nice. Did you collect the eggs? Have they spawned before?

Hi Jeanne, so far, I've pulled out only 3 or 4 dead from the first spawn. I imagine a few more have have died, but I haven't seen more dead bodies from that box and I still have at least 100 of the one-month old babies. So survival rate is over 90% at this time.

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Thank you.

Congratulations! I hope they are fertile and do well!

Best,
Eric

This morning, after I fed the babies from the first two sets of babies, I was rethinking the weird dynamic of the second spawn: The first eggs started hatching on day 12 of incubation, a day later than the first spawn (that in itself is no big deal). However,... By day 17 of incubation, there were a...

Interviewing an uninvolved scientist is a common practice when reporting on scientific findings. I don't know why.

No matter, you're famous! What's next? Social influencer?

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sturiosoma wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 09:12 Oh NO just when I thought there might be something fun to do here.

Jeanne

LOL. Sorry to disappoint.

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CW027, also Colombian, is similar.

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Catfish-ologist wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 00:47 Those are Balroglanis Sp. Peru.
I know the guy that runs that place. He has helped me get some pretty unique woodcats!

Hi Catfish-ologist... Is that the same thing as what we have here as Centromochlus macracanthus?

Hi Jools. I randomly clicked on the Fun Stuff page today... haven't been there in a while. The page didn't load and I received this error: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_contributor_from_id() in /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/common/functions/_articles.php:416 Stack trac...

Better luck this time. Can you remove "Big Daddy" to a different tank so that he can't either eat the eggs or bother the smaller dad male? If that's not possible, how about cutting your filter uplift and creating a "swappable" segment so that when any dad spawns on the pipe, you ...

bekateen wrote: ↑23 Mar 2023, 00:35I don't want to sound greedy, but I was expecting the parents to have spawned again by now.

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Apparently I spoke too soon! New spawn in progress this morning, 2023-03-23!

I left town for 5 days on March 15; at that time, the dad with spawn #2 was still sitting on A LOT of eggs, even though there were plenty of babies already hatched and swimming around the box. I left a student to take care of the fry and watch for dad to finish hatching the eggs while I was gone. He...

Errero Porto, F. (2023). The Contributions of species Rineloricaria pentamaculata (Loricariidae:Loricariinae) in a karyoevolutionary context. Cytogenetic contributions of Rineloricaria pentamaculata. Caryologia . https://doi.org/10.36253/caryologia-1611 https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/caryolog...

Jools wrote: ↑22 Mar 2023, 19:27IIRC, a synonym of C. leucomelas is found in the Orinoco, but pretty sure it's not exported. Will check when I get time.

Jools

Corydoras(ln9) sp(cw115) or Corydoras(ln9) sp(c079)? Not Orinoco but in the drainage.

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Here's the distribution of Corydoras(ln9) leucomelas records on file at GBIF.org. Definitely in Colombia, and one record is along the Rio Irindiri, close to the Atabapo and Orinoco.

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Thanks. I haven't seen an update lately on the list.

dos Reis, R.B., Wosiacki, W.B, Ferrer, J., Donin, L.M., & W.J. da Graça. (2023). A new species of Cambeva (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from an area of high anthropogenic impacts in the headwaters of Rio Iguaçu, Southern Brazil. Canadian Journal of Zoology . https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2022-0...

Le, N. S., & Duong, T. Y. (2023). Sexual dimorphism and reproductive biology of Cephalocassis borneensis (Siluriformes: Ariidae), a paternal mouthbrooding fish in the Mekong River. Journal of Fish Biology . doi:10.1111/jfb.15378 https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15378 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d...

That didn't take long. Congratulations!

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A sighting is always welcome!

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Hi Jeanne,

How big are these? Any more spawns? Are these in the same tank? Do you have sand and gravel in different parts of the tank?

Cheers,
Eric

Hi naturalart. Across the top of the page, find the "My Stuff" tab. Click on it to find "My Wishlist." Click on it. You can remove any items shown there using the "Remove" link / trashcan icon to the far right of each species. Screenshot_20230319-090456_Chrome.jpg To ad...

Leporacanthicus heterodon is really high up on my list of "big plecos" ... err, big in my concept... for future tank expansion.

God luck with them.

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Great to see, thank you Eric so much! Our P. pictus haven't changed so much with age so far (~7yo). IIRC Shedd has a very large group of them with perhaps other Pimelodus mixed in. Sadly, I didn't get a picture or video of the Pimelodus. There were a lot. Maybe 15-25? I don't recall but the group w...

Out on a family trip for a relative's birthday in Chicago. Yesterday was a trip to the Shedd Aquarium. They have a nice series of displays in their Amazon exhibit. Didn’t get pics of all the catfishes I saw, but got a few. There was also a nice tank with a school of Pimelodus . I expected P. pictus ...

It works! Thanks Jools!

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I have 5 tanks in my cart at Petco but no money to pay for them, so I opened a go fund me account that reads, Can you help this dying hobbyist who has only 5yr. to live at the most, Jeanne is a hobbyist and she really, really loves raising catfish, and Jeanne is also a long time Registered Member a...

What kind of plecos? I usually treat with PraziPro, then tank the fish with healthy common Ancistrus and let the poop accumulate. I think they new fish get inoculated by the poop germs of the healthy fish.

Good luck,
Eric