Looks like a baby Synodontis eupterus to me.

Cheers,
Eric

I've never had a rimless tank. Is it impossible to have a cover?

Cheers,
Eric

How long have you had him?

Male.

As an aside, he looks underfed. I hope you can get him into good condition.

Good luck,
Eric

The names are accepted as available because no one has bothered to investigate thoroughly if they are Code-compliant. This is exactly the same situation as for Glyptothorax chavomensis until we confirmed that the name is not available. Thanks. I appreciate getting to understand this process at a be...

There is a possibility that none of the names published in this journal since 2011 are available, since the names are not registered in ZooBank and the journal seems to be electronic only. This same author has been publishing like this before and has named several species that are considered accept...

For those with access, here's the link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos-Ardila-Rodriguez/publication/375993174_Trichomycterus_zapatocaensis/links/65666cdf3fa26f66f43576c0/Trichomycterus-zapatocaensis.pdf

Trichomycterus zapatocaensis

Cheers, Eric

Congratulations!

Wulfes, R., Traunspurger, W. & Ptatscheck, C. (2023). The armored catfish Corydoras aeneus shapes the meiofaunal community due to predation and disturbance-induced water column dispersal. Hydrobiologia , 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05408-y https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s...

The page for the species on these claim they can be sexed using the pelvic fins, stating males have extended points? Yes this is true. If you're fish are mature, I see only one fish with extended pelvic fins, although the difference is not dramatic in your fish (maybe not fully mature, or maybe nee...

I think at least 1M:1F. But easier to sex from looking at upper lip, I think.

Cheers, Eric

Rineloricaria stellata in the Lower Rio Uruguay and in the Rio Cuareim (Quarai) Rineloricaria zaina in the Rio Cuareim (Quarai) Rineloricaria sanga in the Rio Cuareim (Quarai) Loureiro, M., Bessonart, J., & A. B. Aguilar-sosa, 2023. Nuevos registros de Rineloricaria (Teleostei: Siluriformes) pa...

Loureiro, M., González-Bergonzoni, I., Liotta, J., Bessonart, J., Juarez, R., Menvielle, E. and Lorenzo, E., 2023. Registro de Hypostomus ternetzi (teleostei: siluriformes) para el río Uruguay bajo. Boletín de la Sociedad Zoológica del Uruguay, 32(1), pp.e32-1. https://doi.org/10.26462/32.1.2 https:...

Freitas MO, Hauer A, Dalcin RH, Ossa-Guerra LED, Artoni RF, Moura RL, Abilhoa V (2023) New records of Aspidoras fuscoguttatus Nijssen & Isbrücker, 1976 (Callichthyidae, Corydoradinae) from the São Francisco river basin, Brazil. Check List 19(6): 901-908. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.6.901 https:/...

Congratulations @Shovelnose ! Balaji Vijayakrishnan & Praveenraj Jayasimhan. 2023. Amblyceps crassioris, a new sisoroid catfish from Odisha, India (Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae). J. Fish Biol. First published: 21 November 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15599 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...

Jools wrote: ↑21 Nov 2023, 20:07Hi Eric,

I'm not seeing this - could you make sure you do a hard browser cache refresh and just check it's your browser hasn't cached something funky?

Cheers,
Jools

Good call. I hit the hard refresh and everything looks good. Sorry for the scare.

Cheers,
Eric

Hi Jools, In the last two days or so, some recent update or changes to the website have resulted in either the menu header or the upper advertising frame covering the old stuff at top of page: Quick Links, FAQ, Notifications, Private Messages, and member login icon. It's not an insurmountable issue,...

Chen, W., Xiang, D., Gao, S., Zhu, S., Wu, Z., Li, Y., & Li, J. (2023). Whole-genome resequencing confirms the genetic effects of dams on an endangered fish Hemibagrus guttatus (Siluriformes: Bagridae): a case study in a tributary of the Pearl River. Gene, 148000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene....

Congratulations! As far as your bad news that some are loose in the tank, my experience with Hypancistrus is that the parents will leave the babies alone.

Good luck with them!

Cheers, Eric

Candeiro, C.R.A., Brito, P.M., Cavin, L., Alves, Y.M., Canile, F., Muniz, F., Queiroz, G.K., Santos, D. and Toriño, P., 2023. First record of siluriformes from the northernmost portion of the Bauru Group (upper cretaceous) in the center-west region of Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences...

Dalcin, R. H., Ossa-Guerra, L. E. D. L., Artoni, R. F., & Abilhoa, V. (2023). Complete mitochondrial genome of four Scleromystax barbatus (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) populations. Neotropical Ichthyology, 21, e230025. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0025 https://www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/dQr...

Update on these fish: Since August, work and a little travel have been keeping me busy and I never got to tear this tank down until today. Sadly, there are no remaining Chaetostoma aff. microps. On the flip side, these Pseudopimelodus are doing well. They've all grown significantly, arriving in Augu...

Okay thanks!

Thanks for providing the link. It is in German language so I will see how I can translate that. Appreciate your help... A relatively quick way to translate the text is to take a screen capture of the text, then use Google lens to convert to text and then copy text into google translate. Work one co...

Hi Jools, I just added the new Glyptothorax. When I pressed submit, I received this error: phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/admin/functions/add_species.php on line 90: Undefined array key "name" [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.ph...

I'm inclined to say L136c, but I know there's a lot of variation. Is L136c a tank-bred strain of L136 to make white spots bigger?

Cheers,
Eric

Hi Pleko_Fur777,

I never use Potassium permanganate as a QT. It's a very strong drug and can be very harmful to fishes. I won't say I'm the best example of how to QT, but I think most people stay away from that because of its toxicity.

Cheers,
Eric

Hi TTA, Thanks for the feedback. Here's a link to the manufacturer's page: https://www.penningtonaquagarden.com/product/inpond-5-in-1-300/ Here's the owner's manual: https://www.penningtonaquagarden.com/wp-content/uploads/1057882_7.pdf This is the model 300. Flow rate is only 190 gal/hr... Not bad, ...

Kubicek, K. M., Britz, R., & Conway, K. W. (2023). Comment on ‘A standardized terminology of spines in the order Siluriformes (Actinopterygii: Ostariophysi)’by Ballen and de Pinna (2021). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlad159. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad159 https://acade...

Growing in the aquarium hobby is a series of trials, successes and failures. Here's my next trial. Picked up this beauty with UV sterilizer tonight. This is going into my greenhouse 75 gallon tank that is chronically green with suspended algae. Let's see how how well it works.