I was away for 3 days for the July 4th Independence Day weekend. A late night inspection tonight revealed fresh eggs (very yellow too!) under the false floor plus eggs with embryos about to hatch in the spawning mop plus several fry of obviously different sizes and ages.
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The fish continue to spawn with more eggs laid today. With this knowledge, it seems more appropriate to call this a single spawning over multiple days, rather than thinking of each day being a unique spawn.

Unfortunately, with six fish in the tank and an unknown male:female ratio, IDK if all the ...

You are doing quite well with them. Wonderful!

Cheers,
Eric

Viktor, your wide angle lens makes the aquarium frame look like a TV screen!

Cheers,
Eric

The link is now working: caught in act spawning. Take a look. The best view of their amplexus and an egg drop is between 1:30 and 2:15 in the video.

bekateen wrote: 03 Jul 2025, 06:10 Late in the afternoon, caught in the act!

Cheers, Eric

Direct link: Spawning the Burmese Moth Catfish

Looks like it didn't upload properly. I'll try again tomorrow.

Late in the afternoon, caught in the act!

Cheers, Eric

Direct link: Spawning the Burmese Moth Catfish

Follow up information: It's now 5:40 pm here. The Erethistes minusculus have continued to lay more eggs in the spawning mop and among the Java moss throughout the daylight hours.

I've witnessed a pair of fish swimming back and forth through and around the spawning mop, but I haven't actually ...

I'd agree with the C. simulatus ID. For the other fish, it appears to have a straight snout, which would imply a Brochis(sc3) species; for that, I think there are a few prospects, all similar:
Brochis(sc3) ambiacus
Brochis(sc3) delphax
Brochis(sc3) sp(cw057)
Brochis(sc3) sp(cw082)
Brochis ...

New spawns continue! There are fresh eggs in the mop this morning!

Spawn #1: 19 June (discovered at 5mm SL - my guess is these are already about 1 week old)
Spawn #2: 01 July (discovered at 13mm SL - these are probably at least 1-2 weeks older than the fry found on 19 June)
Spawn #3: 01 July ...

I can do that, but I'll try to grow them out further first.

Cheers, Eric

Bebefinn wrote: 02 Jul 2025, 01:08It has been brought to my attention they are expecting you

LOL. The way you wrote that... it could be good, or it could be bad.

Cheers, Eric

These guys are in with what I believe to be T. Gyrina and t. Brunnea but I wanted to double check if my ID for these guys was good since I’m hoping to take some home.

While you’re here you should visit ARCOF and their aquarium. Its small but its the best aquarium in south america imo. Dr Anthony ...

Hi Bebefinn. Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

I believe that fish gets sold as Tatia aulopygia , although the ID is questionable. It's sometimes listed as T. cf. aulopygia (as you see in the book) to reflect the uncertainty. Local retailers, if I recall, sell it at Tatia dunni , but again the ID is ...

Definitely see new hatchlings today. First, I witnessed one egg hatch under the false floor and saw another unhatched egg, then I picked up the mop and shook it out to discover fry of three sizes. Now I'm convinced the largest fry are not simply better fed than smaller siblings. This is definitely ...

Can you pop the parents into another tank temporarily?

Hi edds, yes I could move the parents, but I'm leaving town in a week or so for an extended trip and I'll need to have someone else caretaking the fish. I'd rather not make changes among the adults just before leaving. Since there are still ...

Today, after looking again at how much bigger the fry are loose in the tank, I gambled and released the fry from the fry box back into the parents' tank. Fingers cruised they don't get eaten.

Cheers, Eric

10 day update: There are still a few fry loose in the tank, in addition to the fry in the fry box. What I'm seeing, which I've seen before in other species, is that the fry surviving in the tank are growing much faster than the fry in the fry box. I presume the main explanation is that there are ...

This paper states it uses a preparation made from "Arabian Gulf catfish" and cites three papers for technique. Those papers used what is described as either Netuma bilineata or Netuma thalassina , depending on which prior citation you check.

Al-Hassan, J.M., Renno, W.M., Oommen, S., Nair, D., Paul ...

Raunelli Montoya, G.S. 2024. Morpho-functional variation in the genus Sturisoma (TELEOSTEI: SILURIFORMES: Loricariidae) in the Peruvian Amazon: Ecological and evolutionary implications. Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.

Raunelli Montoya, G.S. 2024. Variación morfo-funcional ...

Viktor Jarikov wrote: 06 Jun 2025, 04:39

Dang that looks painful.

It's fascinating to watch these fish in your tanks Viktor. Thanks.

Cheers, Eric

From The End Is Nigh :
Dear Planet Catfish,

It is clear from the reading of Nostradamus that the world will end when L666 is pictured in a source called DATZ. What L number are we up to now?

Concerned,
United States of America
4th July 2000

Dear Concerned,

Between 1988 and 1995 there were 210 ...

Here's one of the fry today, at least 6mm SL.

Excellent. Thanks HH.

Cheers, Eric

Hi All,

In doing some literature research on peat swamps, I found a paper saying that Acrochordonichthys rugosus (and another species in the same genus) is found there, at least in the North Selangor peat swamp forest (NSPSF), Selangor ( REFERENCE HERE ). But our CLOG page for this species states ...

Hi Jools,

Not trying to make work for you, but the following articles have broken image links, or other issues if noted so. (FWIW, originally, I stumbled upon two SW articles, but then later decided to stroll through all of SW and the ABOUT & HELP tabs to see if other issues existed... needless to ...

Oh, cool new species.

It's mentioned as such in the paper [Bagarius sp. ‘Salween’ Ng & Kottelat, 2021:141(Salween River).] So i think it's a safe bet. But, best to await @Silurus to confirm.

Cheers,

Jools

Thanks for the info. I posted just before heading for work, so haven't had time to read ...

Is the same as the new B. protos? I added a clog tag in the above post, but I didn't add B. protos to the CLOGs until I know if these are the same.

Cheers, Eric