It's a great report, do you have pictures to go with it too? I was wondering as the text seemed to reference them?

Cheers,



Jools

Sure, I bought it from Wharf Aquatics after seeing it online. I'd expect it to be between $300 and $400 if ever in US. Roadtrip with my son to pick it up which was nice too. They were really good at the shop but did say it had been a really odd fish to settle in. It was the only one on sale, the ...

I have dissected specimens purchased from fish markets in Sumatra before, and their guts were full of very fine detritus (looks like substrate from large rivers). They probably ingested the substrate for the small invertebrates buried in them. The size of their mouths suggest that they can't eat ...

So, I have long sought this species and now I have a good-sized male swimming around at home. First experiences are that Bagrichthys hypselopterus is very odd fish.

It is very mobile, paddling around its tank but it often stays near the surface. I've seen it eating small sinking food, but it is far ...

Will get to this as soon as I can, thanks for reporting.


Jools

I've been told more than once that the female fish will exhibit blue/green eggs when gravid. I can't quite make that out, but it could be two males "discussing" a good potential spawning site or it could be a pair establishing themselves.

This species hasn't been spawned in captivity, or at least ...

Ah, RIP Phil - sad to see the end of his story. Good luck with your next fishy endeavour.

Cheers,

jools

Gotcha, thanks Eric.

Jools

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 ...

Yes, sorry all, bogged down in the image handler re-write - nearly seven weeks I've been at it.

Cheers,

Jools

Excellent, thank you. That matches what my gut tells me about these guys. One day I'll try growing out some other talking cats to try to see if that holds true more broadly.

Cheers,

Jools

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

So, I got a way into the cory renaming thing and, with a lot of help (thanks, @Bekateen), the names are all up to date. However, what this, and poor site performance, led me to find out is how we handle images is out of date. Any not very efficient either.

Written by @Rusty Lalkaka late in the last ...

OATA asked to help spread the word about this survey from a research student who is examining the trade in plecos.

Erin Foad is currently completing an MSc by research in Biodiversity Management at the University of Kent with a focus on the trade in plecos.

She says: “My research aims to provide ...

On May 27, 2025 Dreahmhost, our server provider, will be performing proactive maintenance on their MySQL VPS. During this maintenance window we anticipate approximately 30 minutes of intermittent connectivity disruptions to that MySQL service. All other DreamHost services will remain unaffected. We ...

I was thinking about this and I couldn't understand why, if this was the case, that all mobile phone access wouldn't fall foul of the regularly switching IP problem. It boils down to AT&T not sorting themselves out as you say but, looking at the logs, there is virtually no other examples of this ...

That does look like a lightsabre hanging on the tank! Here's a pic of a similar tank with some stuff growing out of it.

Probably this is . Pretty one mind you.

Cheers,

Jools

So, the old fishroom (v2.0) I had to shut down and sold everything off or donated fishes to the Blue Planet Aquarium in Denmark. The room was then converted into an ensuite bedroom for our son (the plumbing came in handy) and we gutted the water tank space in the attic.

Covid then happened and our ...

There has been an awakening.

We are back up and running.

Cheers,

Jools

Morning all,

The forum will be down from 0900 GMT today while we upgrade the forum to V3.3.15. These are mostly technology or security changes.

Should be about 30 - 45 minutes all going well.

Full details of release v3.3.15.



Jools

Yup, agree, I've collected these in pretty much standing water about waist deep - which I've today learned are called beels. As Balaji says, leafy plants Cabomba or Myriophyllum (my new favourite plant) are where they like to hang out.

Pics below of different sp.

HTH,

Jools

If anyone can share a copy of the paper, that'd be helpful - cheers,

Jools

Fixed - I uploaded a fix for some of the server load problems and it had a few other changes - the upload failed halfway thru, I didn't notice and this was a result.

All sorted, thanks for reporting.

Cheers,

Jools

NewPlecoKeeper wrote: 16 Apr 2025, 15:58

HAMidtun wrote: 05 Apr 2025, 16:53 Following the last cory, a Wolverine Pleco (

Hopliancistrus wolverine

)

Theese live with me now, if more pictures are needed

Marius

Nice! So, maybe Halvard could do this from an existing photo, but a close-up of the mouth and the three-spine structure would be cool too.

Cheers,

Jools

Oooh, nice, I will add to the site soon. Can I ask, is there a list or searchable database of all specimens? If so, I could highlight those of interest?

Cheers,

Jools

@corywally is breeding these and there is an article on them in a recent CSG journal . It doesn't say anything about temperature but does state:

My typical cory tanks are around 80 litres in capacity, filtered using Hamburg Matten style air-driven filtration, which provides some flow in the tank ...

Given the colour bias on the photos (the white on the zebras is a little grey), and the fact the barbles are beginning to divide, my best guess would be Ancistrus triradiatus which I would expect to show a little more brown colouration.


In Ancistrus, the fry looks a lot like to parent, from the ...

How did you get on?

Cheers,

Jools