How did you get on?

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Jools

That is covering a lot of bases! It's a faff, but another approach would be to keep only females in the tank and then add a male from time to time.

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Jools

https://www.planetcatfish.com/synodontis_sp_hybrid(3) I would say. 100% not S. angelicus.

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Jools

I am glad to hear that. I am much shorter than usual on time at the moment, and I am just barely keeping up wiith mandatory work.

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Jools

Yes, I would certainly be interested in that. You could post them here, but emailing them to me (per species?) works too. It is especially the species where we have no photo that is of most value. Let's try a few for starters and see how we go?

Brilliant concept and thanks for thinking of us ...

The lower one looks like a male - I can't make out the other.

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Jools

I hope to be able to look at this and several other issues in the coming week or so.

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Jools

Yup, you're doing it right. Should be around 8 for .

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How many rays does it have in the dorsal fin?

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Tap water can change overnight as different additives or sources are used by the water authorities - more often in summer - but it is a common issue.

There are a lot of meds going/have gone into the tank. I'd go with Eric's water suggestions and stop all other treatments except potentially melafix ...

The catfish is shedding skin likely in reaction to something new in the water. Where is the water sourced (e.g. from the faucet/tap) and what do you use to treat it?

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Jools

Ta!

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No worries, I have got it thanks to @Balaji - enjoy Norse hospitality!

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Turns out these were both the same issue - $20 a month on Cloudflare and all sites back up and running.

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Jools

Much work on this but we now have a new line of what's called "edge defence" in a product called Cloudflare which protects the sites from simple / brute force attacks. Please do report any further issues.

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Jools

Some stats.

An update after some hours researching and making some changes.

In under a day there were the following number of automated processes attempting to register accounts:
744,073 */planetcatfish.com/https/access.log
87,031 */aquaticrepublic.com/https/access.log
37,867 */zebrapleco.com/https/access.log ...

The genus characteristic description mentions "trp4" and references "figure 5" which isn't in the paper online. Anyone know what "trp4" is?

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Jools

Hi

There isn't anything that should log you out more often in place. Logging in should take seconds, so not sure what's going on but it could be related to the 503 errors others have recently reported. Let me go check what the "stay logged in" parameters are.



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Jools

No, it's not you, it's us. Any error beginning with 5 is a server side error. In this case the server is getting too busy - I suspect from cyber abuse. I'll have a look at the logs and see if there is anything I can do to help it.

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Jools

Ack, sorry Eric, I will have a full look at it in the AM.

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Jools

I think we got this updated, right?

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Jools

It's because the fry sizes are bigger than 10mm. I've increased this to 20mm. There was an unrelated bug, but the fix was uploaded at the same time as the "new report" fix. It fixed where fry sizes were not being checked to be within a valid range. I think.

Can you give it another go?

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Darn.

The fix for one is the break for the other. I am looking into both now.

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Jools

Thankfully it's some warning messages that, with environment updates, are fussier than before. Fixed now. Nothing would have not worked, but good to clean up.

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Jools

Excellent work, I won't be looking at much of this until the weekend, but if you could email over that spreadsheet, I can use it to compare with what is happening.

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Jools

It's not a bug or something wrong, it's just reflective of the increased traffic. A lot of this is increased bot activity, much of it not very helpful...

I'd always go by the number logged in.

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Jools

Ich presents itself as flat, equally sized white dots never on the eyes, while Epistylis may appear as raised white dots, white powder, or fuzzy-looking patches that vary in size. Looks like your syno has the latter which is more common.

https://fishkeepandchill.com/ich-versus-epistylis/ is a ...

That, Eric, is why I wrote this out! Let me have a look at it - I think that could be the, or one, discrepancy from old to new regime and may help with Andy's query too. Let me have a look.

What do you guys think about +x points per family and +y point for each genus?

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Jools

Hi Andy,

I guess 1254 that's the right total then. The ~1600 must have been from when it was totalling wrong. Your (and all other) totals are now calculated from a single place. I had a look at your BLog records, and they seem about right but do let me know if one of them looks off.

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Jools