MatsP, Thanks for the link to that article. It's a very good indication I think, but it made me also more confused, because it says that only MALES have forked tentacles, and tentacles on the whole face. But the biggest Ancistrus I have, has tentacles on the face, but they are not forked!

Another ...

When the head-tentacles grow when the fish become mature, I can exclude some of the 'larger' ANcistrus-species. I think the biggest one is about 8 centimeters.

I hope I haven't bought 3 males :( All 3 have head-tentacles, but only 1 has 'big ones'. The other 2 have tentacles that are much smaller ...

Thanks you both for replying.

When I bought the fish, the shopkeeper said something about Manaus, but I'm not sure if he meant the fish were catched in that area.

I took the Mergus WElsen atlas, but there are also many many many Ancistrus species described. I never realized there are so much of ...

Last week I bought 3 new catfish from store. They sold them as L183 - ANcistrus dolichopterus.

See pic's below:

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

When I take a look in the Cat Elog, then I see that the L183 has a white stripe on it's fins, the species I bought doesn't.

Now I think it is ...

Hi Tuti,
Very nice presentation. I have recently acquired a young pair of keyhole c*****ds and they are trying to defend their spawning site from four L204 pl*cos very much like the interaction captured in your featurette. You have inpsired me to try the short video function of my new digicam. I ...

I don't know how well you can read german language, but I can recommend 'Mergus wels atlas 1' & 'Mergus wels atlas 2'. Both parts describe a lot of species of the Loricaridae-family. Part 2 is totally L-number-minded.

Ver nice tank Marc, I really like tanks like this

Your pictures look a bit similar to my fish, except that my one is a little bit darker. It has the feathery edge on it's frontal fins, but they are very small.

I think we have the same species, but I'm interested in the difference of colouring between the ones in the cat-log (yellow-brownish) and ...

Hi everybody,

A few weeks ago I bought a nice pleco in store. They told me it's name was Pseudolithoxus dumus , also known as L244.

When I look in the cat-e-log I see the fish there has a very light color, much more lighter than the one that's swimming in my tank. My fish has a grey/blueish color ...

Hello,

In a few months I'll have a larger tank, to replace the 2 smaller ones.

Now I have Otocinclus vittatus in 1 tank, and Agamyxis in another one. Is it safe to put them together in one tank, or does the agamyxis think the Otocinclus are dinner?

I hope there is somebody who can answer the ...

Ok, I hope this picture is better :



I'm pretty sure that it's not a L199. It was sold to me being a L52 or a L168, but the eyes on these two species look different.

This nice catfish is swimming in my girlfriends tank, but we're not sure what's his name. She thinks it's a Peckoltia vittata L015, but We are not sure of it.

Can anybody help?



Thanks!

Hi all,

In this topic I want to show you some of my cats.

Agamyxis pectinifrons:
http://members.chello.nl/wtuit/plaatjes/14-08/agamyxis.jpg

Hemiloricaria sp. and Peckoltia sabaji:
http://members.chello.nl/wtuit/plaatjes/14-08/cats00.jpg

Another Hemiloricaria sp.:
http://members.chello.nl ...

Very good pictures from beautiful catfishes.

But on the other hand: I think you should create much more hiding places for the cats, and I think the tank is a little bit over-populated.

Ah thanks Mats, thats a clear answer. Somewhere it wondered me always a little bit that the L-numbers did not contain any species from the Loricariinae-family, while there are so many species in that family.

Is it the same story for Hypoptopomatinae? (Hope I write it correctly)

I think the best english term for 'Gattung' is 'Genus', just what Racoll said.

@HaakonH: But is that not just the same what they're doing with L- and LDA-numbers? Or did you mean that L- and LDA-numbers already have a familyname (Like Hypancistrus sp.), LG-numbers not?

I think it's a

Edit: Thanks Mats!

Hi,

In the Cat-elog I found a species with Common name 'LG6'. Also I read somewhere else about some otocinclus species, what has a common name 'LG5'.

Now I'm wondering: what does this LG-numbers mean? Is it something like the L- and LDA-numbers?

Thank you both for the answers. I'll ask the keeper of the fish if he will try to take some better pictures.

Hi all,

I'm asking this for somebody from a dutch forum. He has 3 cat's like this one: http://members.chello.nl/p.tilborgh/lnr/

He doesn't know what species it is, so that's why i'm asking here. I think it's a LDA 44, because the keeper says that his male looks like a species mentioned in the ...

Thank you for your resonse, Jorge. Now i'm also pretty sure about it that I've got at least 2 species of Hemiloricaria Parva.

Now i've got 1 more question: I want to do some pvc-pipes in the tank to provide them some spots to breed. What is the most optimal size for these pipes?

Thank you for your reply. I already found that website, but I'm still not sure about it; that's why I asked it here.

Norman,

thank you very much for your answer. Now I think that i've got 2 different species, because at least one of them doesn't have that 'black dot' you mentioned, and that one has a lighter color than the others. Is it possible that this is a sexing-difference?

It's a big help that I know to ...

Last saturday I bought 4 Hemiloricaria sp. In the shop they called them H. Fallax, but I'm not sure about it, so I hope anybody here can help me identify this nice fishes?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kevesnwl/hemiloricaria1.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kevesnwl/hemiloricaria9.jpg

For more pictures, see ...

Today I bought 4 Hemiloricaria Fallax (according to the paper on the shop's tank). First the plan was, that I buy the species I talked in this topic before; but then I saw the Fallax at a shop that is closer to my hometown. And I think the h. fallax is more beautiful than the unknow species from the ...

Norman,

thank you for your reply. I checked the other Hemiloricaria species in the Cat-elog and I don't think that the species that I have seen exists on the website.

I think I go get 2 pair of them next saturday. I'll try to make a picture of them and post it here; so that anybody can look on it ...

No, they're not the ones I saw. The fish in the shop seemed of the Hemiloricaria species. I think the Hemiloricaria Fallax comes close to it, but the species I saw had a lighter skincolor and a little different pattern.

Yesterday I saw this beautiful fish in the local fish store. I wanted to search for some information about it; but that is really difficult i think. Can anybody tell me more about this fish? It isn't in the cat-e-log i think

Is it such a rare species or did the shop use a wrong name?

Very nice fish! Nice photo's!

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