Aye. You have succeeded where I failed. Well done!

And a VERY beautiful specimen at that.

I'm north of seattle, I have to look it up. I always just go to Bridge's pets, I'm near Everett and don't even know how to locate pet shops around that have decent stock....

I do not live near spokane at all, other side of the state.

Thanks! I have found a few locally, I'll keep these in mind if I decide to get more.

Oops, there's a "then" that should be a "than", I'll edit it now...

Yes, friend, modify and add as you please. Thank you for accepting my work, in any format.

Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water! I present to you a true beast, a thorny monster of the Amazon, Acanthicus Hystrix. pic-20041214213208.jpg Carachama mama, brazil. -Acanthicus Hystrix (pic from google searches) Size/age: Many Plecostomus species have been put forth as being...

Oh, wow. I'd love to do some now and then, that would be awesome.

Looking to buy, Live in Pacific northwest USA. Can pick-up within reason. Can pay a bit, not wealthy, so thinking in the 15 dollar range.

I notice the COTM is a sporadic thing, but wondered if we could call on our members to suggest catfish each month? Clearly, you'd have to search the COTM archive to verify that a species hasn't been featured yet. Would it be helpful, would it help us have one every month?

You have a 7-year-old A. Hystrix?

134 cm is 52 inches? That's bigger than I've ever heard of. Not saying it's wrong, just kinda wild.

Updates. Still refusing veggies. Feeding Omega 1 algae wafers, NLS algae wafers, and occasionally some Hikari algae wafers I bought before I remembered they are crap. Is still eating wood as well. Grows FAST. Is definitely territorial but the L191 easily hides from him. So far only comes out at nigh...

Wow, what an out-of-the way place! Thanks.

I've clicked every menu, every link. There's no way to add new species, is there? I bought an L190. But I can only edit existing catfish. This didn't used to be a problem. What am I doing wrong?

He was out today, hard to get a good shot.

My raphaels lost their side spines to abrasion on pots and stones. The fish didn't seem to mind but I'll never make that mistake again.

Are your breeding caves rough?

This here indicates that Hystrix is the big one, and Adonis isn't. But they've been wrong before. Acanthicus hystrix is distinguished from A. adonis (Fig. 5) by its dark brown to almost black color pattern, without spots or dots (vs. color pattern dark brown with white spots covering body and fins);...

Another keeper of murder pleco: My own Acanthicus hystrix shows the most premeditated aggression I have ever seen in a fish. Not being a good swimmer, he has little chance of catching anything in midwater, so lurks patiently until he spots a fish swimming between him and the glass. At this point he ...

More pictures though! Keep it alive if you can.

He has already grown. D:

Fair enough! I shall carry on, then. Good insight.

I'm fascinated there isn't more interest in this, one of the largest of the loricariidae.

He is also eating sinking pellets, and the driftwood. His poops are smaller/narrower than one would expect.

He's doing fine now!

He ate all the Malaysian Trumpet snails, ha ha ha. Yay.

We're on day 5 or so and he hasn't eaten. Any tricks? I am floating half a clove of garlic in there, I hear that's supposed to stimulate their appetite...

He has wood, a carrot, algae wafers and earthworms offered daily...

Thanks a million, guys!