This is what we export as L234 M. parananus "Dragon High Fin". 20 cm TL, nice round spots. L234_M_cf_parananus_20cm.jpg 35 cm TL, with nice round spots but little darker in colour. L234_M_cf_parananus_35cm.jpg The pictures at Amazon-exotic and the M. cf. barrae above show the same species ...

V30 = L340
Hypancistrus species = Lower Xingu/Belo Monte
V27 = L201
V24 = H. contradens
V10 = L75 Peckoltia sabaji Rio Xingu

Janne

Janne

Janne, has any one else in Sweden been breeding this species?

What I'm aware of your are the first to breed them in Sweden and problebly one of very few in Europe.

Janne

Congrats Cristoffer... finally and not surpricing, when they breed they do it when you last expect it

Maybe my old big L114's except for the small female??

Janne

Sorry to hijack the thread but I have a question :) The distance from Belém area where the O. hoppei are exported from (origin Rio Tocantins drainage) to Rôndonia is very large with states like Mato Grosso/Amazonia between, the picture above of O. hoppei state that B is from Rôndonia and A the lecto...

Sandor,

I ment in the trade... not just Ingos's little nice find ;)
And when we start... how knows if we will find only one new... hehe

Janne

L270 have a higher body profile comparing the same lenght with L340, L340 have a more stubbier head with slightly larger eyes then L270. L270, and I'm not sure all pics in the Cat-eLog really are L270 but this is a typical L270 with smaller eyes and higher body profile compared with L340. http://www...

L114 and L600 are different locations and they look different... if they are the same species or not for the science I have not a clue but for me they are 2 different species even if they only have 1 name, let see if we can make it more complicated this autum introducing another new P. cf. sp. aff. ...

This is the typical colouration for Panaque sp "Tocantins" and of course they occur in Araguaia too, unfortunatly there are not so good pictures in the Cat-eLog. http://www.planetcatfish.com/images/full/loricariidae/panaque/cf_armbrusteri%60tocantins%60/1.jpg In the past and still it's qui...

Larry,
Head and eye profile exclude Peckoltia, these are Hypancistrus species and the best match is L340, they are not L270 because the head-body profile is wrong for that species.

Janne

They are L114 P. cf. leopardus, L600 and LDA07 is the same species P. leopardus and lack spots on their head and also they have a more "green" base colour.

Janne

The first one and the second one which actually are from Teles Pires and not Araguaia which is wrong in the Cat-eLog.

Janne

[Mod edit: alter to current names --Mats]

Janne

Do you have the locality and name of the river?

Janne

That is Panaque maccus in your first pic, much cheaper then L129, in your other pic's it is L129.

Janne

Amanda,

To whom did you put the question... to me or to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?

Janne

Rio Iriri is in the original plan with a very huge dam.

I think Baryancistrus species is less sensitive than many other species, I know at leats 10 species endemic to the big bend.

But the fight is not over yet, the resistant within Brazil is huge.

Janne

They are only 4-5 cm SL, still babies and impossible to sex and even to tell if they are L201 or H. contradens.

Janne

I don't think this is L63, i think this is a species without any L-number and they have recently been smuggled out from Colombia, Peru and probably Brazil. I have never seen it before and I really doubt that the origin would be Rio tocantins.

Janne

It's a baby maybe 5-6 cm and at that size they are very similar, I guess L240 or L241 but it could be any of all L. galaxia types.

Janne

The government dismisses claims that the project will have a negative impact on the environment or the local community. Belo Monte is the most studied hydroelectric plant in the world," Mines and Energy Minister Marcio Zimmermann said. Such a bunt of liers, it's totally the opposite. So, now i...

They can't build the dam without private investors and companies, they just don't have the competence... that was the most stupid statement I have ever heard in my whole life... and I have heard a lot.

Mike,
You may be right.

Janne

And all it's about is the government's prestige.

Janne

I have a list of species from a study made by the university here, I think I have sent that to you Mike for a year or so back. The list contains of ~460-480 species with an estimation of at least that 600 species occur in Rio Xingu with tributaries and my own estimation is little higher than that......

They are different locations, the same with several other L-numbers for Peckoltia origin Rio Tapajos... if Rio Xingu has the complex of Hypancistrus Rio Tapajos have the same for Peckoltia.

Janne

Janne

Why did you remove the eggs?

Janne

Yeh, it means 100.000 job in a place without any infrastructure at all, when they reach break even it's time to scrap the whole power plant. President Lula da Silva will not live that day... he will not even be the president when the dam is finished... but he can probably be a rich man when he retir...

If the economy come in the first place, they should not allowe the Belo Monte project like the project is constituted, every one knows they have to build 4-5 water reservoir's (holding dams) upstreams in Rio Xingu to make the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant able to produce the calculated amount of en...