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- 20 Nov 2017, 14:03
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7942
Re: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
Hi, @Walter The information I have read indicated that the onset of the rainy season for the central Brazil region usually starts between Sept and Nov. So I thought perhaps this was the time the water levels in the Big Bend should be rising. Since the official posture is that water levels will be ma...
- 16 Nov 2017, 20:51
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7942
Re: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
It should now be the rainy season for the Xingu. I would ask those members who are there now or who travel there with any regularity to describe how the Big Bend looks these days? How are the water levels? How is the water quality? No, now is end of dry season, start of rainy season, waters at lowe...
- 16 Nov 2017, 09:55
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7942
Re: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
Hi, There are efforts in Brazil to breed Zebras and start a "ornamental fish breeding industry", to protect Zebras in the wild and give work to fishermen (yes, they wanted the fishermen to "change job"), but wo far without success. Hard for Brazilians to do this, because they do ...
- 15 Nov 2017, 23:24
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7942
Re: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
@panaque ..... I have exhausted the polite conversations as the importer insists that they were WC :( I have heard from a couple of pleco buddies in Europe that L46 and a few other rare plecos are bred in large tanks close to the river using river water. These plecos are subsequently sold by import...
- 15 Nov 2017, 09:50
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7942
Re: Wild Caught Zebra Plecos
Hi, I do not think that there is actually any legal way to export Zebras from Brazil for ornamental trade. Have been in Altamira and with university people and fishermen there four times in the last few years, ... nearly all fishermen are catching Zebras, but illegally. Those are transported to Bele...
- 21 Oct 2006, 00:15
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Which Auchenipterids are being kept by PC members?
- Replies: 2405
- Views: 517264
Hi Marc, Walter, I saw pictures of T. anduzei and it's definitely NOT your fish. Check this link http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/res_area/loricariid/Venezuela2004-05/1index1.html checked the link ;) I got a new video DVD some days ago - from German Andreas Stelzig, Michael Böttner et al...
- 06 Oct 2006, 17:42
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Which Auchenipterids are being kept by PC members?
- Replies: 2405
- Views: 517264
Hi Marc, no - no idea. I think, they are adult, I got them adult, they have been imported adult... This species shows a hudge distribution, maybe there are different types of coloration in specimen of different origin... (and maybe there is more than one or two species of this genus - but not descri...
- 06 Oct 2006, 10:29
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Which Auchenipterids are being kept by PC members?
- Replies: 2405
- Views: 517264
Hi Marc, That cf. part sounds interesting. Because if it is Trachelyopterichthys but not taeniatus, I think, that its T . taeniatus , but I´m not 100 % sure - otherwise, if I thought, that its a different species, I would have written T. spec. aff. taeniatus. But take a look, the pattern of the lat...
- 05 Oct 2006, 14:06
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Which Auchenipterids are being kept by PC members?
- Replies: 2405
- Views: 517264
- 17 Jun 2006, 08:10
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Anybody else hate football?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8201
- 03 Mar 2006, 19:44
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
- 03 Mar 2006, 01:43
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
Here basic data: T: 27° C Water hardness: < 4° dGH (German unit - that´s about 5° e English hardness, ~ 150 µS/cm conductifity) 7,5 pH O 2 supply CO 2 fertilisation UVC No current Feeding: fruit, vegetables, artifical food (flakes, pills), chironomus larvae Parents (2 m, 1 f) live in this tank ...
- 03 Mar 2006, 00:35
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
- 01 Mar 2006, 16:35
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
- 28 Feb 2006, 15:13
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
Yes and no, L200 was bred in Scandanavia months before those that you cite above knew. There are other examples that we know of also in the Corydoras world too - not everything goes though Germany although they do tend to lead the way. OK - but the L 128 should have been bred in Germany, because th...
- 28 Feb 2006, 15:05
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
- 28 Feb 2006, 09:09
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
Hi, I can´t imagine, that your fish are really captive bred. Cause - somebody of the big German fish im/exporters (Ingo Seidel/Aquaglobal, André Werner/Transfish, Frank Schäfer/Aquarium Glaser, Jens Gottwald/Aquatarium, etc.) probably would have known about a successful breeding, but nobody told ...
- 27 Feb 2006, 19:09
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11883
Successful breeding of L 128 in Berlin-Zoo
Hi, seemingly another "not yet in captivity spawned" species (?) has been bred: http://www.plecos.de/128_2_fragezeichen.jpg http://www.plecos.de/128_3_fragezeichen.jpg Location: 5.500 liter "Rio Negro" tank in the Berlin-Zoo. The pics are of poor quality - taken with a handy-cam ...
- 31 Jan 2006, 22:54
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: New hypancistrus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14707
Hi, Walter I was suggesting the importer should know what the fish they sell are because opperating out of Europe or the US etc they have access to many books and the internet to confirm fish species. they cannot have more books or information, than we have. And even André (Werner) is not always su...
- 30 Jan 2006, 23:59
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: New hypancistrus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14707
Hi, I am sure those that import them know what they have no. How should they know, if they depend on the information of the exporter, and the exporter depends on information of dealers, fishermen, ... Importers mostly order from a stock of an exporter, and only few German importers (others I don´t ...
- 30 Jan 2006, 22:04
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: New hypancistrus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14707
- 30 Jan 2006, 08:00
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: New hypancistrus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14707
- 29 Jan 2006, 18:45
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: New hypancistrus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14707
Hi, I would go with my original ID and say it is L287. It matches them most closely, an importer is selling fish identified as L287, and so far there is no solid evidence that L287 don't exist. You got a darn good deal there Oscar300. :razz: jeri once again: the fish sold as L 287 got new L-Numbers,...
- 26 Jan 2006, 00:50
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: New catfis book
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1222
- 25 Jan 2006, 19:01
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: New hypancistrus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14707
- 25 Jan 2006, 16:41
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: New hypancistrus
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14707
- 11 Jan 2006, 12:40
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: Neotropical Ichthyology 3(4): Neotropical catfishes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15045
- 11 Jan 2006, 03:10
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: Neotropical Ichthyology 3(4): Neotropical catfishes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15045
- 31 Dec 2005, 00:41
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: Neotropical Ichthyology 3(4): Neotropical catfishes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15045
- 04 Dec 2005, 01:47
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: violence rating
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1733