Starsky,

Mine can't be leucomelas as the eye band does not extend below the orbit. I have settled on Delphax for my friends. Good luck finding a quality pic to identify yours.

Shane,

I wonder if using peat moss to bring the Ph down naturally would work in this instance? The water in the picture looks rather clear/blue and leads me to wonder how the Ph is so low? One normally associates low Ph with blackwater so I am interested in the mechanism that leads to low Ph in ...

Silurus

Thank you for the doc. I was pleased to find thta the river is practically blackwater Ph of 5.5 and the color of coffee

Thanks

I have heard bad things about belt driven pumps and blowers are said to be super loud I did find a linear diaphram pump but never heard of them before.

I am wondering if there is any one airpump on the market that will rum eight sponge filters for ten gallon tanks. I am starting a fish room and the first rack will house eight ten gallons. I don't have may outlets in the room so I don't want to end up with a power squid behind the rack for the eight ...

Did some web searching and found no information on the Inirida river system habitat! Anyone have descriptions/pictures and water quality(White/Black water)of this river in South America?
Interested in water paramaters as well as substrate and plant life.
Is the plant life terrestrial or submereged ...

Thanks for the replies. I have settled on Delphax.

I posted some pics in What is my catfish with the same subject line.

Anyone with a sharper eye than I? It could be either in the subject line to me going by the pics in the CAT-elog.
<img src="http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=150"/>

<img src="http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=151"/>

<img src=http://www.planetcatfish.com ...

I have acquirred six of the little critters. They could pass for either of the fish in the subject line as compared to the pics in the cat-elog, except they do not have any spotting in the dorsal fin.
They don't come close to anything else in the cat-elog and am wondering if anyone else has come ...