I've personally never ran into issues keeping plecos in blackwater, and honestly prefer it because it gives me an excuse to not spend a bunch of money on plants and lighting; plus, the plecos- especially fry- seem to love munching on old botanicals. I've actually had the best success breeding certai...

My L397 breed year round, but they are definitely seasonal in terms of the intensity of breeding. I get more spawns in mid to late summer than I do from October - March. Your water parameters sound wonderful! What's your pH? Cheers, Eric Thanks! My pH hovers somewhere around ~6.3, last time I check...

I had several plecos, apistos, and a pair of bettas routinely spawning in a tank where I conducted very small water changes on a sporadic basis; the nitrates were consistently somewhat high, and so was the TDS, but I had few, if any, issues with getting the inhabitants to spawn. I completely redid t...

Others will be able to add better info, but L052 is noticeably 'flatter' and not as full-bodied; the eyes are larger (in comparison to the head) and located closer to the top of the skull, fin shapes and placement are slightly different, and as you noted the pattern is much more "muted", e...

That almost looks like L052... any chance there was a mix-up?

Hi, I've got a group of wabenmuster, all from the same breeder, maybe from the same spawn (they were about the same size when purchased, but may have been from separate spawns close together). Two of my males are huge, well over 10 cm SL. But two of my males are small like yours, about 6 cm SL. I'v...

Snagged a nice pair of Wabens at my LFS. Great deal for healthy fish of an obvious sex. Only thing is, they're super tiny. Tiny, as in tiny . And they look fully sexually mature, too; not just borderline sexable, which is what I'm used to for Ancistrus at their size. I personally have never seen wab...

Second specimen looks female; first might be male, judging by what looks like an everted genital papilla, but the image is unfortunately not clear enough to see for certain whether the modified copulatory ray (or fin) is present. I could've sworn I saw a clear picture of a smaller male Tocantinsia w...

C brevirostris 7 total. 3F 4M, I think. 2F for sure. 55g tank varying depth but never full Ph ~7.4 Nitrate ~10 Temp 78F Water changes with cold rain water (Ph6, ~1-3Kh, ~20Gh, 0 nitrates). Substrate is play sand with some aragonite Feeding frozen blood worms, Kens catfish and pleco stick and Kens g...

Update: He's dead. Not literally, yet, but sure will be in two hours. Was much more worse off than I thought. Rather disappointed. Think I still have a potential pair, aside from him, though... Perhaps if they do alright I might at least someday get some F1s.

Just received a rather nice box of fish; amongst them was an L213 male (think the fish might actually be L359, as were ~70%+ of all the "L213" imports last year). Gonna go out on a limb here and say the poor fellow's toast and doesn't stand a chance of survival. I've never had a WC pleco c...

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Found this on the forum; might be helpful. Good luck with your new fish!

The Cat e-Log has some excellent pictures of their natural habitat where they may be collected. Always worth looking through the e-Log pages to see if they have information you need; sometimes saves the trouble of having to making a post

The only L397 shown looks female to me. My inclinations on the Hemiancistrus are all female based on pectoral odontodes alone. But maybe the smaller individuals are immature. Which L476 is supposed to be the male? Cheers, Eric Thanks! The smallest L476 seems to have a more 'box-like' head shape, at...

2nd L397:

1st L397:

More pics of the little guy:

Two more pics of the 16cm L476: Smallest L476; ~13cm:

Mid-sized L476; ~16cm:

Got 3 L476 from Sabu at Saburai Aquatics, and two 397s as well. Would like confirmation on sex; Sabu tried to sex a 1m2f trio for me, based on body/head shape and odontodes, but upon receival I thought the L476s were all males. I pulled the three for better pics during a large water change yesterday...

Looks like to me. Seen a surprising amount of these recently in the US.

The.Dark.One wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 15:32 I'm having same issue. Tried Ctrl F5 and Shift F5 on laptop but still not showing

Had the same issue; I cleared my browser cache and did a hard reload, which seemed to fix it.

It seems there is a specific thing you're typing into a field - maybe the "group size" field. Can you recall / tell me what that was you were trying to do? Cheers, Jools I unfortunately can't remember what I was trying to do- it may have been group size, but it also could've been the husb...

Insufficient conditioning, odd water temperatures, premature spawning, and stress has all led to irregularities in pleco eggs IME. The eggs in your picture were not fully developed inside the female, for one reason or another; and I doubt any of them would be viable even if fertilised. They don't lo...

Tried to edit some info on my CW102 entry earlier, and got this error message. Doesn't seem to be an issue with other species, though I didn't check many. Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: int + string in /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/common/includes/my_fish_validate.php:3...

I had three people say they agree with formosa; I'm gonna go with that for now. At least one feeds on cucumber seeds late at night, but I've never seen any of them eating during the day. Funny little blighters, but enjoyable ones nevertheless.

Forgot to mention, I'm 90% sure they're Rineloricaria, and my best anecdotal guess would be formosa, though having little experience ID'ing I'm probably wrong.

Feels like all I post are these sorts of questions. Anyhow, got another whiptail species I'd like some assistance in ID'ing. Screenshot 2023-10-22 10.14.06 PM.png Screenshot 2023-10-22 10.14.33 PM.png Screenshot 2023-10-22 10.14.53 PM.png Screenshot 2023-10-22 10.15.08 PM.png None of them are very g...

Looks like a well-fed male to me, based on head shape and odontodes. Seems more like contradens than a L201 to me, but I've never been the best at ID'ing Hypans. A very nice fish regardless.

Without a reply, I checked this out and it seems to work fine. Screenshot attached. However, this will be of limited use as it's my screen not yours. :-) If there's still an issue, post a screenshot and I will reopen/look into it. Cheers, Jools Issue seemed to be much more prevalent in the past mon...