For fish it is not worth the cost, as most vets don't know anything about fish.

Dogs are not catfish, I won't go into that subject

A picture of the cuction cap will help a lot. After all, if it is big, the fish is a herbivore, if it is small, a carnivore.

So both for identifying and husbandry this is something you will want to know

One one hand interesting, but perhaps a bit hard to put into practise.

Or would it be a good idea to raise catfishfry in a multi colored tank, where the fry can choose the best colored spot?

Here we fully agree. I had X montezumae combined with a cichlid, - now - Nosferatu pame, which had fry, and I intended to raise some. So I took a net and pulled it through the cloud of fry. But much to my surprize, I did not catch any cichlid, only Xipho´s. I did not even know they had fry, so I was...

I like wrong jokes.

Still, I happen to be going to a meeting of Poecilia today, the Dutch Lifebearers Association. I wonder whether to tell this joke or not

Looking at the above answer, you might want to add some small caves, the big fishes cannot enter - but the small ones can.

It does look like the real thing indeed

Whish I could help you

If your brislenose refers to Ancistrus - it is not. Ancistrus are rather flat, and this fish is not flat. Further the common Ancisturs has white points in the tail fin which are missing in this one.

Lastly it looks like it is already larger then 7.5 cm, or 3 inches (an inch is 2.54 cm, not 2.4)

Would the tools not fail, keeping fish would be a lot easier indeed.

That´s precisely why I try to use as little tools as possible.

This could be a good example of evolution without a fysical barrier - that is, a species found, along with the known ecological niche, a new, free one and took advantage of this new opportunity, resulting in part of the old species developing into a new one.

Call it a speciesflock of 2, if you want.

Wize words.

Nobody pointed them out to me, so I had to find out the hard way. And it was hard, I lost some 30 Netroplus nematopus in 1 bottle once (I had starved them a bit, and there was some food inside) after 4 hours

These don't tell much. Too bad. Now feeding or water change, or a biological clock could explain matters, but there could also be another explanation. An event, and that can still be barometric pressure, triggers spawning, but depending on the species, actual spawning will take some more time. For i...

Storms can have fast changes in air pressure - changes fish are able to detect, although I wonder how. After all, the difference between half a ppi, that is some 50 cm water pressure, is something quite a few fish meet without consequence a day just going for a breath. But some do detect such a chan...

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I think we can do the rest that way

And apparently you don't live closeby

They could join my 2 Platydoras of 27 and 2 Pt gibbiceps of 16 in the 4 meter tank.

As far as I know, a TDS meater measures conductivity of the water, and organic matter - large molecules with little or no charge, do not contribute much to the conductivity. What I think happend was, you went from TDS 400 to 40 after the waterchange, but then stuff went dissolving again. I think you...

As I never kept them, I can't answer you. But are you certain you cannot place them anywhere?

You might try a hobbyforum, I am moderator on www.hetncf.nl. This is mainly cichlid oriented.

If you happen to live closeby, you also may bring them along.

multigene analysis The easiest way of producing a tree of relatedness is study one tree. However, coincidence, or luck, can have a rather large influence. If one samples more than one gene, the cances of luck having an influence will decrease with the number of genes analyzed. I think CharlieM9 has ...

Point is, in nature the waters are Always much, much bigger than our tanks. I got a 4 meter / 13 feet tank, which is quite large, but a little creek is still much, much bigger. pH changes further travel very fast trough wate,r much faster than anything, apart from sound and light. That is, the large...

What is it you want to reach? I think a softening of the water. As stated above, this lowers the buffering capacity and will thus enable a lower pH. Apparently, now your water is too hard, and therefore you would want to change water with pure RO water. However, do take time to airate it. After a wh...