As I said before, well done Jac. You have magic tanks. \:d/ give lot's of oxygen, adding extra air stones would be a good idea with this species More and more I prefer to add extra airstones to tanks. Cheers, Eric I use extra air stones in almost all my single tanks. But not in my breeding system. ...

What a nice update! I recently put a P. nudiventris in my tank. Would you have some advices for me? Could you tell us more about your experience with this species? Wish you luck! Congratulations. They are an awesome species. Not aggressive or territorial in my experience. They are quite shy, in my ...

This needs an update b-) It's been a year of trail and error but finally I cracked the code and I have some fry in my fish house \:d/ Meet the worlds first documented Parancistrus nudiventris fry: The male trapping F8YHBfg18ZA Some of the eggs got kicked out of the cave 3x4wgGrs5co But I managed to ...

The fry are doing very well. No special care needed. Still feeding on Repashy herbivore formulas daily.

Some of the juveniles are turning colors. Not sure why but it is lasting, they have been like this for a month now.



The latest batch

What about the conditions you're keeping them in? Most times when fish don't eat it's because something else is not quite right. They need warm water, high oxygen levels, some current, clean water (lot's of fresh waterchanges) and lot's of hiding places. Make sure they are free of parasites too. My ...

What you are describing is exactly how it went here with my P. albivermis. Everything from multiple trapping without success, to swapping males and it took mine more then a year, infact two, before they dropped eggs. Keep going, they will pop

Day 2.

Thanks Eric!

100% Awesome Nick

Day 4, a day of premature hatching but there also were some good eggs still. http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/jacben/Aquarium%20IV/38230717_1635920579851339_7694499761222582272_o_zpsea5tz00z.jpg Day 1 for the fry. http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/jacben/Aquarium%20IV/38430049_1637518119691...

Day 3.

Thank you both :d Here’s a picture from yesterday evening, day 1: http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/jacben/Aquarium%20IV/D62B5071-0FA8-4A1D-988D-EF77AA8424E8_zps0fta9fuj.jpg And from today, day 2: http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/jacben/Aquarium%20IV/EC26636C-B5D3-42CE-8F98-6B46B21B5858_zps...

So, it finally happened



Two days later I found they had spawned but it was a bit of a mess...



I took the eggs in the early morning and then rushed off to work. Later that day I cleaned up the egg mass and found there were still some good and fertile eggs.

Super cool Nick

CatWhat wrote: ↑22 Jun 2018, 11:38 What are you feeding the parents?

I only feed Repashy, Soilent Green and Super Green mixed with a little bit of Morning Wood. And Bottom Scratcher and Grub Pie.
I raise the fry on the green formulas.

Hi everybody! Thought it would be nice to share my breeding success of Parancistrus aurantiacus with you. I bought my first two fish in March 2017. Sadly about 6 months later I lost one of them.. And so my search for more specimens continued and I found a nice group of 4 about the same size as my si...

Awesome work Jools!
Pictures 5,6,7 and 8 are also L501. True Hypancistrus inspector doesn't show so much odonthodes, even when they are fully mature breeding males.

They are not "marbled"

As I'm close to finally breeding my F1 Hypancistrus inspector now and I can finally see the morphological differences between male and female, I'll get them out into the photo tank and take shots for gender comparison ;)

Hi Jac. Thanks for this. I'm surprised to learn that so many of the other pics would also L501 because they look much more spotted than your L501 in the CSG article. Cheers, Eric The diversity of Hypancistrus sp. L501 is huge. Not one spotted fish is identical to the other. That's what made it diff...

Thanks Jools, awesome!! I sublied some pictures for the correct data on Hypancistrus inspector. As your at the CSG convention right now, go and have a chat about these with Steven Grant :d He'll be happy to fill your in on the information about Hypancistrus inspector vs L501/L102 \:d/ http://www.pla...

To give you some pictures for the H. inspector log: 6-8 months old: http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/jacben/Aquarium%20III/L102%20special_zps6oxk0cvg.jpg http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/jacben/Aquarium%20III/L102%20special-1_zps70gqesp6.jpg One year old: http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/...

Hi Eric, I can also help you with that and it's quite easy. There is no picture of a true Hypancistrus inspector on the cat-e-log.
The only two pictures that could be (but doesn't show the full fish) are the Caudal fin picture by Yann, and the Headshape picture, also by Yann. The rest are all L501.

You are certainly on the right track! My P. albivermis trap so many times without eggs I lost count. So for me perfectly common behavior. Keep at it, don't change anything! You're doing great!!!

To me these look like . I read somewhere that Hypancistrus sp. L201, Hypancistrus contradens and Hypancistrus sp. L471 all belong to the same complex. L471 supposed to stay smaller but that is proven not to be always accurate.

Hi PC crew! Is it possible to update these two cat-e-log pages please? Hypancistrus inspector is different from Hypancistrus sp. "L102" and there is possibly even a third species involved which is currently being numbered by Rainer Stawikowski from Datz. In the latest CSG Journal there was...

Nice and interesting. Could I get a copy of the paper please?

About the topic fish, I had a nice little educating discusion about these fish with Daniel. He told me Rio Maranon and Rio Ucayali are the two main rivers in Peru. It is more likely this fish is from Rio Ucayali and a close match to Ancistrus "Rio Ucayali". But it seems to be very difficul...

One day I will make this trip! It sounds great

Hi Jools, yes it is fixed It has been fine for a while now, thanks