to TwoTankAmin Whilst I certainly understand and on 1 level agree with your comments regarding limited funds and their best use, my initial gut reaction is knowledge is power... any knowledge or information gained is better than not having it, and maybe with the looming demise of this river system w...

No questions here, all well explained as far as I can see. Have made a donation and shared on a couple of fish keeping groups Im active in on Facebook. Xingu fishes are an interest of mine too, so I'm keen to see any new research images.

mine are definately happier in a highly oxygenated swift current type setting. they seem to do ok on courgette and my general shrimp / spirulina / peas / agar mix

Seems to all be working fine now. Thanks for working on it

So an English translation has been done but they won't go ahead and publish ?
Anyone know who owns the translation ? I presume it was commiosoned by Mergus ?

Yes I allready have it.
Have been able to translate small bits of text using googles langaugae translation.

Recieved this reply from an email to mergus requesting a publication date... Sorry, the Catfish Atlas 2 will not be published. The author has done nearly the same book with a few other publishers, so we see no chance to compete. best regards Mergus Bummer :( looks like I'm gonna have to learn to rea...

Found this on youtube, anyone able to translate the description ?

awesome news, is there anywhere i can go to check when it gets published ? or go to pre order ?
and does anyone want my german version for a swap when the english one comes out ?

Wells Catfish Atlas II

Anyone know if this has been translated to English yet ?

I bought the german edition with a view to getting round to learning german, hasnt happend lol...

also getting a blank square for
im on IE8.0 with Windows 7

getting red X instead of images for...

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Hi Racoll. Have you tried any of the Ellesmere tributaries ? lots of smelt, whitebait, small flounder, eels, shrimp (heaps of mysis shrimp after dark)and bullies. I made a trip to the irwell saturday (aborted duck hunting trip) and collected 4 different plants, lots of nitella, a myriophyllum, and 2...

I use agar as a base for my general 'pleco mix' and they love it. My mix is... A bag (1kg) of frozen peas. A couple of handfulls of shrimps (the little pink coctail ones) A few prawns with shells still on A few unmarinated mussles 3 or 4 corgettes a couple of pieces of garlic all of the above is ble...

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not sure if it applies but I found this... I made a small hack to the .xml template: I changed line <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> to {FEED_ENCODING} and defined variable FEED_ENCODING in rss.php file: 'FEED_ENCODING' => '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8...

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doh!! knew it would be staring me in the face.

When i try to subscribe to forums I get an IE error

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed

This feed contains code errors.

subscribed to article and image updates ok.

Windows 7 IE 8.0

Maybe im just being dense but i cant find the RSS feed icon, where is it hiding ?

I don't peel sweet potato - just cut it into slices, spoon/fork through it and drop in the tank. (and I'm pretty sure Kumara is the NZ/Pacific name for Sweet Potato from having looked it up before - if my memory isn't falling to bits, it's actually the Maori name for the "vegetable"). -- ...

Me being rather lazy in the kitchen I tend to peel 'Kumara (red sweet potatoe)' by just chopping the edges off leaving the skin and aprrox 15mm of potatoe which I spear with a teaspoon and drop into my driftwood tank where L128 and Panaque Nigrolineatus seem to enjoy the potatoe part but leave the s...

I learnt a hard lesson about relying on a single heater when an eheim stopped and i lost 3 of my 4 green spot puffers in that tank :( Strangely the best run i have had is with a budget brand available in Australaisa called Aqua One. Have had 2 running in each of my rack sumps some as long as 4 years...

There is one on New Zealand auction site Trademe from a reputable ornamental fish importer which was listed at NZ$1 reserve, as of this post bidding has risen to NZD$605 (approx USD$425) not a bad deal as they are retailing them for NZD$890 (approx USD$623). They are increbibly rare here, one sold a...

Anyone have a link to the 'good' IBAMA List of plecs allowed to be exported from Brasil that is uptodate and dosnt produce a 404 error.

thanks in advance

Given the difficulty of importing anything into New Zealand (quarantine, customs etc etc) I doubt I'd be able to actually collect anything, was more thinking along the lines of just seeing the place. Is there any / much likely hood of actually seeing any plecs in native habitat, or zoo, or exporters...

World Cup 2014 Seems an ideal opportunity to visit the home of loricaridae and the home of South American football. Which city of the list hosting games would be best for someone keen on plecs ? Manaus ? How do costs run in Brasil? Whats a 2 - 3 week stay likely to cost ? I presume there are organus...

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Thanks guys, ill leave them in there and monitor what happens

Anyone have an experiance with Ramshorn snails and pleco eggs, they safe or egg eaters ?