Yep silurus is right again with noodling as the true redneck fishing method :lol: . Now that I know it's called noodling, I did a search for catfish + noodling and got a dozen webpages. Amazing. :shock: One of the webpages was actually the Urban Myths page, which had a page about that noodling WASN...

Well, I found one of the sites. You tell me, is this real?

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/general/col ... 36494.html

Some while ago I read about a sport allegedly practiced in parts of southern USA. It went something like this: wade in murky water, and look for a hollow log or similar. When you find one, thrust your hand in there. If there is a big catfish in there, it'll chomp down on your fist, and you can pull ...

Mike, Needless to say we get asked about Otocinclus ID quite a lot but rarely have an opportunity such as this to get such detailed images to look at. If you are able to and if you have the time I would certainly like to add some of your images to the site. Maybe even a few close-ups showing the ch...

I have narrowed it down to either O. mariae or O. vittatus . You need to count the number of non canal-bearing lateral plates that separate the anterior and posterior fields of canal-bearing plates (5 or less=mariae; 6 or more=vittatus), as well as the number of canal-bearing plates in the posterio...

Mike, The point is cost. This is oversimplified, but the principle is decreasing bandwidth consumption is desirable because the more bandwidth we use the more it costs to host the site. The introduction of the page transitions and latterly thumbnail pages greatly reduced bandwidth use upon introduc...

Personally I quite like them but they are there precisely to slow down navigation (i.e. reduce bandwidth usage) from people with faster connections clicking all over the place and not actually absorbing any information presented on the pages. I don't understand - what's the point? They're there to ...

I've now got a couple of fair profile shots of one of the otos. The otos are deathly afraid of the camera and go ballistic when it comes close, and as getting a good shot basically means getting camera and flash within 2 cm of the oto I'm probably not going to get better shots than these without res...

Anyway, I'll try to get some usable pics of the underside and of the dorsal armor plates tomorrow I've taken some of those images now... I've only got images of the underside of the head yet, as the fish are scared of the camera, but I'm working on getting a closeup of the side of the head too. The...

By coincidence I just asked a similar question to the in this thread in the loricariid forum, and perhaps you guys would like to have a look: http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=2520 The fish which died were generally smallish fish, mainly minnows, platies and celebes rainbows. The water ...

Please, would it be possible to remove, or put an option in to turn off, the page transitions? They slow down navigation and are quite annoying...

Silurus: Thanks, I'll have a look round, there is a decent chance we have that key already, now that I know where to look. I also have access to an x-ray machine so osteological characters are at least borderline possible for me. SG_Eurystomus: Thanks! However, that oto is a fairly large target comp...

A while back I ran into something I thought I'd ask about: I think my otos killed quite a few of my fish. I bought two Otocinclus (vittatus? looked like it, but who knows) for my 160 L tank, and was really happy with them - they did their job without being annoyingly boisterous and hyperactive like ...

There are about 13 species of Otocinclus with a color pattern like that. Kind of difficult to identify species within this group. What characters are used to identify the species? If they're external I can probably take a photo of them. If they're internal I can check them if one of the fish should...

http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/Otocinclus_affinis_DSCN5429.jpg As you can tell from the image name, my best guess is Otocinclus affinis? The fish is about 3 cm (1.2") Another aquarist stated that affinis is the only Otocinclus with unbroken dark sideband, like the specimen on the image has, so t...