I think the final ID will be difficult. If your store has a lot of the twig cats, ask them to catch all and put in a plastic holding box so you can see the belly. Buy any you find with the medial scute, until you have enough to form a group. That's what I'd do.

Good luck,
Eric

Spectacular!

Cheers,
Eric

Pretty sure this is F. vittata, but if you bought a group check them all as shipments sometimes contain mixed spp. As Farlowella, like most Otocinclus, all sale for the same price under the same trade name Colombian exporters do not separate them by species. -Shane Shane, I trust your ID based on e...

Hi vsw211, I'm inclined towards Farlowella mitoupibo based on the following key results from your photos: 0 b 1 a definitely an incomplete middle row of abdominal plates. 2 a 3 b 4 a The only things I can't really tell from your photos is whether or not the eyes are below or above the head and wheth...

It worked. Thanks!

https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/about-ODNR/news/scioto-madtom-declared-extinct SCIOTO MADTOM DECLARED EXTINCT November 03, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently declared the Scioto madtom , a fish native to Ohio, extinct, according to the Ohio D...

Hi Longfincalico,

There's no picture attached.

Cheers,
Eric

Also, today I tried to upload files in different formats: Uploading a .JPG file (what I tried to do last night), I received this error, which appears in a small pop-up window near the top of the screen. ERROR HTTP error. Uploading a .PNG file that does not include a transparent background color desi...

Hi Jools,

I just tried to change my profile avatar image, using a file 125x125, 12kb size. It should have been accepted, but I got this error in red letters:

Temporary folder could not be found or is not writable.

Cheers,
Eric

Hi Jools, I attempted to add a photo to a forum post. The operation seemed to work at first - I selected the photo and the upload started. The green progress bar beside the file name looked like the file was almost finished, then the upload stopped and a pop up window appeared with the simple messag...

I spoke(posted) too soon about them breaking the pattern... Tonight, finally, I found the next spawn, albeit 12 days since the last spawn. Many of these eggs are bad, but there are plenty of good eggs scattered in the tank. Will collect the eggs in the morning to get a count of good eggs. 10 January...

Ron.H wrote: ↑02 Mar 2024, 21:21 corydoras schultzi black is a man made variant. they do not exist in the wild

Exactly.

Hi Jools, I just tried to upload a new photo to the CLOG and received this error: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@planetcatfish.com to inform them of the t...

Hi Magnum Man!

Welcome to Planetcatfish! When you have some time, please share about your catfish.

Cheers, Eric

Cessation of spawning aside, the fry from the six spawns are doing great! I suspect I have at least 400 babies growing out. I'm moving them to a 40 gallon tank soon. The Ziss breeder box is way too crowded.

Cheers, Eric

Sadly, the pattern has broken. I did a water change on 25 February. It was the first WC since before my 10 January spawn. I wondered if that would either trigger the next spawn or alter the water quality and stop the spawning. Maybe it mattered; maybe it didn't... but the result is no new spawn. It'...

I've put 10 C. sterbai in a tank that size. It can be done if you keep the water quality high. But it can also be a fragile balance and is at risk of water chemistry changes if you don't keep it stable.

Cheers,
Eric

Deprá, G. de C. & V. Slobodian. (2024). Redescription of ‘ Chasmocranus ’ brachynema (Heptapteridae: Heptapterini). Neotropical Ichthyology , 22 (1), e230091. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0091 https://www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/GrBKTqTnPpkFGTBPtjWctyf/?lang=en Abstract The endangered species...

Hello,

I'm not entirely clear on what you're asking. Are you asking if the two species can be told apart as juveniles? Are you asking if they'll grow to look the same as each other when they're adults?

Cheers,
Eric

Svitačová, K., Horký, P., Valchářová, T., & O. Slavík. (2024). Pigment matters: Behavior and lateralization of albino and pigmented fish (Bronze Corydoras ) in aquaculture. Applied Animal Behaviour Science . DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106205 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106205 https...

Looks like delphax to me.

Pics today of one Pseudopimelodus aff_bufonius in tank (the usual view I have of them) and of another individual, caught randomly. The latter is 13.6cm SL; this fish is "random" in that I did not attempt to catch the largest fish, although I think it might be the largest fish. If you compa...

Thanks so much I will definitely get some of those! Looking for a ziss style that is huge for attaching to some of my larger tanks. The tanklimate holes are to big. I've got over 200 Auchenipterichthys coracoideus in my Ziss BL-2. The babies are getting big so I need to move them to a bigger home. ...

Congratulations on your spawns! No, it's a standard Ziss BL-2. I chose it because it has a solid floor, which provides two benefits: 1) it prevents microworms from falling out of the box (a problem even with the fine mesh of the German breeder rings) and 2) when you drain the parents' tank for a wat...

Lol. Indeed, bamboo stinks as it soaks, but it's so good as a spawning cave or hiding place. The worst wood I ever tried was an old grape vine ( https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=299723#p299723). It developed a horribly smelly thick slime. I was hoping the L397 might eat the slime,...

It appears that all the eggs fungused.

Hopefully the adults spawn again soon, this time releasing fresh eggs.

Cheers, Eric

For a fleeting moment, I thought I had the Norgum River solved, but no. I found two publications about invertebrates, each collected along the Norgum river below a specific village. In one case, the Dengzi Village. In the other case, the Betchilling Village. Combining those two references with the C...

Condachou, C., Cuenot, Y., Pigeyre, L., Covain, R., Brosse, S. & J. Murienne. 2024. Monitoring the threatened Harttiella (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) with environmental DNA: A comparison between metabarcoding and targeted digital PCR. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems , 34 (...

Second clutch of eggs hatched and the previous group of fry are doing good. Not surprising, but somehow there are a few of the older fry loose in the tank too. Either dad let a few get away from him, or else a few managed to escape the German breeder ring.

Cheers, Eric

As I added this new species to the CLOG and endeavored to create a (hopefully) accurate river system to near its location, I noticed a minor discrepancy in the type locality as presented in the paper. I think it's probably insignificant since most GIS data have a margin of error, but I'm not totally...