Thanks for the kind word Mats.

I am always happy to try to pass along some info, especially as it relates to the natural diet of catfishes based on my ongoing project on this topic.

Lee

Hi all and corysrus.

Sorry to have mis-spelled the name of corysrus in my last post.

Lee

Hello all. Very nice pictures of a very nice fish Corysrs! Thanks for sharing them with us. Silurus used the name Astroblepus grixalvii as a potential for the pictured species and the illustration of this fish that I have at hand is certainly quite close to the fish in the photos. But, there are a n...

Hello Birger, In that I kind of started the cetopsid topic off with my November COTM (Helogenes) entry, I figured that I'd make a little reply to your post. I am sure that HH can also follow up. A good term for the cetopsids that will take chunks out of other fishes (or eat their way inside) would b...

Hi all,

See you shortly at the Convention. Looking forward to it.

Lee

Hi Marc,

Happy to be able to help out a bit on PC.

Lee

Hi Jool and all.

Jools you might not want to move all Hemicetopsis back to Cetopsis just yet. Some of the Hemicetopsis are now placed in Cetopsis, but others are now in the genera Cetopsidium and Denticetopsis (Vari, Ferraris and de Pinna, 2005). If you need a listing let me know.

Lee

Hi Jools and Grahams,

Jools: Your point is well taken - and understood. It can be well to easy to get into a tight squeeze without the proper caution. Have a great vacation!

Grahams: The trip to FL was great. Thanks again for getting the permissions to use the pictures as you did.

Lee

Hi Jools. Your use of the site for education, and not promotion, is without question. If my message regarding the published photos of the Synodontis hybrids was unclear in regards to this I aplogize. I am in 100% agreement with your philosophy regarding the web use of photos and other materials that...

Hello Sidguppy and all. I have followed your posts on your experiences with Phyllonemus. You are definitely on the right path! I, like you, will be very interested to see what some of these new species look like once they are described. A confirmation of the large size that you mention would definit...

Hello all. While I am putting in a couple of posts there is one more thing that I thought would be worth mentioning. It is not exclusive, as you can find some mention of it on the internet. But in that I was recently in contact with one of the people working on the genus Phyllonemus, and he gave me ...

My apology for messing up the title of the article (so much for my proof reading). The latter part of it should read "...gene sequences." Sorry.

Lee

Hello all, There is a new major work on the families of catfishes coming out shortly. It is titled: "A phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of catfishes (Teleostei:Siluriformes) using rag1 and rag2 nuclear gen sequences." The authors are John P. Sullivan, John G. Lundberg and Michael ...

Sidguppy, and all - I think you, or anyone interested in Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis, will enjoy the paper. Once you get past the "heavy" molecular stuff there are lots of interesting tidbits. The authors divide the species into two clades. The first consists of S. multipunctatus and S. gr...

Hi Mats, As requested - 1. Type locality - "Brazil, Amazonas, upper Rio Negro, Sao Pedro, mouth of Igarape do Ibara, approximately 0 15'S, 66 44'W." (The O and the 66 need the little degree thingie). 2. Distribution -"Examined samples of Tetranematichthys wallacei originated at sites ...

Hi guys,

I am sure that things are in hand....but if by chance you need any of the reference data on T. wallacei from the original description I'll be happy to furnish it.

Lee

Hi Marc, Happy to try to help out. I have not done a full go over on the PC pictures of this fish and compared them with the descriptions to try to reach a "happy" diagnosis. I will do this when I return from vacation, but as I kind of noted I am working on the thought that T. wallacei is ...

Hi Guys, I hope you don't mind if I pop in here. I checked the material examined sections of the recently published revision of Tetranematichthys and came up with the following: 1. T. wallacei (which is the fish that we are most likely to see in the hobby)- The maximum size listed in the paper is 20...

Hi Graham,

Sounds great. I wish you luck.

Certainly I can't speak for Jools, but I suspect that (in the right area) he might like to use the pictures on the site if they were available (Jools???).

Lee

Hi Graham, Sidguppy, Marc, Mica and all. 1. "Parrot Syno" - Marc, you are scaring me with this :-) 2. Thanks to all for your comments. In that this topic has hit one of the slicks, it is worthy of discussion. 3. Re S. velifer - One of the "fishes" pictured (2 shots) in the articl...

Hello all. The topic of Synodontis hybrids (a topic not unheard of in this forum) is covered in the current issue of Aqualog News (No. 69). The article is ""Synos" en vogue Synodontis-Hybriden" by Harld Jahn. Two photographs each of two hybrids, which are reported to have their o...

Hello all, A couple of years back I had picked up three recently imported large P. cf. nigrolineatus (eight to 10 inches TL) and to provide some immediate "greens" I had placed some algae coated large industrial grade pieces of PVC pipe in their holding tank. They quickly "gobbled&quo...

Based on the recently published revision of Auchenipterichthys, the commonly called zamora cat of the hobby is the widely distributed species named Auchenipterichthys coracoideus. Most of these are imported into the hobby from Peru. There is still a species named A. thoracatus, but it has a limited ...

Very nice catfish! My best opinion is that it is Tatia musaica which was originally described from Venezuela in 1992.

Lee

Hi all. I will just follow along with my opinion (which seems to be the general feeling already) that Dinyar's first two pictures are S. notatus and the last one is S. congicus. In regards to the spots on S. notatus and S. congicus: The number of spots doesn't appear to mean much and they often do n...

Ryan,

Why don't you share with us some of your catfish experiences from your recent trip to Brazil? We'd love to hear them!

Lee

Hi all. Here I am Paul..thanks for the little kick. Re the use of "chicken" eggs as fishfood: This does go WAY back. In 1833 there was a business in Canton, MA [USA, southwest of Boston] that produced goldfish food for retail sale. The ingredients? The food consisted of "...a mixture ...

Thanks for the follow up Paul...and the agreement on the basic lack of good taste with the post. It is certainly not in keeping with the "gold standard" of catfishes that Jools has fostered.

Lee

Hi - Someone might want to check out the comments under the topic "Stupid" on SA Catfishes (Everything else). It is rather crude and might best be removed. Just my opinion.

Lee

Hi again, The Steven J. Walsh unpublished 1990 PhD thesis - A systematic revision of the neotropical catfish family Ageneiosidae - can be obtained in hard copy through University Microfilms International, 300 N. Zeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, U.S.A. The order number is 9116062. Steven's thesis does ...