Hi Soccerdad925,
I'm in Stockton, but alas, I don't get out fishing.
Eric

Suckermouth wrote:The free links on Zootaxa papers that are not open access include only the first page and the pages with references.

I'm not used to encountering truncated downloads like that, so I didn't check after page 1. Major faux pas on my end -- Sorry about that.

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/z03869p312f.pdf

This should be a free download. Please let me know if it's not.

I didn't get back to the LFS until last night. Upon closer inspection, yep, the nose says it all, if a nose can talk: It's

Corydoras paleatus

, not

Scleromystax macropterus

(sorry the photo is so bad - Nokia 900 phones have crummy cameras ). Thanks for the input.

How to breed albino Corys, scaled up for commercial production (here's how they did it in India): Mahapatra, B.K. & Dutta, S. 2014. Breeding and Rearing of an Exotic Ornamental Catfish, Corydorus (sic) aeneus (Gill, 1858) in Kolkata, West Bengal and Its Economics. Proceedings of the Zoological S...

I have a group of hybrid corys whose parents are albino aeneus and gold lasers. Unless the two species are very closely related, interspecific hybridization opens a whole new can of worms, when compared to intraspecific hybridization. Does anybody know the chromosomal make up of either aeneus or go...

I would have thought the snout shapes of the two would easily tell them apart. Doesn't Scleromystax have a longer snout with a flatter dorsal profile? Is it as straight forward as that? I'll be back at the LFS tonight, so I'll take a look. Are there any other features of clear distinction in juveni...

What are the definitive ways to tell apart a sub-adult high fin peppered cory Scleromystax macropterus and a sub-adult long-finned variety of peppered cory Corydoras paleatus ? I can see that the paleatus tend to be more grey/black whereas the macropterus tend to be more tan/brown, but in the photos...

Here is an article ( Active Inbreeding in a Cichlid Fish and Its Adaptive Significance ) that finds some level of inbreeding to be a good thing for the fish in this case, with no measurable negative effects on growth rate. But there are plenty of other articles that show, not surprisingly, inbreedin...

This being said - would it make sense with a limited population of a certain fish (i.e. chances of getting new wild stock for better blood lines are slim) to breed only the larger fry (ones that are more heterozygous)? To continue the captive population in the best way possible. Regardless of the i...

In my limited experience with corys, banjo cats, and several cichlid species, I find that within a group of juveniles (all siblings hatched at about the same time), there will inevitably be one, or two, or maybe a few individuals, that accelerate ahead in growth, far ahead of all the other juvies. O...

Thanks Rob.
Cheers, Eric

Hi Steveh28, C numbers were given out by the German magazine DATZ and Hans Evers. They don't handle this any longer, so Ian Fuller assigns CW numbers on his website corydorasworld.com. Thank you. I was completely unaware of the CW numbers. From what you are saying, is the C numbering system now clos...

This article doesn't specify any catfish in its abstract, but there are lots of cats listed in the species inventory. Lilian Casatti, María Angélica Pérez-Mayorga, Fernando Rogério Carvalho, Gabriel Lourenço Brejão, and Igor David da Costa. 2013. The stream fish fauna from the rio Machado basin, Ron...

Hi All, I'm relatively new here, and so this question may have been asked before: Is there a resource we can access that describes the various C number corys, and which provides information about why a particular C number was created? I've tried to read up on the C numbers at several websites; I und...

Hi Jools, Once you click on "New Topic", the new topic page will show a set of icons that you can choose by clicking a radio button - they are just above where you title the thread. When I first read this, I was confused, because I was sure that I hadn't noticed any such radio buttons by t...

... would also require browsers to send data about location as text based location doesn't work. I could implement a country dropdown, but that's not much use for big countries. Because this is an international forum, it also means a global solution is required. Hi Jools, Even what you're describin...

An idea could be to tell ones continent. I think that would help in many cases. For instances, If I have a problem, and somebody suggests to use a product X I wonder whether it is available. If the kind suggester lives in the USA chances are that for me, on the European continent, it might not be a...

Hi Jamesfish, I see your point about privacy. I too was considering that problem when I started this thread. But as I thought about it, people already choose to provide their location as much or as little as they please when they set up their profiles, so the opt in/out option already exists. And, t...

Hi Mats, Yes, I understand your points. I'm not a programmer; I don't know how hard or easy it would be, so I can only imagine that if it were easy, you probably would have done it already. To clarify my idea, I didn't intend something so thorough as what you described. I wasn't thinking of physical...

Hi Jools, If the icons are user selectable, I don't see a way to do that when I'm typing a post. The only symbol options I see are the smiley emoticons. Hmmm, mystery not solved. This is the first time anyone has asked this?!? Wow, I'm not sure what to make of that- either I'm really naive and every...

Hi Jools, I've done that on several occasions, expecting that to work; that's how I figured out what the red icons (unread messages) and black icons (no unread messages) mean. What about the scrolling ones, or those with stars, flames, question marks, thought bubbles, etc.? When I hover over those, ...

Okay, maybe I've figured out the red symbols - does that mean unread posts? What about the other symbols? Definitely, a legend of FAQ would be helpful for us newbies on the forum. Thanks so much.

Eric (Bekateen)

Hi, I have two suggestions or questions about the Sort and Search functions within the Member listings: I would like to find out if there are other catfish enthusiasts near my part of the world. Currently, we can sort the members by location, but the alphabetical location sorting occurs first by the...

Hi, I'm a relatively new member to this site, and I'm always puzzled by the circular icons that appear beside forum threads (with lines of text, scrolling lines of text, red or black colors, stars, question marks, etc). I'd like to know what those mean; perhaps you have that posted elsewhere on the ...

Did you mention the size or maturity of all these Corys? Perhaps some or all are juveniles. If so, just keep fattening them up. My albino corys and trilineatus always spawn after 2-3 days of live tubifex worms and a 50% water change. Good luck!

Thank you FerocactusLatispinus, and everyone else, for your feedback. Unless anybody has something else to offer, I will consider this C141. Now that I've reached this point, I'm thinking, "Well that's just peachy!" Even if I know what it is, I also know three other things - 1) it's NOT ag...

Hi Karsten, Your idea that the mystery cat may be Corydoras sp. (C141) is a be good possibility. One thing that bothers me about the other likely spp. ( ornatus and schwartzi ) is that the photos tend to show them with two lateral stripes (well, ornatus has 3, but the uppermost is very high on the f...

As for corydoras hybridization, I don't really know how common that is. I have a C. sodalis and a C. paleatus , and both prefer to hang around, chase, and nudge each other, rather than be with my C. aeneus , together or apart. They are all about the same size, and it makes me wonder what a sodalis ...

Hi All, I recently purchased a catfish (shown in the two pictures), sold as C. agassizii , from a pet store that I've previously considered pretty reliable on fish names. But I already own several cats which I believe are agassizii (shown in a group of 3) and this new cat does not look the same. unk...