Hi Ap3kzz, Welcome to PlanetCatfish. I agree that if you consider the L046 , you'd better make sure they're identified correctly. But you said you're thinking of something simpler, easier to take care of. Some hypans are pretty easy to take care of, but one rule of thumb many people follow is to kee...

All links (including Add to my cats) just worked for me.

Cheers, Eric

What about that paper from 2016 which concluded that 333 and 66 are the same species? https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=43573&hilit=L333 Yes, they may be the same species, but that doesn't rule out the prospect that they are different color morphs within one species (...

I agree with nvcichlids - I think it's an off-colored sterbai. Also, it appears to be smaller than your other sterbai. I think you'll find that it darkens up as it ages.

Please update us with new photos as it grows. I'm curious to see what it looks like as an adult.

Cheers, Eric

Maybe female, but it looks too small to sex reliably from these photos. How long is this fish, excluding the tail?

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, we used to get those (but made out of stainless steel) in California. Sorry, no help I know. Just thinking out loud.

Burton, A. 2017. What's for dinner?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment , 15 (4), 224-224. Full article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1487/full Videography: http://underwatervideo.co.za/en-us/about/location/cavedivinginnamibia.aspx Source of photos and videos: http://www.arki...

Swarça, A. C., Dias, A. L., & Fenocchio, A. S. 2017. Cytogenetic studies in the redtail catfish, Phractocephalus hemioliopterus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)(Siluriformes, Pimelodidae) a giant fish from Amazon basin. Comparative Cytogenetics, 11 (1), 119–128. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i1.11152 ...

And more reports from India and Indonesia: Rao, K. R., & Sunchu, V. 2017. A report on Pterygoplichthys pardalis Amazon sailfin suckermouth Catfishes in Freshwater tanks at Telangana state, India. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 5 (2): 249-254. http://www.fisheriesjournal....

Just found another article (http://www.academia.edu/download/33213777/zt01462p040.pdf) that says crown. Note, this latter paper mentions tooth crowns in Loricaria , not Hemiodontichthys , but the point is simply that the paper says the tooth "crowns" (not tooth crows) are sexually dimorphi...

I suspect that's supposed to be "crown" instead of "crow." See this article , Figure 13a-b show spoon-shaped male teeth, Figure 13c-d show pointed female teeth. The citation is: Isbrücker, I. J. H., & Nijssen, H. (1974). On Hemiodontichthys acipenserinus and Reganella depress...

Interesting to know that for this Clarias species the period when the gender is induced by temperature is known. For many species this effect is known or suspected, but I never read before when the period starts and ends. See also this post: Temperature-dependent sex determination in Clarias gariep...

Nahida Rahman Mitu. 2017. Reproductive Biology of the Female Asian Striped Dwarf Catfish Mystus Tengara (Hamilton, 1822) (Siluriformes: Bagridae) in the Ganges River of Rajshahi, Northwestern Bangladesh. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 17 , 589-598. DOI: 10.4194/1303-2712-v17_3_1...

Santi, S., Rougeot, C., Toguyeni, A., Gennotte, V., Kebe, I., & Melard, C. 2017. Temperature preference and sex differentiation in African catfish, Clarias gariepinus . J. Exp. Zool. , 327A (1), 28–37. DOI: 10.1002/jez.2066   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.2066/full ABSTRACT The ...

Li, Y., Geng, X., Bao, L., Elaswad, A., Huggins, K.W., Dunham, R. & Liu, Z. 2017. A deletion in the Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome 4 ( Hps4 ) gene appears to be responsible for albinism in channel catfish. Molecular Genetics and Genomics , 292 (3), 663–670. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00438-017-1302-8...

https://youtu.be/oyUFH8TWvmY oyUFH8TWvmY Hi co77, the YouTube link didn't work. I fixed it for you. In the future, when you want to link to a YouTube video, the only part of the video address that you put inside the YouTube tags [ youtube ] [ / youtube ] is the unique video number, in your instance...

Hi Jools,

Sorry but there's another new world cat trying to sneak into the old world. plots off the Ivory Coast.

Cheers, Eric

Freeze dried plankton might be too big for their mouths. Is it? And no, I think your pencilfish will be okay if they are as big as the oil cats. I have some golden tetras in with mine, and the oil cats never bother the tetras.

Cheers, Eric

Wright, JJ. 2017. A new diminutive genus and species of catfish from Lake Tanganyika (Siluriformes: Clariidae). Journal of Fish Biology , First published: 26 July 2017. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13374   http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13374 Abstract The examination of material representing one of Lake Tanganyi...

That is impressive construction, Viktor. Good luck with the pond.

Cheers, Eric

This fish was being sold as "Orange Laser Cory". Is it a CW010? Could be. The colors in the photo are very brilliant, which might make it more difficult to confirm. Adult CW010 have the stripe going all the way down the caudal peduncle, to the base of the tail. But there are photos of fis...

I have six also. When I first bought them, they were sometimes active day and night. Now they are just nocturnal. I feed mine live black worms from a surface worm cone feeder (suction cups to glass at water level). Cool fish.

Cheers, Eric

Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

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Hi Missilemanatee, First, welcome to PlanetCatfish. I don't know if your catfish is having an identity crisis, but I am puzzled as to why the photos appear (to me) to be upside-down or sideways in your above post. And yet, when I click on each link, they all appear normal - right-side-up. :-) No mat...

Hi jarayrapheal,

Yes that is a bad camera angle. . A better photo would yield a more confident ID. But even so, I think you're correct: .

Cheers, Eric

Uttam Kumar Sarkar, Praveen Agnihotri, Ravindra Kumar, Abhishek Awasthi, Brijesh Kumar Pandey, & Abha Mishra. 2017. Dynamics of Inter-Population Reproductive Pattern in Butter Catfish, Ompok Bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794) from Different Rivers in India. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Scienc...

Ríos, R., Bouza, C., Gutiérrez, V., & G. García. 2017. Species complex delimitation and patterns of population structure at different geographic scales in Neotropical silver catfish ( Rhamdia : Heptapteridae). Environmental Biology of Fishes , 1–21. First Online: 14 June 2017. https://doi.org/10...

Oh, and no, I don't think breather bags are going to help the fish last 8 days. Some may make it, but the risk of mortality is very high, I'd think. I'm not stating that from experience with such long shipping times, but just my best educated guess. According to the Kordon website, (Kordon markets b...

Be careful what you get under the name "orange laser" cory. If you ask the people who study corys, the first rule of thumb is that common names are meaningless because some sellers "invent" names to make their fish sound more valuable. And in that context, no authority to my know...

Eight days? I'd think that's not a good idea. The fish will almost certainly be dead on arrival. Why not overnight the fish? It is possible: My LFS (in California) regularly orders fish from Czechoslovakia (take that for what it is) and from Germany, and in both cases the fish arrive faster from tho...