The adipose fin (especially in the bottommost picture) doesn't look like the drawing of S. multimaculatus ? The drawing has a long low adopose, where as the live fish has a medium height, short adipose fin. Also, is it possible that the live fish are actually two different species themselves? Also, ...

Seeing as this page is full of images anyway, here are the fish in question again... http://www.corydorasworld.com/albums2/album127/syno1.jpg http://www.corydorasworld.com/albums2/album127/syno2.jpg http://www.corydorasworld.com/albums2/album127/syno4.jpg http://www.corydorasworld.com/albums2/album1...

Yup, Rusty is right, doing this via the forum censor is not a good plan for the reasons Silurus shows.

Jools

Hi, in Aquarama 2003 held in Singapore, there's this tank of pl*cos that look similar to the ones you've mentioned, anyone can confirm if they're the same? http://pl*cofanatics.buildtolearn.com/4images/details.php?image_id=96 http://pl*cofanatics.buildtolearn.com/4images/details.php?image_id=100 Lo...

I reckon it's <I>Hypancistrus insepctor</I>?

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... /677_f.htm

Jools

Wow they also found this fish http://www.mimbon-aquarium.de/archiv18/222.jpg which is absolutely wonderfull! Never seen an Ancistrus this beatiful. I've been looking for exporters of that fish for some time. I think it is a Glyptopterichthys and probably a very young one that loses that fantastic c...

Are these the pics from Seegers '96? http://www.fishbase.org/images/Syafr_u0.jpg http://www.fishbase.org/images/Syafr_j0.jpg http://www.fishbase.org/images/Syafr_u2.gif http://www.fishbase.org/images/Syafr_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.org/images/Syafr_u1.gif There are very close IMHO? Would be interes...

plesner wrote:Using that as a guide, I'd yell 'HYBRID' the moment I saw my Synodontis contractus at least as far as the eyes and body shape is concerned.

Which is why, in my second paragraph, I said it was too easy to do so!

Jools

Jools i understand dorsomaculatus to mean the same as you. However i would have thought that this species would also have more spots on the dorsal fin as well or does this not apply? Ichthyologists don't like going on fin patterns too much as they have a nasty habit of being bitten off, badly prese...

Is that a feeling or are there any signs to look for ? A crooked body shape, disproportionate body, eyes to fins relative sizes, concave head profile, missing or slightly short gill covers. It's hard to say and gut feeling comes into it too much I would say. Nature gives us so much variety it is of...

The fish is L341 as of the September DATZ I think.

Jools

I suspect S. dorsomaculatus. I would have suspected S. dorsomaculatus to have more spots considering the name, Hoek Hee whatever it turns out can you still upload a picture of S. dorsomaculatus so we can all have a look? I would take dorsomaculatus to mean spots running along the back which (from o...

Probably <I>Ancistrus punctatus</i> although the pink is a bit more like orange once settled. Yes, they do get that big!

Jools

I'll think about it... No seriously, I'll send a few pictures which you can choose from and edit/cut as you wish - but wouldn it be smarter to wait for a possible ID ? Yes and no. I would label them Synodontis sp(x) for the time being and then change them, but I'm in no particular rush to add them ...

Silurus wrote: The caudal peduncle is too slender, for one (Nannoptopoma looks a lot like Otocinclus superficially)

True, I think balance of opinion swings back to Oxyropsis.

Some better lit pictures would help as well with the colouration and I'd also like to get a good look at the eyes.

Jools

Took the liberty to touch up that dark 4th shot...



Jools

Wow, they ARE lovely. The only fish that springs to mind is S. afrofischeri but Silurus has the bible...

Would very much like to add these pictures to the cat-elog (hint hint )

Jools

Now, this one I find very interesting indeed. Maybe it is <I>Nannoptopoma spectabile</I> (Eigenmann, 1914) from Colombia. Can we have lots more pictures please - this would be a great addition to the cat-elog.

Jools

I've changed the title of this topic to Questions about black or brown bullhead catfish. The original title (Questions about a catfish) was a bit general for this forum...

Jools

http://www.planetcatfish.com/jpg/loricariidae/parancistrus_aurantiacus1.jpg or http://www.planetcatfish.com/jpg/loricariidae/ancistrinae_sp(l269)7.jpg ? I was going on the opercular odontodal growth and the shape of the sucker mouth. Now I'm not so sure... Can we get a picture from above to show th...

Not this fellowby any chance?

Give me the name and address of the shop and I might be able to arrange some photographs.

Jools

Looks more like L269 to me...

Jools

OK, think I've got it sussed. The trick is to use the HTML ( & # 8 2 2 4 ; ) for the † symbol but NOT in the database otherwise it sorts the family to before those beginning with the letter A. Ah, good old ASCII...

Jools

I've had a look into why - it's a caching / offsite access thing. To see the image type the URL to the image ( http://community.webshots.com/s/image4/0/26/70/99202670NvYZzH_fs.jpg ) into the browser address. If you just click on the link the webshots site understands what you're doing and doesn't pr...

Nope, still not working. Please don't send it to me via email, then no one else will be able to see it!

Jools

Aaaaaargh!

Jools

I take my nieces and nephews and let them bid on some stuff - that gets me loads of brownie points AND I get helpers to carry all the boxes of fish!!! Won't be doing that this time becuase I don't have my fishroom any more :-(. Where else can you see grown men bidding for second hand hair curlers (A...

Afraid I can't see the image.

Jools

Is it that the <acronym title="Local Fish Store">LFS</acronym> is incorrect? or is there a similar hypancistrus? There are no similar fish to L134 (although L134 are very variable) and they are a species of <I>Peckoltia</I>, the dentition and head profile is different in <I>Hypancistrus</...

Yup, get used to it.

Jools