HI Balaji There is a STUNNING black specimen represented (as O.horae IFIRC) in the book, "The Ornamental Aquarium Fish of India". I don't have the book unfortunately. If this is the book by KIshori Lal Tekriwal & Andrew Arunava Rao. ? Beware:- IMHO this book is not a good example to id...

These are P shawi, although they are tiny (20-25mm SL) and look like they have been out competed for food by the other Pseudolaguvia in the tank. They are housed in a tank with some E jerdoni; and at the moment they are being fed live grindal worms, micro worms and newly hatched brine shrimp. All th...

The Glyptothorax siamensis I have really settled in nicely; and are feeding well. Neil, those small lighter coloured catfish in with the 'Pseudolaguvia' have the look of young P shawi. The first set of photo's I took was not to clear as they kept trying to bury themselves in the sand. I have taken s...

Hi Dave

Maybe Corydoras acutus?

Could well be C pulcher without the dorsal marking.
As some C acutus specimens also lack the dorsal markings.
Tough one though

Hi Dave

Maybe Corydoras acutus?

I had four of these a few years ago housed with some mothcats and some anabantoids, they never showed any signs of aggression and kept to staying under the same piece of bogwood together during the daytime only coming out to feed. Steve wrote: - They were Ok with every other catfish but seemed to sq...

HI Balaji

I will send you the A vespa paper.

Greetings and Welcome to Planet Catfish guys

The dark one wrote: I think though this is as a result of the confusion that surrounded Hara horai when they came in the hobby. Some people (inc the trade and this site IIRC) wrongly assigned them the name Erethistes pusillus. I think the name Giant Moth Catfish is misleading when applied to E. pusi...

Another food to try is newly hatched brine shrimp.
Mine go hyperactive when baby brine shrimp is put into their tank.

The best option for you would be to feed it live foods first & foremost; such as daphnia, grindal worms and bloodworms, and do not feed any commercial foods, until the catfish is looking healthy and in good condition. It is best to isolate your catfish in a hospital tank. That way you can feed h...

One for the data team to review. Cat-elog entry for:- Hemiloricaria lanceolata In the Section entitled 'Husbandry Information' sub section 'Breeding'. it says. "Unreported". In Shanes World Reproduction Articles: Number 47 Spawning Hemiloricaria by Shane Linder . Shane wrote: I obtained th...

I was thinking it was either yarrelli or Sp (1) in the Cat e log. Most importantly I was hoping to find out if it is the Indian or Indochinese species since all the Bagarius I've seen are either from Thailand or Indonesia . I think Silurus is the best one to comment on this, as he is located in you...

Hi Stack deck,

I will send you:

1)Ng, H. H. and M. Kottelat 2000 (June)
Description of three new species of catfishes (Teleostei: Akysidae and Sisoridae) from Laos and Vietnam. Journal of South Asian Natural History v. 5 (no. 1): 7-15.

But I don't have the loach one you requested.

IMHO

At 9 inches it has all the hallmarks of

I think Adrian (medaka) has spawned E. pusillus, jerdoni and minuscula. HI Steve, yes I have spawned these. So far they are the only Erethstini they I have managed to spawn. I am trying to spawn C zonatus at the moment. but no joy so far. I do have these mothcats along with a couple of others. But ...

Greetings Gerhard, and welcome to Planet Catfish.

So, I take it your conclusion is that it's H. regani then, Mr. Taylor?

Hi Mats

I think that the catfish in question is more likely to be H regani than H margaritifer.

DoH! I thought I was overlooking something. Part of the answer was there to see, in this: He was captured in the Paraná River, Corrientes Province As we know the Paraná River runs through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. H margaritifer comes from the 'Upper Paraná River' drainage in Brazil. Your spec...

Do you think this one is a hybrid?

I don't know how one would tell?

HI Vlacek The only thing that I have come across that loosely bares any similarity to what you describe. Was an occurance many years ago when I was in a fish store and the owner showed me what he thought was funny. He pointed out to me a golden barb and said "yesterday I fed live tubifex to the...

One thing to throw into the mix here, regarding catchment area. H margaritifer and H regani was seperated by waterfalls along the river Parana, with H margaritifer being found above the falls and H regani below; however, In the later half of the last century due to water courses being changed by man...

HI Mark I take it you already know this, but when she deposits her eggs they have already been fertilized. Yes. Although I would have liked to film their coming together when they copulated. I have not long gotten a new toy, (cam corder). I have filmed both Corydoras melini and Brochis splendens cop...

There is an article by Shane Linder of F acus that you may find interesting.
See: CotM for July 2008.

[Mod edit: Add link to COTM article --Mats]

Mine spawned again yesterday... I Noticed that the female was quite full with eggs with the male twisting and turning around the female. Alas; I had only dashed into my fish house to feed some C112 fry before I had to go and keep an appointment and witnessed this behaviour. Only if I had gone in ten...

I have just bought some of these from Pier Aquatics here in the UK, lovely looking catfish.

Must be the time of the year?

My T intermedia have also spawned.
Is there anyone else who had T intermedia spawn at this time of year?

HI juanitoman does anyone know where i can get a Mystus leucophasis(Asian upside down cat) online???? Try sending a PM to Dave Rinaldo he is from your part of the world. If Dave can not help you with an on-line seller he may be able to give you the name and addresses of some LFS in Texas that might ...

HI Juan IMHO I think your Aspidoras are closer to C036. Without knowing from what source your Aspidoras originally came from it would be wrong to guess if they are hybrids or just 'sports' from their breeding. Like I said before there are a few Aspidoras species that are variable in themselves and w...

HI Juan The problem with some of the Aspidoras species is that they can vary quite a lot from specimen to specimen, and can make positive identification of some species difficult to say the least. IMHO Photo one resembles to me, to be more like A rochai, than A fuscoguttatus. Like wise your photo of...