Hi Karsten,

fish 1 is Auchenipterichthys coracoideus, agree
fish 2 might be Trachelyopterus cf. galeatus
fish 7 made me think of Hassar orestis first
fish 8 is Pterobunocephalus dolichurus, agree
fish 9 is an undescribed Bunocephalus I think
fish 10 is Pterobunocephalus aff. depressus

Eric, I see you already headed southwards. Good luck down there, you will possibly regret your choice though.

Hi there, I know the convention this weekend will not be about catfish, but anyway, is there anybody going? From what I hear it is going to be an amazing meeting with people from all over the US. I'd be happy to meet there and have a glass. https://convention.cichlid.org/?_ga=2.136354608.1037149518....

Hi, indeed, this is H.basilisko. Normally, at that size they are about two years old, a typical size they have when imported. What makes you think it is between 10 and 15, did it come back from another customer before? They get old, but it is always hard to tell the maximum age, 20 at least, 30 mayb...

Agreed with Viktor, a great species, but nothing for the normal sized tank in the living room.

Hi,

there is an article about this and the even less known "red albino form" of CW010 in the current issue of the BSSW-Report. Obviosuly, I can not publish it online now, but I will happily do so in a while from now.

Hi,

you got a Hypancistrus from the Xingu, a member of the "wormlined pattern complex".

Hi,

they are all Hypancistrus and likely debilittera.

Hi,

you can breed all strains of L 236 with each other.

Hi,

both are the same species and it is almendarizi.

Hi,

it looks very much like what we used to call sp. "Tigre" or "Tiger" so far, the mentioned distribution also matches this species.

It is not common in the hobby, but now and then there are exports.

Hi, there is no official key to identify a species by looking on a mouth/oral disk. It's all about experience, one day you will have that kind of a feeling that "a mouth" should belong to "a species" or at least a genus. The genus is easy, but the species requires hundreds of hun...

Hi, I think L 78 is the fish mentioned as H. aff. pusarum (fig.10) in the paper. The eye size of H. aff. pusarum matches L 78 better than H. velhomonge does. Plus, in DATZ Rainer mentioned the elongated caudal lobes, which are also present in the specimen of H. aff. pusarum. Obviously they might be ...

Hi,

you got a man made form of P. pardalis, as you already found out. It's sometimes called "chocolate pleco" too.

And you got a pair, good luck breeding them.

Good morning,

more likely L 4/L 5/L 28/L 73 from Brazil.

Hi,

I am not aware of an actually happened crossbred yet, but yes, it can happen.

Do you have lateral pictures? L 7 and L 240 tend to show a stress coloration very quickly, in a white bucket both might look just like the other one.

Hi,

a juvenile of the common Ancistrus sp., nice looking at this age.

Hi,

I'd say H. contradens too.
Furthermore I am pretty sure that L 201 and L 471 are representatives of the same species, and yours is none of these two.

Hi, as you already suggested it is a female, yes. The name "Angelicus pleco" is used more often for this fish than one might assume, it has some spots, so why not call it "Angelicus"? Same name is applied to P. albomaculatus, H. contradens, L 107, L 181 etc. I guess it is because...

The "minis" are nothing but P. punctatus, if you are lucky you end up with a P. weberi. The exporters might either name them like this to sell them better, or maybe just get fooled by the juvenile pattern themselves, leading them to think they are a different species, because they look so ...

Agree on L 205, I don't see why we remain so focused on the separation of L 205 and P. brevis though. L 205 is cf. brevis in my opinion and will be brevis if it should ever be looked at more detailed. I'm not referring to this post only, but in general there is a lot of discussion about these two, w...

Hi, it is none of the known debilittera-types and doesn't belong to this group. It can't be H. sp. "Guaviare" either, the eye is too large, the head to high. I think it is likely a hybrid of a wormlined Hypancisrus from Xingu (I guess L 66) and one of the H. margaritatus-complex (L 136 e.g.)

Hi,

they are Baryancistrus sp. "L 142", also called LDA 33.

Hi,

Eric is right, you've got a nice specimen of L 206, plus I think it is a male.
Colour variations can occur due to the colours of the surrounding, like in your case a dark substrate makes the fish go darker too.

Hi Alex,

great to hear from you again, and even better that you were able to obtain some vandragti and managed to breed them. I remember you were looking for this species for a long time.

cheers
Daniel

bsmith wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 00:30 So what are we going with here because I am flipping back and forth between pics of L333 and L134 and my fish and I can’t really distinguish one from the other. Especially that last pic and mine.

All yours are P. compta, while the last picture posted is L 333.

Impossible to tell at this age and with no more information.
I have seen youngsters in this age of both species, and couldn't tell how to tell them apart.

Hi Birger, the first ones coming to my mind are the Hopliancistrus from January (?): L 17 as Hopliancistrus wolverine L 171 as Hopliancistrus xikrin L 361 as Hopliancistrus munduruku L 422 as Hopliancistrus xavante Possibly Hypostomus crulsi though from this summer, which is yet to be identified as ...

Hi

I don't see why this should not be considered a common Ancistrus sp. (cf. or aff. cirrhosus). There is nothing I can spot on the photos which would lead me towards another ID.