You mentioned a total of three fish. I agree with Sandor that the purported female may be Chaetostoma. But as far as I can see, the two fish in the last photo are both Panaqolus, not Chaetostoma Better photos of all three fish would help a lot.

Cheers, Eric

Welcome!

If there was a giant pleco in that lake, wouldn't the lake have been filled in by now (despite its great size and depth) by pleco poop? Think about how fast our plecos foul and fill their tanks. Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum.

okaY, I was wrong about the cause. I just saw the cat-elog image updates in the right column. And yet I can still get the error, so it's still not fixed; but I don't know why.

Cheers,
Eric

Sorry to disappoint, but it just happened to me on the home page again. It's intermittent; sometimes the homepage loads and sometimes it won't. I suspect the error message appears on the left side of the page when cat-elog image updates should appear on the right. I think this because other right co...

Hi JodiJ, Welcome to PlanetCatfish. Twotankamin's advice is sound. If you don't have real water testing abilities at home, contact your LFS (local fish stores). Many stores will test your water for free. But before you take your water in to the store, ask them how they want you to collect it, bag it...

Jools wrote:... it is due to an issue introduced trying to fix this issue!...

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... 36&t=42232

Sorry for causing trouble, Jools.

There was an old thread on which the species names of these images were provided. I scanned the thread and found names for lots of the pictures, but not this specific one (other than simply a Hypancistrus). Here are the links to three of the posts in that thread which specifically name names, but ag...

mellor21 wrote:

Jools wrote:This is further complicated by the addition of the Black Phantom Pleco,

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Jools

Nice! Can't get enough
Wish there were pics available of it

Pics on line now:

While I don't disagree with either of your posts, I'd urge caution about judging this article before actually reading the entire text. I don't say this because I've read it - I haven't; I don't yet have access to the book yet. But rather my perspectives are these: (1) This article is a review articl...

The "Best" shops out here ... are ... Ocean tropical fish, Aquaforest, and Albany aquarium. Are the "Ocean" and "Aquaforest" you mentioned the San Francisco stores called Ocean Aquarium on Cedar Street and Aquaforest Aquarium on Filmore Street? Those are my two favorit...

Hi Jools, This is probably a trivial behavioral irregularity I've noticed when looking at the pop-up CLOG images of a species when viewed from the Cat-eLog "Recent Species Updates" page. Some images are not properly oriented, such that the fish faces right instead of left. Here are two exa...

its a "fluval edge pre filter sponge"... this is a fluval 206 entry level canister filter ... Even though this foam piece was made by fluval, it was not made for this type of filter- was designed for a totally different filter. I understand your point. I'm not familiar with this Fluval ca...

Hi Justarn, Nice looking fish. Thanks for sharing. One thing I saw in a video had me curious and a little concerned. In the video entitled "big tank" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXG2JUMu4cM) there is a syno that appears at 53 seconds. IXG2JUMu4cM The lateral line is white and there al...

Hi Mostlyfairy, I'm glad to hear that the biological filtration has finally settled in. Honestly, 31 days is not too long to wait for a new aquarium to establish itself fully, so that doesn't seem unusually long to me. Yes, you should expect the foam pre-filter to cut back on some of the water flow,...

Hi Naturalart, Yes I know what you're saying, and I've had that experience already at stores in the past. I have three LFS in my town that I shop at: Carter's Pet Mart, Randy's Fish Palace, and Twins Aquarium. These fish are at Randy's. Also, about 45 min away, I like Tropical Haven in Modesto. Aren...

Nice. I wish you good luck and smooth sailing.

If I can make a request, would it be possible for you to add the on-mouse-over pop-up function to the My Cats images, just as you already have for the My Aquaria images?

Cheers, Eric

Aupérin, B., & Baroiller, J.-F. 2015. Teleost Fish Handling and Transport under Reduced Stress Conditions. In, Fish Cytogenetic Techniques: Ray-Fin Fishes and Chondrichthyans (edited by Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Eva Pisano, Fausto Foresti, & Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo), pp. 1-10. CRC Pre...

Peart, CR; (2015) Detecting a signature of adaptive radiation: diversification in Lake Tanganyika catfishes. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London) . ABSTRACT This thesis compares two independent radiations of catfish in Lake Tanganyika, Claroteine and Synodontis catfishes, to investigate...

Gupta, S. 2014. Feeding and Breeding Biology of Mystus vittatus : A Review. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 2 (1), 128-130 ABSTRACT Mystus vittatus is an important catfish species having good market demand as food fish and recently it has also made its entry in ornamental fi...

Srivastav, A.K. & Roy, D. 2015. Effects of malachite green (Triarylmethane dye) and Pyceze (Bronopol) on the hematological parameters of a freshwater catfish Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch). International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 2(6), 119-122 ABSTRACT Malachite green is an ext...

Boerrigter, J.G.J., van den Bos, R., van de Vis, H., Spanings, T., & Flik, G. 2015. Effects of density, PVC-tubes and feeding time on growth, stress and aggression in African catfish ( Clarias gariepinus ). Aquaculture Research, 2015 , 1-16. doi:10.1111/are.12703 ABSTRACT Successive exposure to...

Thanks. I'll pass it along to the LFS. Hopefully they'll change the tank label.

Hi All,

My LFS got in a large group of these plecos (see photos), labeled as , but IMO the ID looks wrong.

I'm thinking these are . Is this correct?

Thanks, Eric

Hi Barbie, Here are a few references about the plague. The cdc.gov PDF file is referenced on the plecoplanet page: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16598 http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2889 http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38309 http://...

This particular seller is in Texas. About as far away from Canada as you can get in the U.S... But I don't know about shipping internationally; I presume that it's either prohibited or costly. Depending on where you are in Ontario, Canada, one of the Aquabid auctions is in Parma, Ohio (near the shor...

http://www.planetcat...t=42193#p287637 The link is broken: Here is the working link: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=42193#p287637 By the way, this is one of the same people offering the fish on aquabid ( http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcatfishp&...

There are at least three auctions on Aquabid.com claiming to have L183. I don't know if they'll ship to Canada. Good luck.

Wow. Really awesome. And the Godzilla nickname is very fitting!

Bekateen is a contraction of one of my children's nicknames and the book, The Velveteen Rabbit, which was the first book our kids ever had... Needless to say, we read that book a lot. And my avatar is the symbol of X.A.N.A., a malevolent artificial intelligence which exists in a virtual world and is...