magnum4 wrote:In the cat-elog its down as Panaqolus sp. (L226) and the common jool used isn't there.
Which brings me to another question in Panaqolus still valid or is its short life over?

It's sunk and it's on my list to change.

Jools

they look quite alike but i'm not sure it's an L226. The pictures in the catelog show fish with stripes on it's tale while the pic i posted shows dots on the tail. They do differ. I think given the above picture is a very young fish and that both fish come from the same part of the world that we ar...

http://www.l-welse.com/forum/uploads/post-23-1065549480.jpg AHA! Now, this pictures (in the l-welse forum) are (I think) of a very special pleco to me that I have not seen in a very long time I don't think it actually has an l-number. Look at page 731 (top left) of the Burgess atlas - is this the f...

I found another picture in the album - http://www.corydorasworld.com/albums2/mallemalle/sturisoma_sp.jpg Still just don't know, still tend towards <I>S. festivum</I> but not so sure now. You are right about the dorsal fin curve, but the fish does look just too small to be showing this as obviously a...

yannfulliquet wrote:L206 is its L code if I am correct.

Err, L206 doesn't have the trademark fine squiggles on the head and the tail is not sold boldly coloured.

Jools

A nicely coloured, young, L226 - Iquitos tiger pleco - I spent a fun night fishing for them on a large floating log in Peru. Didn't catch any but saw plenty about 1" in size and they looked just like the picture.

Jools

The only official l-number in all this is L329. This is, I think, a young small fish and that all these pictures, l and lda numbers mentioned thus far are the same species which obviously changes colour (although not shape very much) as it grows and also adult males and females look different. I als...

Caol_ila wrote:Hi!
You also have to take into Account that L329 was presented in 1997 as LDA27.

Sorry, I thought is was LDA28?

Jools

Anyone nearby with a digicam that can nab some pics for us / the cat-elog?

Jools

Hi bettabuddy,

Welcome onboard, thanks for putting your location in your profile, and I hope you enjoy our forum.

Jools

Hi! With 17cm, it really can't be a festivum, the filament should be really presents on the dorsal and pectoral fins. The body should really be higher than this. Cheers Yann SL or TL? Even at 17cm SL, the profile isn't that far off. The filament I agree with but maybe it has been removed one way or...

Hi! They honestly are the same fish! On the first set you can see the white band on the middle pic. They were very pale and brownish but became very very dark in my big tank with dimm light. Im quite confused as you know that my other "common" ancistrus doesnt look a bit like these guys.....

I agree with Yann, the first set of pictures are young common bristlenoses. I also cannot see dorsal white seams on them and Ancistrus hoplogenys have very obvious ones at that size and also don't get that pale IME. The second set of pictures are harder to ID, but they certainly do not look like the...

RogerMcAllen wrote:How much of the $20 shirt would go to the site?

Roughly $5. I think you can get first time money off coupons or something reasonably easier, but I've been a cafepress member for a few years now. Any discounted good still pay the same to the site.

Jools

Toirtis wrote:Twain quote sounds great to me....and please use ecru shirts.....white is just too bright/stark, and black tends to look tacky.

What colour is ecru? Aside from white, the only other colour is grey.

Jools

I guess it's just taste, but I hate those kind of shirts these days. Does anyone else agree with SG? Should I think of another range of the same (white) t-shirts with a big pciture front and back? I have emailed cafepress about the black t-shirt thing. I will report back. Keep the feeback coming. Jo...

Are you sure? If they are C. duplicareus then the stripe on the back is a bit thin and why do they have yellow as opposed to orange head caps? They are also a touch tall in the body.

All this could just be the conditions of the photograph, which is why I asked.

Jools

Can you think of any other examples of fishes that share a common name but are phylogenetically far apart? Dinyar, Wolf fish (i.e. the nasty Atlantic dwelling fish and the nasty Amazon dwelling fish <I>Hoplias</I>) was the first to spring to mind but then butterfly fish, angel fish to name a few if...

OK, I know it has taken some time but the planet catfish online store is now LIVE . Hoorah! Visit http://www.planetcatfish.com/core/shop.php and get your credit cards out!!! Please do comment on other things you'd like to see, species, other types of merchandise and so on. Cheers, Jools [Mod edit: r...

Those are C. burgessi, right?

Silurus wrote:Excluding the Ancistrinae, the other four subfamilies (Lithogeninae, Neopl*costominae, Hypostominae, Loricariinae) are currently considered valid.

... and Hypoptopomatinae.

Jools

The reason I used "eat" in quotes was that I meant to ingest wood and actually do something beneficial with it - as opposed to <I>Ancistrus</I> which I haven't observed making the same sort of inroads into my bogwood collection. I mean large <I>Scobinancistrus</i> leave marks behind on sof...

Loric, Cool, actually we mods often go on about the location as it is very useful but we oftenoverlook the issue is that folks just haven't figured out how to use it. These forums are many peoples first forum and so it takes a little time to get used to "ho we do things around here". Anywa...

This is now fixed.

Jools

Shane wrote:Add to this L 92 which I call "The wood -eating Lasiancistrus." These things go through driftwood like cucumber.
-Shane

Wonder if those things have spoon shaped teeth?

Jools

Silurus wrote:Jools, gave you the review last week, but it's still not up...

You did, it's in line after the cotm, recent forum topics L260 and <I>Peckoltia vittata</I> pieces of work are done, might have it online today.

Jools

SG_Eurystomus wrote:might not look neat or be up to standards, but if you re-place the sturisoma species as "sturi-soma" and leave the sturisomathichthys as it is, you might avoid the bug.....

I could, but I find that more of an "uglyness" than the wrong link.

Jools

Just to say that I will be posting an article on spawning L260 in Shane's World later on today.

Jools

I think it is only the Loricariids with spoon shaped teeth that "eat" wood. So that would be Panaque, Panaqulous and Cochliodon. Or, to follow Armbruster, Panaque (excluding Scobinancistrus) and the most high backed Hypostomus. I think a lot of plecos appear to "like" wood as it ...

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