Depends on what kind of Danios you have. Some, like <i>D. albolineatus</i>, actually live in relatively swift-flowing streams. However, if you've got regular zebra danios (which BTW are NOT <i>Brachydanio rerio</i>), you'll see them turn into gold and blue "leaves" blowing all over your ta...

This is a follow up post to the previous topic. Just want to pick the collective brains of the wonderful people in this forum. What would be a good title for the Asian catfish book ? I was thinking "Southeast Asian Catfish for the Advanced Hobbyist", but somehow it comes out sounding like ...

At Dinyar's suggestion, I split this off from the "New catfish book due in May 2003" posting in the Speak Easy Forum as the thread was starting to go off on a tangent and subsequent postings would be more relevant here. Still waiting to hear from you asian cat fans out there about the viab...

This should answer all your questions:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/cotm/1999-10.htm

As far as I can ascertain, the largest size on record for <i>Silurus glanis</i> is 4.9 meters (the fish weighed about 300 kilograms).

Dinyar and Yann, Centrifugal pumps are the regular pumps we know and use (powerheads, in internal filters, etc.). These are the ones that use an impeller for the pumping action, as opposed to the more complex positive displacement pumps, which use either a diaphragm or a flexible tube. Here's a grea...

Hey robotron, Join the gang! Dinyar and I are looking for enough people interested in <i>Chiloglanis</i> to get an importer in Louisiana to bring in some (he even said he'll try getting <i>Euchilichthys</i>, and we're keeping our fingers sooo very crossed). We'll add you to the list.

Well, my primary concern with making it an Asian catfish book is how poorly represented Chinese catfish species are in the aquarium trade.
I am also not confident of identifying many Indian cats as their taxonomy in many cases is one huge horrible mess.

Shane, Cool. Can't wait to hit the streams. It's been a long time (too long) since I was last out in the field, getting bit by insects, stung by catfish, sucked on by leeches. On a more forum-related topic, I was wondering how you would feel if I asked forum members with experience in Asian cats to ...

Dinyar and others,

There is a subsequent paper(s) (may have been two more) on this subject after the one you quoted. Anyone interested can email me for a copy.

I wonder what will happen if an accident involving a clumsy janitor and a misplaced mop handle were to happen....
Think of the mess and the tragedy.

Most of the reports of large catfish swallowing children/large mammals have an even smaller factual basis than those of candirus entering human orifices.
Presumably, some of these reports might be based on these large catfishes swallowing carcasses of drowned animals.

Achim and others, The general feeling I get from the forum is that there may be enough of you out there actually interested in an Asian catfish book (or at least one in which the identifications would be as accurate as possible). I'm thinking of resurrecting the stalled catfish book project and poss...

Actually, the dorsal fin is too short to be <i>C. nigrodigitatus</i> (which has a much taller fin).
There's a fact sheet for this on http://www.scotcat.com.

I noticed that the German aquarium literature circle has an inordinate fondness for loricariids and callichthyids (they also slightly favor large pims). Don't think there'll be a book by them out on African/Asian cats soon, given the fact that they don't ever seem to be done with the groups I just m...

Nope, these are myths (probably to scare the daylights out of people going for a dip). The largest animals found to have been eaten by wels are water voles (even this needs to be substantiated), and I highly doubt that they are capable of attacking and eating swimming dogs (as some stories would hav...

Actually, it may have been <i>D. depressus</i>. Not too sure about the id. Looks like a regular banjo (<i>B. coracoideus</i>), except that the body (but not the caudal peduncle) is much shorter and more slender, the eyes are closer together and the coloration is much lighter (a rich medium brown). F...

I have a <i>B. verrucosus</i>, and it's only a little tad more active than the <i>B. coracoideus</i> and the <i>Dysichthys quadriradiatus</i> it shares the tank with. Although it is the only banjo cat that would actually move during feeding time, I still don't see it come out as often as I would lik...

This will give you some idea:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_FA010

I don't think you can breed channel cats unless you have a very large aquarium or a pond, because they are fairly large by the time they are sexually mature. They are bred commercially for food in ponds anyway, so why would you want to do it in your aquarium ?

Here's a zamora cat:

And here's a channel cat:

HTH

The only problem is that none of what is referred to as <i>P. leopardus</i> in the aquarium trade is actually sympatric with the real leopardus, unless some of these fish actually come from Surinam/Guyana.

There are no catfish native to the British Isles. Wels (<i>Silurus glanis</i>) was introduced to Britain from Europe in the 1860s, while the Miller's Thumb (<i>Cottus gobio</i>) or Bullhead (not to be confused with the North American catfish) is not a catfish at all. Cottids (sculpins) are a predomi...

The picture in the original description shows a fish with a pattern of medium-sized spots on the head and a reticulated pattern on the body (kind of like in photo 1, except that the spots coalesce into reticulations). The dorsal and anal fins also have this reticulated pattern, and the pelvic fins h...

It doesn't look like a <i>Cochliodon</i> to me, as they tend to have deeper bodies.
You can try using Jon Armbruster's loricariid key at http://george.cosam.auburn.edu/usr/key_ ... e/key.html for identification.

When in doubt, consult the original description....
Right, it ISN'T <i>C. steindachneri</i>. The head of <i>C. steindachneri</i> is more rounded.
So this is another one of those travesties being bred.

What is commonly called <i>Mystus armatus</i>(an Indian species) in the aquarium trade is actually <i>M. castaneus</i> (a Southeast Asian species).

Looks like a somewhat pale <i>C. steindachneri</i> to me. And a male at that.
Then again, with all the weird stuff they're doing to <i>Corydoras</i> nowadays, it might well be a long-finned paleatus (if such a thing exists).

Looks more like <i>Chrysichthys brevibarbis</i> to me. I noticed that the fish in the third photo does not appear to be the same species as the others. Cattiex, do you have more than one catfish in the tank?

There are unsubstantiated claims that the enlarged teeth are used for digging snails out of their shells.