My L397 breed year round, but they are definitely seasonal in terms of the intensity of breeding. I get more spawns in mid to late summer than I do from October - March.

Your water parameters sound wonderful! What's your pH?

Cheers,
Eric

Others will be able to add better info, but L052 is noticeably 'flatter' and not as full-bodied; the eyes are larger (in comparison to the head) and located closer to the top of the skull, fin shapes and placement are slightly different, and as you noted the pattern is much more "muted", ...

The Amblydoras nauticus spawned again, this time while I was away this last weekend at the NEC annual convention. I collected 186 unhatched eggs, hatching eggs and hatched fry. Given that the fry are hatching today and that I did a big water change last Thursday (and there were no eggs Friday mornin...

Faustino-Fuster, D.R., López-castaño, J.A., Quiñones, J.M. & V. Meza-Vargas. (2024). Increasing the species diversity of the monotypic genus Pariolius Cope 1872 (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) after more than 150 years. Zootaxa , 5433 (3): 389-403 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.3.6 https://...

Fallen_Leaves16 wrote: ↑08 Apr 2024, 13:51That almost looks like L052... any chance there was a mix-up?

Good catch! Not "almost"... "is" .

Cheers,
Eric

Just got home late Sunday from the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies-NEC annual convention. Didn't buy any fish this weekend, but I did come home to find eggs in the Auchenipterichthys coracoideus tank. So they spawned either Friday, Saturday or Sunday, probably not Sunday since the eggs don't...

Hi kiwidu21, I can't speak for what species are imported to France, but in the USA, true Corydoras(ln5) nanus is almost never imported. The fish we get which looks similar to C. nanus, is Corydoras(ln5) cf_elegans . Stores sell it as C. nanus or as the "San Juan" cory. It is collected in a...

Pimelodella guato Pierre V, Slobodian V. A new species of Pimelodella (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the Paraguai basin, Brazil, with a discussion regarding its distribution. Neotrop Ichthyol. 2024; 22(1):e230110. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0110 Abstract A new species of Pimelodella...

Panda corys are known for their hedonistic indulgences with members of other cory species.

For more examples, use this search link: https://www.google.com/search?q=panda+c ... wtopic.php

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I was sick last week and mostly neglected my fish. This morning I discovered hatched Amblydoras nauticus loose in the parents' tank. It will be difficult to collect them now that they are free swimming. Given today's date, I'd estimate the spawn was around 29 March.

Kowalski, S., Haerter, C.A.G., Perin, D.P., Takagui, F.H., Viana, P.F., Feldberg, E., Blanco, D.R., Traldi, J.B., Giuliano-Caetano, L. and Lui, R.L., 2024. Karyotypic characterization of Centromochlus schultzi Rössel 1962 (Auchenipteridae, Centromochlinae) from the Xingu River basin: New inferences ...

Is it possible to breed an average size corydoras, around 5cm, in a 35x25x20cm aquarium? In the USA, that's just a little smaller than a 5 gallon aquarium. In my opinion (and it is just that - an opinion), I would say that if you're being thoughtful about the social welfare of your fish (that is, k...

Looks like a hybrid of long fin Corydoras panda and Corydoras sterbai. Do you have those in the tank?

Cheers,
Eric

naturalart wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024, 00:49Not to jump this thread, but Eric, when will you have more to sell? Maybe PM me?

Sorry to say I won't have more until they breed, darn it. They are trying my patience.

Cheers,
Eric

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Huh, that's pretty interesting... Are the eggs and fry proportionally smaller, and do they have decent hatch rates (if they hatch at all)? I still can't get over how small these guys are; would make for a great pleco for a smaller tank, if it was merely a harmless genetic mutation (which I'm guessi...

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Hi Jools,

When I visit families, subfamilies and individual CLOG pages, I'm getting this message as a pop-up window:

arn_multimap ERR005: Exception e:TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'textContent')

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Eric

Liobagrus kingi Li, Wei, & X.-Y. Jia. (2024). Isolation and characterization of 35 SNP markers of Leiobagrus kingi (Teleostei, Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae). Conservation Genetics Resources : 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-024-01349-3 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12686-024-01...

New spawn today while I was at work. It's rare for me to find woodcats spawning in daytime. I wish I were home to record it one of these days. 10 January - about 42 good eggs collected 8 day interval 18 January - about 160 good eggs collected 8 day interval 26 January - egg count not recorded :( 10 ...

Hi, I've got a group of wabenmuster, all from the same breeder, maybe from the same spawn (they were about the same size when purchased, but may have been from separate spawns close together). Two of my males are huge, well over 10 cm SL. But two of my males are small like yours, about 6 cm SL. I've...

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Yes, this is .

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Eric

Hi Sean,

Glad your animals did well. Yes, all 14 of the baby whiptails I got survived and are doing well in my tank.

Cheers, Eric

(Abstract from presentation) NOTE: Based on stated catch locations, the P. bufonius and R. pulcher described here are Pseudopimelodus aff_bufonius and Rhyacoglanis sp`upper_rio_xingu` dos Santos, L.L., Birindelli, J.L., Jerep, F.C., Shibatta, O.A. and C.H. Zawadzki. (2024). First records of poisonin...

So, is the idea that the eggs will fall into the glass dish? Yes, there's a plastic "knitting canvas" mesh over the glass dish, with some fake plant stems and the spawning mop. Hopefully, if the fish are in the mood, they release eggs over the bowl and I catch them in the dish. Achim said...

Here's their tank setup. I settled on this after meeting Achim at the CSG meeting last week and he told me how he spawned in the early 2000's.

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I have three prashadi. Be careful moving them by hand. I've been stung twice @-) Thanks for the warning. Yeah, other people have told me the same. When I was loading these for transport, I dropped two on the floor and had to pick them up to get them back into bottles. Rather than grabbing them with...

Shane wrote: ↑23 Mar 2024, 19:20 You and your cryptic catfishes!
-Shane

P.S., when you buy a group of fish, don't you also spend hours staring at them, noticing every little detail and variation?

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You and your cryptic catfishes! ;-) -Shane Lol. I guess I'm too untrusting of exporter/importer IDs. 🤣 I imagine the tail pattern differences might be normal variation but might also be exaggerated by how widespread the fish hold their tails when I photograph them. 20240323_171743~2.jpg Having said...