Maybe ?

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Now, I've seen bubbles rise, but I've always thought they were burps, not farts (released from the attic, not the basement, so to speak). I thought the fish gulped air and swallowed it into their swim bladders for gas exchange (although this gives me pause - do corys have swim bladders connected to ...

Plaul, S. E., Pastor, R., Díaz, A. O. & Barbeito, C. G. 2016. Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural evidence of functional organization along the Corydoras paleatus intestine. Microsc. Res. Tech., 79 , 140–148. doi: 10.1002/jemt.22614 ABSTRACT The Neotropical catfish, Corydoras paleatus (Call...

Keep going!

In this case yes. :-D. Actually, if you read through some older threads, you discover that I'm usually a devout lumper (esp. when it comes to similar L- and C-numbers being considered as unique)! LOL Hey, why is the lumper depicted as overweight and the splitter gaunt? That seems judgmental! And is ...

Thanks for the explanation, Jools. No, it's not a problem, just a surprise.

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Hi Victor, Thanks for the extra info. I know literally nothing about these guys besides what I've seen and read on this site. Indeed they do look very similar (and @smitty, to answer your question, yes the coloration does change with age and size), so maybe the parent lineage is the same. But in the...

Hi Victor, I entered that hybrid as a new hybrid, because the info associated with the photo called hybrid(5) is Leiarius marmoratus x P. fasciatum , whereas hybrid(4) is supposedly Leiarius x P. tigrinum . Would you expect the hybrids to look much different starting with fasciatum instead of tigrin...

Yes that is a close. Also, I'm curious - Why does the CLOG link for Parauchenipterus galeatus redirect to the AquaticRepublic CLOG page instead of the PlanetCatfish CLOG page? (and in case you're wondering why I didn't correct the scientific name to Trachelyopterus galeatus , it was because I was qu...

Friedrich Ladich. 2016. Peripheral Hearing Structures in Fishes: Diversity and Sensitivity of Catfishes and Cichlids. In, Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics, 877 , of the series Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology , pp. 321-340. DOI:DOI10.1007/978-3-319-21059-9_15 ABSTRACT Fishes have evolved ...

Since this isn't specifically a catfish research paper, I won't place it in the Taxonomy & Science News forum. SInce it's about local people, the Travellers note book forum seems most appropriate. Carlos Alberto Batista Santos & Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves. 2016. Ethnoichthyology of the indig...

Unviable eggs will turn off color. If you have some Ramshorn snails, now is the time to add them to your eggs in the egg container/basket. :-) And don't worry so much about the egg rejection. Remember, your dad is a relatively new dad and he's going to screw up with his early broods. There are only ...

Independent of the issue of bioload, I'm concerned about quarantining new fish. Do you have that worked out?

Hi All, I have a community tank with several cory spp.: bronze Corydoras aeneus , Corydoras trilineatus , C141 , Corydoras ambiacus , and a lone female Scleromystax barbatus . I've never caught my ambiacus showing even the slightest courtship interest or behavior. My C141 spawned once before in a sp...

I have a number of other groups, which I have not been able to get to spawn, so I am wondering what others have done. Currently trying to trigger spawns in cw10, cw52, Corydorus rabauti,Corydoras arcuatus,Corydoras leucomelas, and Corydoras ambiacus. Any pointers on what has worked for others would...

Thanks Dave. I included the link to WetSpot's Aquabid page, but I failed to include their direct link.

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If you'll accept small juveniles, you can buy them from WetSpot Tropical Fish in Portland, Oregon: http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/ ... 1456343340

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Hi All, Yes, after getting the name bladderwort I came to the same conclusion (at least to genus, :-)). I suppose the only downside to it in an aquarium is that it would consume some of microscopic organisms that would be good infusoria for juveniles. Otherwise, it seems harmless enough. Thanks ever...

Yes I think you're right. If I google bladderwort aquarium, I see photos of it.

Thanks, Eric

Hi Teresa,

The parents can safely be kept with the babies. No need to rehome either. I fed my babies what I fed the parents.

Cheers, Eric

Hi All, I have a fine stringy plant growing among my Java moss. It looks like a fine pale green string, branched along its length, with small pale green balls on its side branches. I don't know if the balls are reproductive structures (that's what I think they are) or leaves. Can anyone ID it for me...

I agree with all of the above. I keep a huge mass of java moss (and some stringy plant that I don't recognize) in my baby bristlenose tank. They don't eat it, but they hide in it, and I figure it helps (but only a little) with water quality.

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Your plan sounds okay - check the "tank" for expelled eggs. Of course it's okay to peek in to tube from time to time, but there is risk to that. If you stress the dad he might eject his eggs from the cave. But just looking around the tank is obviously less invasive than looking straight in...

Hooray! Congratulations, Teresa.

Belive it or not, I think the best approach is to not intrude, leave dad in peace.

Cheers, Eric

johnnyfen wrote:They were died

I'm very sorry to learn this. I hope you have better luck next time. Keep trying and enjoy your fish.

Cheers, Eric

The 3-cave textured wall unit is being put to good use: Both a mustard spot and one of my un-ID'd Hypans have simultaneously taken up residence. Now if my mustard spots would just get around to some hanky-panky.

Cheers, Eric

josh7 wrote:I currently have a featured in who will be moving into my 125 in June when I get it

I presume you mean "feather fin." Sometimes autocorrect and word completion are not our friends.

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... Now I'm scrambling my brain to think of another vegetable - music band name pun to keep this going. But then, that'd drag me away from the intended post, so it's just as well that I don't have a reply for now. Back to pleco diets and these black eyed peas as a food option. LOL

Has anyone fed edamame beans (in hull or dehulled) to their plecos? Do the plecos like them? Another bean question: Has anybody tried black-eyed peas (BEPs; also called black-eyed beans)? I bought some frozen BEPs and boiled them for 20 min, then dropped them in my ABN tanks. I pinched the BEPs fir...