T. sp. guyana: let's have some more

[Marc van Arc]

When we planned our LFS trip to Germany some days ago, we said we'd go to Witten and several shops in Köln (I think it's Cologne for the English speaking world).
However, we didn't include any traffic jams but there were plenty of them. So we didn't reach Cologne at all.
More than three years ago I bought 4 specimen of

Trachelyopterus sp. 'guyana'

at Witten.
Two of them disappeared (read: died) pretty quickly; the remaining two were transfered to a smaller and quieter
tank.
I've visited Witten (owned by Mr. Blecha) twice in between and both times I saw the remaining specimen hidden into a piece of wood. The price didn't change over the years and the same goes for the interest in these little Auchenipterids.
So today I decided to buy all the remaining specimen. I thought they deserved a proper tank after all those years in an LFS tank.
Out came 6 specimen (I had counted 5 tails from the wood) and to my surprise they had grown significantly.
I hope that this group contains a few females (the 2 I already had are males) and that I may be able to breed this still very unknown (even to science) species.
Here are some pictures.

Already in the tank in a typical pose:


Just before putting them in the tank. Not the curled and spiked pectoral spines:


Briefly out in the open to show it's not just black:


"At last he gets us out of that sack and now we've been put into a bucket. What kind of fool has bought us"??

[Bas Pels]

Congratulations. Couldf you pm me the adrress or so? Never heard of this shop

[Marc van Arc]

http://www.blecha.de

There aren't any Auchenipterids left, but this is an LFS we have been visiting during the last 20 odd years and nearly always we brought something home from it.

[Marc van Arc]

BTW: you could easily combine a visit to Zajac and Blecha. Duisburg and Witten (near Dortmund) are not far apart.

[Bas Pels]

To me Zoo Zajac is just an appetiser for Tillmann Hobbyzoo (http://www.hobbyzoo-tillmann.de/), who specialises in American Cich lids, and has every now and then an odd, large, catfish

Tanks for the link

[Marc van Arc]

Consider yourself lucky. I'm getting more and more convinced that I have to be in the UK for my favourite fishes....
Too bad there's some water in between; that certainly prevents me from going more often.