Discovery Channel - Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa)

[ryanpdoyle]

Hi PlanetCatfish community,

My name is Ryan Doyle and I am writing from Pangolin Pictures in New York. We are a documentary production company producing a show for the Discovery Channel currently titled "Nasty By Nature". The show takes a look at all sorts of creatures that must do "nasty" things in order to survive.

For one segment, we are going to be looking at the amazonian catfish species Vandellia cirrhosa, more commonly known as the "Candiru", "Canero", or "the Vampire fish".

I am trying to compile information on specifically where to find Vandellia cirrhosa and I am especially looking for anyone who knows where to find captive cirrhosa. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks very much for your time,

Ryan Doyle
Pangolin Pictures
1650 Broadway, Suite 1208
New York, NY 10019
T: 212-245-4242
F: 212-245-4290
[email protected]

[Richard B]

Hi Ryan & welcome to the site

Vandellia cirrhosa

- if you click the name it takes you to the species page where there are only 2 listed keepers of this species. You could drop them a PM to ask about their fish. I believe this species is extremely difficult to maintain in captivity due to it's feeding habits & the ethic of providing a live "victim" which will clearly suffer

[MatsP]

You may also want to read Stephen Spotte's book "Candiru". ISBN 0887394698.

From what I can read, they aren't quite as bad as they are rumoured to be.

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Mats

[sidguppy]

people are, though....

no amount of reading can wipe off the images from the inside of my eyeballs when I read a bit of email from practicalfishkeeping.co.uk.......

some total idiot shoved a live eel up his bum and ended up in hospital with a perforated colon

i'm not making this up, really
there's pictures for those who -like me- want to end up trying deperately to forget something they could happily live without knowing

argh

another person (a kid), jammed a betta up his penis and kept up the story that he dropped it during urinating and somehow it swam against the current into his bladder

more pix, and another thing I'd wish i'd stayed ignorant of.


curiosity can kill the cat, it can also make a person wish for a blunt spoon to scrape out the eyeballs

i'd choose Vandellia's over some people any day of the week!

holy cow

[MatsP]

Sidguppy,

You bring out the not so best (in) people sometimes ;)

Some people are simply plain dumb (the use of mind-altering drugs may well be a factor in some of these cases). There is absolutely no doubt about that!

I may struggle to get some of those (mental) images out of my mind too!

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Mats

[nvcichlids]

wow, I do have to agree with Mats ... lol

[sidguppy]

heh

the only thing I do is make you peeps aware of stuff other people do

continuing in that vein; there is NOTHING that people cook up wich surprises me anymore
even the most sick or twisted things I can imagine...
there are people actually doing it, or a lot worse.

usually a lot worse.

and between us; a long time ago I've been a naughty boy
I tell you this; even mind altering drugs cannot make a normal person invent sick shit like this......

I did the Fear & Loathing Hunter S Thompson ride, but it takes a really twisted diseased mind and a crazy utterly beyond any repair person to think stuff like that and act on it

no amount of cactus, acid or shrooms will ever make someone do such things. it has to be in there, between the ears, already.

some people are beyond belief.

[Deb]

To the OP, Ryan:

Planet Catfish member Brooklamprey, listed as one of the owners of Candiru, is Richard Kik or Rkik, one of the moderators of the website, FishGeeks.com.
Look here to see his stats:
http://www.aquaria.info/index.php?name= ... ic&t=13084

I remember when he obtained the Candiru after many years of trying. His story about that is somewhere on the Fishgeeks website. If you contact him through Fishgeeks he will no doubt want to talk to you as he is a talker.

Hope you are able to get the information you seek.

Deb

[apistomaster]

Hi Sidguppy,
As a fellow graduate of the Hunter S. Thompson School for the Transiently Crazed, I agree with you completely.
The truly twisted do what they will whether or not recreational molecules are involved.
The depths of depravity were merely superficially explored by the Maquis de Sade.
Reality is always much stranger than fiction.