All posts regarding the care and breeding of these catfishes from South America.
Tommi
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by Tommi » 07 Aug 2012, 07:58
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by Suckermouth » 07 Aug 2012, 08:23
I'm skeptical those are Panaque fry. Are there any other loricariids with them? All the tiny Panaque I've seen (wild caught) actually look reasonably like Panaque with their characteristic proportions.
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by panaque » 07 Aug 2012, 13:33
The babies look like
fry to me. Look at the shape of the tail fin for example.
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by Tommi » 07 Aug 2012, 18:36
Thank you all for answers. I have not seen Panaque fry but I though those are super rare so I was suspicious from the start.
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by jamos » 07 Aug 2012, 22:06
The Panaque looks like P. schaeferi. This is a very large panaque and there is no way it could have had fry at the current size.
What else is in the tank with them?
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by jac » 09 Aug 2012, 16:38
If you look closely at the second picture, there is a fry stuck on the glass next to the Panaque. It clearly shows a mouth/ teeth of an Ancistrus
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by rob rensen » 10 Aug 2012, 19:21
jac wrote: If you look closely at the second picture, there is a fry stuck on the glass next to the Panaque. It clearly shows a mouth/ teeth of an Ancistrus
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