At last: Auchenipterichthys coracoideus

[Marc van Arc]

This is just to inform you that, after an absence of at least 10 years from any stocklist overhere, I was able to obtain some Auchenipterichthys coracoideus.
The last time I kept this species was in the 80's. I'm very pleased with yet another Auchenipteridae species (although I don't think I will ever equal the "collection" I used to have back then).

[snowball]

How many did you get? I had one of those back around that time too, great little fish to watch swimming around the tank at night, it even survived me stepping on it in bare feet

Come to think of it there were quite a few unusual woodcats also turning up in our part of the world back then. I particularly remember drooling over a small group of

Ageneiosus magoi

in one LFS, I've never seen them since.

[Marc van Arc]

I've got 6 adolescent specimen (5-6 cm), but it's still pretty hard to tell the sexes apart. I had to make some room for them, so although they were very cheap I swapped them against my 4 Trachydoras steindachneri.

it even survived me stepping on it in bare feet

But did your foot survive??

[sidguppy]

you swapped a very rare Dorad against Zamora-cats?

wow.

Auchenipterichthys coracoides is a very pretty fish alright, but still.....

but then my taste is more Dorads than Auchenipterids, not in the least because I enjoy seeing my fish.

I remember doing away with my 3 Zamora-cats when they never got out of their hidy hole anymore, despite feeding bloodworms or so. some Dorads are just as bad though.....once a bunch of hancocki's suffered the same fate.

hopefully the Zamora's will show now that you have a proper group

are they housed in the big tank or in one of the smaller tanks?

[apistomaster]

Hope one of you driftwood cat fans see my post about Tatia perugiae. By the way mine feed avidly when the lights are on so at least I get to enjoy them and they are an awfully pretty catfish. I am trying to breed them.

[Marc van Arc]

I've got 6 adolescent specimen (5-6 cm), but it's still pretty hard to tell the sexes apart.

On advice of pturley I've enlarged the group to 9 specimen and if I'm correct they should be 3 males and 6 females.