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Hi! Everyone
I really love all catfishes from around the world especially very rare and very interesting catfishes, and the Brochis Britskii is the one that I really love, and really crazy about. Thus, I really want to know all the informations about Brochis Britskii. I really want to know how to take good care of them and how to breed them. Oh! And, Where can I buy the WILD CAUGHT Brochis Britskii also. I live in San Antonio, Texas. Please! help me. It will be greatly appreciated. Thank You Very Much !!!!

Bunthid or Max

Welcome to Planet Catfish.

There's some information in the Cat-eLog, but admittedly not a WHOLE LOT. .

You can find some information on Brochis in general by reading the breeding articles on in the Cat-eLog.

You would probably also find a bit on them by doing a search in the forum for Brochis Britskii.

From what I understand, any Brochis Britskii for sale is 99% certain to be wild-caught, as they are not commercially bred in captivity. This is also the reason that they are about 2-3x the price of Brochis Splendens that are bred in Singapore/Malaysia etc.

There's some good info in this thread.


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Mats

Hello,

there isn't very much information in the net on B.britskii. Its very rare in the pet shops. I got 3 of them about 4 weeks ago, the last 4 ones past by on saturday.

Here some pics of mine (in the pet shop) made by a friend:




My first experience: although ist looks a little bit "plump" it is a very active species. Its acts a little bit like B.multiradiatus, they school together in the tank, also somethimes free swimming without any contact to the bottom. Not as "nervous" as the much smaller B.splendens.

I can't share the low temperaturas given in the catelog and the literature: they get dark and passive at 20°C, I suggest 22 to 24°C as mimimum temperature.
Probably this is also a bit dependent on where they come from, they are also importet form Madre de Dios in Peru, this might be slightly warmer than Rio Paraguay.
Easier to feed as the multiradiatus, takes everything as other corys.
Next week they will pass over in a 450l tank together with 7 B.multiradiatus. We'll see how that works !

edit:
size on foto: about 8,5 to 9cm TL, those got on Saturday slightly larger (9-10cm TL), but no actual pic up to now.

Hello again,

food from wild caught specimen see here, also some othe catfish as Callichtys, Hoplostermum, Brochis Pimelodella and others:

http://www.cpap.embrapa.br/publicacoes/online/BP17

Although text is not readible for many if us, the tables speak more or less for themselves.

There are some on Aquabid right now...

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/ ... 1128573525

Joern

I have a group of five that the LFS had labelled B. bristkii. After getting them home, I looked closer and counted 12-13 dorsal fin rays, the same as your fish. This count matches not .

In Ian's new book, he has pics of B. splendens collected at different locales. I'm sure he will chime in on this topic!

Max

I haven't seen B. britskii for a few/several years.

Hi Dave,

your right, these individuals do not have 15 or more spines in the dorsal fin...most have 14. But they aren't B.splendens, which are present in my tanks to.
These individuals are imported via "aqua-global" near berlin, where Ingo Seidel works. So I hope, they sell it right

So in the moment these ones should be better called B. "cf." bristki.

As I can't contact Hans Evers (he is still looking for corys in the wild), it would be interesting to hear, what Ian thinks about theses guys.

Here is another picture:
http://www.l-welse.com/forum/showpost.p ... stcount=59, but not as good as the others. Hopefully non-members can see it.

I could read that post on the l-welse forum, but as I tried to view the picture it asks for username/password.

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Mats

Hello,
Is this better ?
http://www.aquariumforum.de/galerie/sho ... /2/cat/500

Hello,

here are pics from the "second series", the 4 ones I got a few days ago, slightly larger than the first ones.
Pictures made by Ralf Rombach before selling them to me:

All the pictures above to me are of either B. splendens or possible undescribed species similar to B. splendens, the first one looks like a species found in eastern Bolivia. There are three other possibly new species masquerading under the name B. splendens, but we will have to wait for science to sort them out.

The dorsal fin ray count to a degree is a dead give away, there are between 15-18 branched dorsal ray in B. britskii and 8-12 in B. splendens, below is a picture of B. britskii

Ian

I almost forgot a crucial point, which is that unlike B. splendens or B. multiradiatus, B . britskii has a bony shield that completely covers the underside of the head.

Ian

Hello,

The first group probably has this shield.
Where do I find a picture of this shield how it should look like ?
Has somebody a link ? Thanks.