Posted: 29 Aug 2003, 21:49
From the Cat-E Log entry for this fish:
(*Breeding: A mouthbrooder, the few, amazingly large eggs are incubated by the male. This feat has yet to be replicated in the aquarium not least because the animal has a down river migratory pattern, difficult to emulate in the aquarium which would have to be spacious in the first place.)
This is actually incorrect, these fish have been spawned in the aquarium. A pair was spawned in about 1996-'97 timeframe in a 75 gallon tank. The Iowa Aquarist who accomplished this task gradually shifted the water chemistry from fully Marine to Fresh and back over a twelve month period of time.
She actually interrupted a conversation Ginny Eckstein and I were having at a Minnesota AS fish show to ask " How long is the incubation period for an Ariidae catfish. I have a male holding for the past 10 days". Needless to say, we dropped whatever it was that we were talking about at the time.
Unfortunately, I didn't catch her name (Ginny did) and do not know if it was documented in any other way. Sure made for an interesting conversation though!
Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley
(*Breeding: A mouthbrooder, the few, amazingly large eggs are incubated by the male. This feat has yet to be replicated in the aquarium not least because the animal has a down river migratory pattern, difficult to emulate in the aquarium which would have to be spacious in the first place.)
This is actually incorrect, these fish have been spawned in the aquarium. A pair was spawned in about 1996-'97 timeframe in a 75 gallon tank. The Iowa Aquarist who accomplished this task gradually shifted the water chemistry from fully Marine to Fresh and back over a twelve month period of time.
She actually interrupted a conversation Ginny Eckstein and I were having at a Minnesota AS fish show to ask " How long is the incubation period for an Ariidae catfish. I have a male holding for the past 10 days". Needless to say, we dropped whatever it was that we were talking about at the time.
Unfortunately, I didn't catch her name (Ginny did) and do not know if it was documented in any other way. Sure made for an interesting conversation though!
Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley