@ Bas Pels
I’m not going for the big money, following your perspective. The small amount is OK with me. Although some luxury’s like owning a car would be nice.

@ panaque
Thanks for your positive story, it’s inspirational. It sound seems to be a career I like to pursue. Btw your “essay” isn’t to ...

Interesting post. It really made me think things through.

There are other things to bear in mind too. Do you want a career out of ecology, or do you just want to study because you are interested?
I want a career out of ecology. I want to build my life around working with and (partly) in nature ...

The above gives me something to think about. I'm letting the idea of the US/PhD option sink in. I discarded the US as an country to study option quite early. If I am honest, the country scares me a little. But it sounds as an option worth looking into.

I have a examn in 2 days, so I focus on ...

@ Silurus:
A PhD is something I most likely would like to do. In my country (The Netherlands) it's only possible to do a PhD after you obtain a Masters degree. Here a Bachelors degree is considered only proof that you finished the first three years of your university education, not a thing of value ...

I would like to ask you guys for help!

Next summer I finally finish my bachelor study at Wageningen University. That means that in half a year I'll start my master. The problem is I don't know what master to study. I have been searching for quite a while now without much success, so I decided that ...

Cool!

I thought that, in China, saving the panda from extinction was a matter of national pride, and therefore a high priority.

There's a case for letting the cheetah go extinct. They are inbred to the point where it impairs their fertility, due to a genetic bottleneck sometime in the past.
You have ...

Wow they have some nice fishes on that list! :)

ps. Bas, do you know a good (not to expensive) way to probably get some nice rare fish form that list to somewhere in the Netherlands? Ordering 3 boxes with fish is a bit above my budget, besides, in cant house the few hundred fish that would come in ...

The black beast is stunning
It's like...
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so...
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so black!

Like totaly black.
Like black kind of black.
Like WOW!! THAT'S black!!

It's the 'I want a bigger room with a bigger aquarium with those in it, NOW!' kind of black!

I did mention I like the beast did'nt I?!

Indeed, these fish are not for the not so wealty. This tread: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =4&t=26537
Shows how one should keep this kind of fish. It's a pleasure just watching it on video!

A standard 150g tank is 72x18x24 - which according to the standard of 4L x 2L x 2L is good for a fish up to about 9" - maybe you can stretch it to 12" for a very docile fish (e.g. a single large pl*co).

I'm glad it spit out the planter.

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Mats
Sorry if I am making some fuss, but to me ...

4 feet = 120cm right? (You really should try the metric system like the rest of the world, and for that matter, driving right tongue1 )
Even for a 30cm pleco that (120x60x60cm) would be way to small in my book. I would keep a clownloach in at least a 300x90x60cm, but if you increase the hight a bit ...

29g, thats like 100 liters, or something like that, right?
Thats way to small for a group of clown loaches (if that is what you are meaning by clown) they will grow to 30cm (thats like 12 inches I thought) so a good tank size for them would be like a 750g tank, not a 29.

What I would realy, realy, realy want for Christmas, are some wildcaught (or F1, F2 for that matter) Apistogramma cacatuoides from the Rio Ucayali (drainage)! :roll:

And then I would hope they would look as beautiful as these wildcaught (F1) caca's:
http://www.jdburgessonline.com/fish/images ...

It is often quoted to have a footprint that is 4 times the length of an adult fish by twice the length of the adult fish as an acceptable minimum.

That sound rather small to me...

The thumb-rule I learned and use for normal (read: small) fish is 10 times the adult fish length should be the ...

Nice fish!

I would change the substrate you keep them on to sand. Cory's like sand very much and that mix of big rounded en pointy gravel isn't a very good substrate if you want them to stay healty and have nice long barbels.

It is working with me now

Now I have the picture at the top left corner, in the black thing with the 3 catfishes. That picture is working.
The picture is also where it should be. But that picture is not working.

Doesn't work for me either.

I experiance it to, its quiet annoying.
I hope this is fixed soon, cause it takes more time now to find factsheets!

Sandor, Erlend and Bas, thank you for your answers and explanations! :thumbsup:

Now I know what species it most likely are and which they are not. In some (2-24) months I might need your help again, when I sold these fish and do another atemped to buy a group of Rio Ucayali Loricaridae!

Thanks ...

Hmm...

That spotted head thing does indeed sapperate my fish from the L205.
Sadly.
But clearly.

By the L387 there is no photo of a belly. What does there belly look like?
And last but not least, should my fish be L147 (which they most likely are) will there tails become more and more spotted ...

Yeah if it really are L147 I am not so happy. They get a bit to big for my tank (imho) and they totaly dont fit in my Rio Ucayali Biotoop. :(

That's why I am a bit reluctant to just accept that they are L147. Can you explain to me why you think it are L147's and not L205's?

I dont know if all my ...

A few weeks ago I bought 5 fish under the name of L206. Dutchfry told me on a Dutch forum that it where not the Panaque's I wanted to buy, but that it where Pleckoltia. He thought it where L205, or L147. Perhaps you can give your thoughts about these fish. It would be nice end up being sure that it ...

I am thinking of selling my Iridescent shark, they are about 12-13" long. whats a resonable price to sale this?

I think you can be very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very happy if you can find someone who can house those tankbusters properly. If you find such a person I would be more then ...

I totaly agree.
Cory's should at least be with 6. More is better. If you have enough room I would take 10-12 of 1 spiecie of Corydoras. It is the best for the Corydoras if you have a sand bottem, otherwise you should have rounded small gravel. Gravel with sharp edges my cut of the Corydoras barbels ...

Does this shop have a website?