Thanks Haakon, well if nothing else I do have patience. I'll just sit back and watch them grow (or not) they are in a 6x2x2 so they have ample room. Currently sitting around the 3.5 inch mark.

Good afternoon ladies and gents, Noting the amount of variation in patterns,is there any way (other than capture location) to differentiate between L243 and Peckoltia lineola . I have a group I purchased from a shop closing down sale that simply had them labelled as "ornate bristlenose" :-?? I ...

Would have loved to get me, but postage to Australia is more than the book itself.

People who flush fish for whatever reason need a good smack in the head. Good job on the rescue mate.

Very nice! We have had it with L333 and L201 here in Australia I believe.

That would be great thanks Jools, may as well have all the various terms for the same thing linked in.

Thanks mate

Once again the naming difference of things between countries and continents causes another thread. I'll run some searches with the info you have given me and see how I go.

Thanks for the fast reply too.

Happy New Years one and all. Well with a new year I have decided to look into my entire fish room process. I have sold off my 54 tanks I was running using wet/dry sump style filtration and am looking into more cost effective ways of running a more sedate 20-30 tanks. To this effect I have been ...

Some of those photos are very Cat-eLog worthy. Congrats on the spawn and congrats on the great photography.

I appreciate the idea of an ancistrus, but have a look at my cats list, I am confident ( as much as one can be without catching them personally) of what my catfish are.

Good evening ladies and gents, well I have been absent from the forums for a while working on all sorts of projects, and I have come back seeking some sagely advice. I have noticed on some of my Peckoltia species an odd feathery growth primarily on the head, near the nasal area. Any ideas on what it ...

The weather is warming up here, and that means the fishing is back on for me. I'll try to get some pics of my set up but here is what I am after this summer: http://www.fishingmonthly.com.au/app/webroot/img/uploads/00e23fdb208b003069034aa52910da4b_HindNaroo1210_1.jpg Had to pinch a pic as works dvd ...

I met a guy here who had a L204 tattoo on the top of his hand with the long filaments, it didnt look too bad.

Be careful with loaches though, they will eat snails for sure, but they will also force their way into spawning caves and eat eggs too if they can manage it.

I hate to say it mate, but many places here will add a fancy name to anything to increase sales, and all they do is rip off the customer and make the catfish world just that much more confusing. I would be taking both fish back and asking for a refund, since they were sold based on false information ...

Mate, can you post some more pics of the "Gibby" that looks like a longfin bn to me, and if it is a long fin go back and get your money back!

Some pics would be great before I travel down there, as has been stated shops will often advertise by a name they have come across either on purpose to improve sales or by accident if uninformed.

You can replicate the natural environment with out having to use this soil. (I am assuming thats your line of thought).
Maybe share some more info on the breeding set up, water conditions, feeding regime etc and the massive amount of experience on this site should be able to help you out.

I had a female who used to breed who was only a little bigger than that SL, but I agree with Milton that it is probably a little small. Mine was also a rescue from a gold fish bowl ~X( so she was somewhat stunted. I never expected her to breed. Are you talking TL or SL? (just the body or the full ...

Have you lost any yet? Keep the food available but dont let it sit and make the water quality turn poor, I keep my fry concentrated in a fry saver so food is always near them rather than having to patrol an entire tank looking.
Good luck with them.

On a side note this annoys the crap out of me, I really am in the Navy, not the same one as this individual claims to be, which by the way is a federal offence in the US, to claim and not actually be a service member, and I have had to sell fish due to service reasons, and for someone to play on ...

Yep swoffing is saltwater flyfishing, well it is to me anyway. I have watched some guys here do insane things swoffing including tuna, dolphin fish (mahi mahi) and young bull sharks, best I have had was a 3ft long tom which acted like a mini-marlin, tail walking and backflipping all the way to the ...

Has anyone here done any swoffing?
I have had a crack and only ever come up with so so catches of some of our more temperate species.
This:
http://www.nafa.com.au/content/show/Fis ... 0June.html
is what I really want to have a crack at.

I am closing down a few tanks and to do this I have to sell my Pimelodus ornatus . Amazing fish that can be taught to eat out of your hand. This one is around 25-30cm so pretty much full grown. Fed on unsalted whitebait and nls 3mm pellets. Google for images. Pick up from central coast or will ...

Looks good, nice neat work, are you a little OCD by any chance?
What is going to call it home?

Mate, I have had L168/L052 do this exact same thing after many years of perfect health and multiple spawnings. No matter what I have tried once they started to get the protruding eyes I lost them. I have never had it with any juvies in the tank, it was always the fully mature ones, and never in a ...

Oh come on Jools, share......

Interesting, I also feed Thera A or the nls 3mm pellet, and my have gone from an inch and a half to 8 inches for one and 6 1/2 inches for the other in 19-20 months.

Looks like a sideline business to support Navy pay, and yes Jools has a truck load more patience then I would have.

I guess I am lucky where I live, I can fish in saltwater year round,but where I grew up we had a trout season but my favourite was to head away with my father,grandfather and uncles to fish for Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii for the ichthyologists out there), I will have a hunt about for some of ...