Synodontis lucipinnis group now SOLD, thank you.

Syndontis multipunctatus group still available.

Andrew

First group: Synodontis multipunctatus , 5 or 6 fish (2 female, balance male), had a few youngsters off them so far this year. Picked up a couple of years back and housed with a load of Mbuna for hosts (large adult pair Gephyrochromis lawsii , adult trio Pseudotropheus sp. Acei Yellowtail and 8 or 9 ...

Fish 7
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Fish 8
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Fish 5
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Fish 6
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Fish 3
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Fish 4
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Ok, some assistance in sexing these fish would be appreciated. I had to catch them to move them from their holding tank into their new home so took the opportunity to photograph all of them individually as well. There are 9 fish in total just now but I think (based on these) pictures they're not ...

Birger wrote:.........................
Is it your flash making more of the fins white than should be??

Birger

Yes, flash is overexposing the whites on these images. The settings used in these images work OK with cichlids but then again they don't have splashes of white on them!

Andrew

Evening Richard,

Can't remember how many I picked up, either 8 or 10 (same source, an additional blood line is being looked for) of them so hopefully a mix of sexes in the group.

Sounds like a project for tomorrow, catch and photograph them and with some help from this kind forum sex them (I've ...

As mentioned in my other thread along with my group of Synodontis multipunctata I'm also growing on a group of Synodontis lucipinnis as a future breeding project:

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Thanks Birger and Andy, S. multipunctata was what I had decided on as well!

I have some large adult mbuna in with them so if there was only a few youngsters being brooded it was probably quite easy to miss this stage!

Andrew

Working in the fish house a couple of weeks back and amongst a variety of jobs I syphoned some debris (and quite a few Malaysian trumpet snails) out of the first chamber of the sump.

Rather surprised on glancing in the bucket I'm syphoning into to see a couple of fish swimming round in there. Not ...

...........Let us know how your eggs do.

Evening Larry,

I had the pleasure of watching the eggs hatch on Tuesday morning and seeing the tiny fry sink to the substrate and then scuttle away (I think about 30 or 40). Looking in the tank over the past few days I see the occasional fry on the ...

I hope you plan to and succeed in getting them to breed. Your Aspidoras are a pretty species.
I have become fond of Aspidoras. They are a nice change from more familiar Corydoras spp.

Larry,

It took time but I finally moved a pair into their own tank on Friday, this evening I find a load of eggs ...

similiss wrote:I believe those are Aspidoras spilotus. I have this fish as well. Very active & swims lightning fast.

Perfect description of them, certainly a very active species. I have them in with some juvenile Apistograma barlowi just now, certainly is a lively tank

Andrew

I would say that you have A. spilotus, I base this on the central body pattern, which can be several large blotches or a broad band along the center and the caudal barring.

Ian

img]http://www.corydorasworld.com/var/news/storage/images/aspidoras/aspidoras_depinnai/423-2-eng-GB/aspidoras_depinnai ...

I hope this will appeal to some of the members here.



More info to follow as it becomes available.

Andrew

Evening all,

Collected today under the name Aspidoras depinnai , no collection location as they came from Singapore. Only reason for asking is that while discussing them in the shop it was mentioned that they thought the ID was possibly incorrect??

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To announce:

The British Cichlid Association Spring Convention 2008

To be held on Sunday 13th April 2008 at the Britannia Wigan Hotel, Standish, Wigan, UK.

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Paul Loiselle from the New York Aquarium and he will be giving 2 presentations, the first covering the Cichlids ...

Hi Mats,

If you are after a book for your own reference, I ordered the following 1 from Amazon.com (wasn't on the amazon.co.uk lists), not much mentioned about fish, but maps do get broken down with place names (not perfect, but best I found at the time):

The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon ...

Hi folks,

Also arrived from Peru today.

Listed as Sturisoma aureum from the Rio Nanay. Currently 60mm SL

I'm thinking they would be Sturisoma nigrirostrum thanks to the brown underside to the 'nose'.

http://www.biddulph.ndo.co.uk/web_pics/sturi_001.jpg
http://www.biddulph.ndo.co.uk/web_pics ...

Hi folks,

Arrived from Peru today.

Listed as Otocinclus 'Tiger' from the Rio Amazonas. Currently 30mm SL

I'm thinking they would be Otocinclus cocama

http://www.biddulph.ndo.co.uk/web_pics/oto_001.jpg
http://www.biddulph.ndo.co.uk/web_pics/oto_002.jpg
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Hi there,

Not sure if this is appropriate to the location quoted, but for the Corydoras:

Corydoras ellisae

Andrew

Hi there,

My first thought was Orange Seam (L076), body shape and colouration look fairly similar to what I have in the tank just now

Andrew

Hi,

I was coming from the view of a microbiologist and concern over bacteria entering the environment(my own background), certainly protozoans present a whole different issue.

For a disease causing bacteria to survive, it must have a host. Without that host then the organism will die (although ...

I would actually argue that its the other way around.

We keep our fish in a controlled environment and when disease occurs, we treat and eradicate that disease from the system. Therefore the potential for introducing new diseases to the environment must be minimal (but still possible!!).

The ...

Hi there,

If you have access to the aqualog book 'all corydoras' check page 47 (pic ref S20840-4), > C. trilineatus with well defined pattern > just like yours!!!!!

Andrew

Thanks Paul,

Have you got them on their own??? Currently in with discus (all over 10cm diameter), appreciate that breeding will require a specific set up, just wondering about the short term????

Andrew

Thanks for the replies.

Should have specified that the 12 to 15cm was SL.

Whiteysfish > are we talking about the same fish here > in the cat e log > L264, Sultan Pleco. SL detailed at approx 15cm, therefore mine full grown (almost????). Also detailed as primary herbivore (with a little meat added ...

Hi there folks,

I have been very fortunate and managed to pick up 5 of these very pretty plecos during the last month (all from the same shipment so assume wild caught). They are between 12 and 15cm in length, well coloured and feeding on algae wafers, bloodworm, chopped mussel etc (in fact ...