that's god's own truth......

and it's not just size; once the word goes out that a fish is rare or endangered, suddenly there's a whole crowd out there driving the demand; price goes up, poaching ensues, species gets even more endangered.


as for the difference between hybrids and true specxies ...

and with this accoun t -wich is old- I'm not there yet

I could ofcourse use it a while just to annoy peeps, but I'm tryin to be the shepherd this time

add em up

I can add to this list with a few Mochokiella paynee wich I bought in the summer of 1986, already at least 2 years old or so.
In essential Mochokiella is a small Synodontis, sort of.

And I bought a group of 5 Synodontis nigriventris back in May 1984, three of whom still survive as up today, in ...

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What's"Dinyar"

wrong question!
you'd best ask WHO is Dinyar
:roll: :roll: :roll: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

He'll be around.
apart from fooling around with catfishes, Dinyars' best liked hobby is tweaking my elbow ...

keeping more males seems to work with Syno's.
I've always kept a little less males than females in my showtanks.
but for breeding a bit more rivalry works best; Syno males are lazy!
they seem to get in action only when they fear someone else will do it, if they won't; hence more males.
A single ...

how do you keep 2 male bettas together???

By sticking to mouthbreeding Betta species. They do fine in groups, love densely planted tanks, and quite often the females are worse than the males.

fascinating fishies! I've had Betta picta (wich did fine), Betta rubra (next to impossible to keep alive ...

biology teacher at a highschool, so being into puberty for life is an asset!

Oh, THOSE

the kiddy-eggs filled with all kinds of plastic crap, that consits of tiny parts and they have to be assembled. I'm familiar with pink dinosaurs, green cowboys and the like; hipdeep in tiny nephews......

First time someone actually put in something pretty in those!

There's a truckload of leechspecies that look exactly like that, and they're scavengers, and at worst eggrobbers, but rarely bloodsuckers.
the ones that such blood from fish usually have very big, obvious suckers on both front- and rear end.....

gross as it may be, this beastie is probably ...

You could stay biotope and go after the elusive Amazonian counterpart of the needlenose; Potamorraphis guianensis, if I'm correct.....

never seen them in the LFS, but it's a VERY pretty beastie!

http://www.elacuarista.com/atlas/images/potamorrhaphis_guianensis2.jpg

BUT hoewever, you can count ...

These are made of chocolate??

woo-hoo!!

too bad. I'm a choco-junkie, so if I ever lay my hands on either one, it will get eaten in short order.

is it me, or are the similarities between that Liobagrus and Lophiobagrus uncanny?
I swore I saw a Lophio, until I read the name......

"bred" as in probably hybrids?
or "bred" as in F1's?

Because I noticed that the black triangle in the pectorals is completely absent, and in the dorsal as well.
ALL the baby-multies I've seen have VERY contrasting fins with lots of black, although in some varieties that seems to grow less or almost ...

oh, no, that's not true.

The whole trick is proper care and a zoo-sized tank and they definitely WILL reach lengths very close to the wild.

A cichlid-shop housed two Phractocephalus for years in a 3000+ liter tank for at least 2 decades, and they passed the three-foot mark years and years ago ...

I spoke with Rene Kruter last Saturday, and between him, Dinyar, Rusty, me and others there's not even near enough knowledge to cover the complete confusion that's rapidly arising on the "wide mouthed Tanganyika Syno's" (the polli/petricola/dhonti/tanganicae group).....

Unfortunately there's ...

perhaps studying real hard, hard enough to go to the university, joining thatr, specializing in fish (Ichthyology) and then going after weird Pleco's might be a workable scenario? takes a load of time, however.

You might like the option of getting known into the "fishcollecting crowd" and joining ...

impressive!

are you sure you want to put the Brown Panthers in with petricola? that would make them the only ones with reddish eyes and a black dorsal spine....

They seem a bit more "polli-related" to me, but YMMV

BTW Dinyar
what would you make of these?
they're from Tanzania and some are passing the 6" mark.....
http://www.vatoelvis.com/Petricola/Petricola_01.jpg

http://www.vatoelvis.com/Petricola/Petricola_02.jpg

http://www.vatoelvis.com/Petricola/Petricola_03.jpg

http://www.vatoelvis.com ...

You will need an immense tank already for that RTC, but perhaps a similar sized Pseudodoras niger or Megalodoras uranoscopus will do??

Maybe THAT's why it turned out into a big mess-up (wich I admit took some doing from me) when we COULD have met, but missed it altogether.

It's the Gods, Dinyar! :roll: 8) or Fate, Karma according to one's believe....
They try to save planet earth and they're keeping us separate for a very good ...

Any Corydoras would fit in nicely, just get 4-6 of a single species and you'll do fine. Avoid big ones (C latus) or cold water species such as C barbatus.

A single Ancistrus (Bristlenose), or a few Otocinclus can be kept in there, or a pair of nice Rhineloricaria lanceolata wich is a fine catfish ...

Yep, I got them!!
so now the last of the non-Burundi Tangies will go on the move.

My tank is too crowded anyway, probably will be for ever, I guess.
But we went to Germany and I spotted 5 ABSOLUTELY gorgeous true S petricola's (2 males, 3 females) wich were sold as "S polli".
the lady on the ...

the best thing to put in there is a Ramshornsnail; Planorbis.
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harmless (I put them in with Syno-fry, Lamprologine fry etc). Once the baby fish are about 1 cm or so, add a baby bristlenose. much better than a pleco and adults stick at only 4"

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It's a hard-to-quit habit, I agree!
6 1/2 year ago I quit the smoking of ordinary tobacco during everyday, but I didn't quit with the cannabis for obvious reasons :roll:

Then, years later I had to lessen and finally lay off that too, because the few remaing braincells were migrating through ...

Pturley, pix will be some doing!
as you probably know, those cats hide back in their cave. A cam will perfectly zoom in on the cave but stubbornly refuse to get what's IN there on the pic (been there, done that)

and my PC is still down, so unloading the camera will be a trial in itself.

I'll try ...

OK!
here's some details:

tanksize; length x width x highth: 1 meter x 35 cm x 30 cm

substrate: riversand, some holy rock, burrowing snails (Melanoides tuberculata), some Ramshornsnails (Planorbis spp)

lights: 1 18watt fluorescence light, color; warm white. from 9.00 AM to 22.30 PM ...

Synodontis polli has cleaned out all the snails from my Lake Tanganyika tank

My S polli's eat all kind of snails too, unfortunately they do NOT eat the Burrowing Snail (melanoides tuberculata).
But Ramshorns don't last long in the polli tank, neither do pondsnails or clockspring snails!

keep yer fingers crossed ye-all
BUT I spotted one of my bigger male Phyllo's being cosey yesterday.
upon a closer look, he has a "huge chin", a female as company, and the eggs are clearly visible through the skin
(big yellow spheres)
today, they're both still in the burrow, mouths full of eggs ...

no it's all convergent evolution, and that's only speaking about the sharklike cats, such as Iridescent Sharks (Pangasius/Pangasiodon), Arius, Pims etc.

There's a truckload of cats out there that don't resemble sharks at all: Corydoras, Rubbernose Plecs, Whiptails, Clarias, Bumblebee-cats etc etc ...

definitely depends on the book!

There are a LOT of "general tropical fish"-books out there, where the "catfish" section is basically a compilation of mistakes, so to speak.....

wich book are we talking about?

You can safely assume the the catfish-knowhow (especially naming them!) on this site and ...

Good thing you have a plague of egglaying easily crushable snails.

The Burrowers are REALLY getting out of hand here, in the big Tanganyika showtank.....

like hundreds and hundreds on the window, rocks, plants and sand; and they're both very hard-t-crush and livebearing too.....

more and more, I ...