a) white spotted catfish
b) a short bodied, plump looking catfish with a black body and white spots, has "whiskers" although short. They were huddled together at the base of the sump tower in a corner at the LFS (probably due to a lack of hiding spots)
How about Agamyxis pectinifrons ?

I did ...

a) white spotted catfish
b) a short bodied, plump looking catfish with a black body and white spots, has "whiskers" although short. They were huddled together at the base of the sump tower in a corner at the LFS (probably due to a lack of hiding spots)

Just noticed that some of the more lethargic ones have green stomachs... Is this something good (they ate algae) or bad (some kind of infection)?

I suspect its just the light shining through their small bodies making it easy to see.

Many plant eaters spend long times with little or slow ...

Just noticed that some of the more lethargic ones have green stomachs... Is this something good (they ate algae) or bad (some kind of infection)?

Oto's need algae, and are only relaxed when resting on plants.

Putting them in a plant free tank, would be like requesting you to sleep in a tent in a tiger infested swamp.

sufficient geen algae can be raised by putting stones from a tank in aquariumwater in the full sun. I see you are from ...

I am having a weird issue with my common otocats and that is some of them have immensely protruding stomachs (over eating) whereas others have lean stomachs (under eating). None of the under eating ones seem emaciated beyond help at this point but efforts to get them to eat have not resulted well ...

They are a xanthic form of Ancistrus catfish. It is a mutation where fish lacks all pigments in the body except yellow so the pattern on the body and fins does not appear. Breeding these to an albino would (most likely) result in offspring that are all brown/black (i.e. regular brown bristlenose ...

Hi,

Although the difference is most cases like Eric wrote there are expections:
C. trilineatus with only spots on the head, C. julii with a reticulated pattern, in C. trilineatus I even had one specimen without the midlateral line on one side.
They are very flexible with respect to pattern and we ...

Because I am not affiliated with any institution, I cannot get access to the full text of many things. I am not sure if there are any Ancistrus on this list:

Species of wild animals bred in captivity during 1979 and multiple generation captive births

Article first published online: 18 DEC 2007 ...

The one you have is a lemon bristlenose if it has blue/black eyes. if the eyes are red it is an albino common.

L144 come from an area that is not collected from & are not in the hobby except for a few individuals. If you have obtained it from a specialist who can tell you the ancestry back to some ...

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Thank you for the suggestion Ron. The ...

It is possible that a fish is homozygous for TWO of the albino mutations. I wonder if such fish would be snow white.



here is a post from someone here on the site... perhaps this could answer your questions?

Hi,

well, I am not a biologist, so perhaps a geneticist can better explain (or ...

There are at least two albino BN genes, both of which have yellow bodies. I do not know if there is a third albino gene with snow white body and pink eyes. There is definitely another mutation with yellow body and black eyes.


What are the differentiating characteristics of these two albino BN ...

Barbie wrote:Do you have access to potassium permanganate?

Barbie

I can get some from the local pharmacy, yes. It will not be pure probably though; it will be the one to treat wounds and such- for human use.

Yes, all of them are Hypans. The first batch are 201s IME. The others with the bigger spots look H. Contradens. Then again, photos were taken during stressful conditions, which could somehow make identification more challenging. Nevertheless, they all look very good!

Thanks! Any chance of gender ...

magdalo wrote:Hypans indeed. Looks L-201, IMO.

the animals in the first two picture have a different pattern than the ones in the other pictures though? surely not the same animal?

Mol_PMB wrote:TWIGLET!

Most of the eggs haven't hatched yet, but one clearly has and here is the baby twiglet!
It's 10mm long and apart from the odd wiggle of its tail I haven't seen it move yet.

so... it's a (1) cm long?

Hello,

I came across a seller claiming to be selling a group of 6 L201's which he says are all females. These are the fish being sold: http://foto.akvaryum.com/fotolar/76652/IMG_20140929_010002.jpg
http://foto.akvaryum.com/fotolar/76652/IMG_20141004_215249.jpg

Now the reason why I am not sure ...

The odds are good they have a parasite. I'm sorry, I was away at CatCon and didn't take my laptop. If the parameters are good and you're doing water changes regularly, you definitely need to treat them. I prefer ProFormC for external parasites (or in their gills), but if you don't have access to it ...

it's to complex to predict when they will spawn again , (factors like : food , age , water change , atm pressure, etc), you can try to trigger them or let them do their thing.
for easier eggs colection you can use a spawing mop . i use some anubias floating plants ,and my Corydoras Panda like to ...

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Just increase the surface disturbance or filtration. That should fix it :).

Barbie

I have done as suggested; I moved the bubble filter further down to increase the air bubbles' time in the tank and create additional surface disturbance and brought the internal filter closer to the top for some ...

Plecos that swim to the top of the tank need more oxygen. The odds are good you are covering too much of the surface with plants and not providing enough surface disturbance. Without actual test results (most shops will test the basics for free) it's really hard to guess.

Barbie

Hmm, bravo! Good ...

Get a test kit, could very well be water parameters. Could you describe your setup in the interim? Tank size, filtration, other inhabitants, water change schedule, etc. this might spur some thoughts.

Tank Size: 20G, internal filter and also sponge filter, no other inhabitants (1 male 2 female ABN ...

I had a pair of LF albino's that threw nothing but albino LF fry for a long time. Then one day they started to throw shortfin albino and then both shortfin and long fin brown fry.

There is more to it than simple Mendelian genetics. Age or environment may also contribute to the pigmentation/lack of ...

Hi,
The bottom one is 100% male.
The top one feels like a male too, as long as your hand is about the same size as mine, although the females can be hard to identify.

Cheers

Thanks! Not my hand, the seller's... seller says it was sold to him as a male and a female but he reckons they are both ...

I am looking for something that will drive my nitrates down too... Can you kindly elaborate on what the "bio media to eat the nitrate" is?

Had these catfish for about a year and a half now... they have spawned only once and then the male threw out the eggs and played around with them for a couple days before eating them (could be the females too though).

Females are about to explode from the eggs but the male shows no interest what-so ...

Well this was quite a surprise. This morning I woke to find 2 of my 4 trilineatus dead in my betta tank... no idea why. Just as I had finished scooping up the poor things (RIP) from the tank and got ready to go into my depressed mode, I noticed activity in my panda cory tank that appeared to be ...

Am I the only one to notice the red coloration between the dorsal and the caudal fin?