Sorry, my English is very poor, but I think that the problem is that in English piece means both a single thing (individual, specimen) or a fragment of a bigger thing (piece of cake). In Russian, as Viktor Jarikov said, "shtuka" means an object, but a fragment of this object would be "kusok". The ...

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The first Clariid I have encountered in the wild!!!!!! A baby Hetropneustes fossilis ...

Update: the little survivor is doing fine and is much, much bigger
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It's already been twice, but...

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Corydoras adolfoi are popular today and they have some coleagues



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How about this? I suppose that three invisible fishes are the most valuable.


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Thank you all for the kind words. Unfortunately, I can't see the baby anymore
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next triplet

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Mine are all angels, towards the other fish and to me. I'm changing sponge prefilters, they are hidding behind, with a bare hands. During the day they are very shy, "invisible" fish, during the night they are more active, but they are intersted in other Heteropneusteses, not in other fish (probably ...

The same triplet of corys, but another day

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Again

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I spotted today a tiny, 2 cm long baby Heteropneustes fossilis in my 450 l tank.

There lives a colony of 7-8 (I don't remember the exact number) adult and subadult H. fossilis along with with Platydoras costatus, Agamyxis pectinifrons, Megalechis thoracata, Ancistrus sp., lot of snails like Brotia ...

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And now I lost my avatar too , and can't upload a new one.
I tried to upload from my computer, and then directly from www.photobucket.com and nothing works.

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My error message is:
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In my oppinion the specific name of Synodontis ocellifer means “little eyes bearer” (just like Lucifer=light bearer or light bringer) and comes from ocellus (plural ocelli) = little eye (eyes) and “-fer”, a suffix coming from the irregular verb fero (fers, ferre, tuli, latum) that means to bring (to ...

A couple years ago I've made a hidden places for my catfish from a flat ventilation channel made of white PVC. Black plastic would be better, but they have a white only. It's not dedicated for water supplies, but I have no problem with toxicity for fish or snails.
There is a little story:
This is ...

Heteropneustes fossilis of course

It's also my favourite and the oldest (27 years) catfish.

My all-time number one favourite catfish is Heteropneustes fossilis
Number two is Agamyxis pectinifrons

119 gallons only
150x50x60 cm = 450l

You should read this: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4143

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Thank you all for your kind words. I really appreciate this. Longevity is that thing in catfishes, that I like the most, a catfish is an aquarist's lifetime fish
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My 27 years old Heteropneustes fossilis passed away. We spent together all this time, I remember him as a 4 cm wiggling worm. He had no sign of illness, just during the last week was paler and more often swimming around the tank during the day. This is the last photo of him, taken on December 25 ...

Coryman, do you think, that the dark colouration and blindness in these fish is just a coincidence? Or dark colour is caused by blindness, somethink like "night" adaptation, fish with no eyes "thinks" that it is a night? Or it is a kind of melanistic mutation, that causes abnormal eye development in ...

There are my two almost solid black Megalechis sp. They are both blind. I've bought them as a 1 cm tiny black fishes and didn't realize that they had no eyes.

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Thanks racoll, I'm glad that you like it. You should buy some synodontis, they will cut your java moss into the propper shape
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