I just got a bunch of the zebra variant s.nigriventris. From what I can find they are only found in the Kutu region of the DRC and are a separate population that does not contain any standard colored individuals. Aquarium glasser published an article about them where it does call them a separate ...

Catfish-ologist wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 00:47 I believe those are Balroglanis Sp. Peru.
I know the guy that runs that place. He has helped me get some pretty unique woodcats!

Good to know. I purchased 3 dwarf honeycomb woodcats and am in love with them, trying to find more. Will check this place out.

I have been trying to find some a.luzia. Saw them for sale on eBay once recently but they were gone by payday. They are pretty cool Looking and I am completely unable to find anyplace that looks like they even ever have had them.

If you do come across any please let me know. I have to separate them to prevent hybrids but I think the big school is a factor and I actually don’t think they will keep spawning if they are suddenly in a tank with just the 4 adults and one little guy.

There are 3 big things I would say probably helped. 1) I feed a diet that includes a lot of frozen and live food. I do frozen like 4-5 times a week as a main part of the diet in that tank, there are also scuds living in there that I am sure they eat. Plus a repashy mix that is roughly 60% bottom ...

I wanted to come back and let you know unequivocally that contractus will spawn quite readily in captivity. I found a single fry, maybe 3-4 weeks old when I was doing a thorough cleaning of the tank and putting in new plants. He is about the size of the corydora habrosus that they share a tank with ...

Did you find some? If you are still looking I can recommend someone. I would like to add some to my groups. I can see if the guy I got mine from has more. If he doesn’t and you don’t mind waiting a bit I can contact you when the ones I am growing out currently are ready to go. Send me a message so I ...

I am getting some spoonface whiptails and am wondering if anyone who keeps them might be able to show me a picture of the underside of a male and female so I can see the difference. These should be old enough to sex and they will let me pick which ones I want, would like to see an example to be sure ...

Thanks! I was asking if you were still looking though because I had found someone who had a bunch.

Oh no! Not the whole list at once. It didn’t seem likely that I would find more than a couple at a time.
I have extensive special order lists at both of my local stores, they come up with something from time to time. I would always prefer to buy from a person than a store if it is an option though.

I must know the source of this great and unstoppable power

My pop up blocker doesn’t work on this site, they show up in the middle of the page blocking my view. Anyone else had this issue and solved it? What kind of dark magic are they using that this is the only website that manages to evade me pop up blocker? For real, I have never seen pop ups on an i ...

When I was replying to the other post I remembered that I meant to come back here and correct my error in uploading the wrong picture last time. That was the picture next to the one I wanted, and was a nigriventris.
This one is contractus, with those adorably huge eyes.

Yes they will and yes similar to s.nigriventris in pretty much every way. Their behavior, eating, social, and spawning behavior are pretty much identical. They are also similar in that neither species spawns for the first time until they are like two or so years old. The bigger the school the better ...

My pop up blocker doesn’t work on this site, they show up in the middle of the page blocking my view. Anyone else had this issue and solved it?

I know this is old but still looking for pink s.Petricola?

Did you find some? If you are still looking I can recommend someone.

I came here to ask about a couple things and then decided why not just post the long wish list, including things I have that need more friends, things that you don’t really see everyday, and things that border on impossible to source. Maybe I will get really lucky and people will know where to find s ...

Dave Rinaldo wrote: ↑24 Nov 2022, 22:30 Love to see a pic of your S. contractus.

As requested.
Took a minute, they do not care for having their picture taken.
Edit: I accidentally uploaded the wrong picture here. This fish is a nigriventris. Next picture is contractus.

I am also looking for a school of these. If you find some please do let us know.

Ordered 3 more, they arrived today. One very interesting thing about these guys is they appear to be able to change colors at will and pretty much instantly. They were all the same color when I took them out of the box, now one is almost white and one is fully black. The third is still that yellow ...

So to post an update I now have a school of 10 individuals in a heavily planted tank with some pygmy corys, habros, and Phoenix rasbora and they must like it because now I see them frequently swimming around in groups of 3 or 4. I will be upgrading the whole group to a 60 breeder in a few weeks and ...

The breeding reports for planiloricaria cryptodon kind of leave something to be desired in the way of information. I think these are just awesome looking fish and I have been playing with the idea of purchasing a male/female pair. I have pretty much decided to do it now that I have set up another 75 ...

To anyone running a tank with leaf litter on the bottom, how often do you change out the leaves? My tank just ends up with tons of leaf debris in the water column, is this just unavoidable or am I leaving the leaves in too long or is there some other type I should be using, or maybe more fresh ...

I just got a big group of yellow chubby plecos. Some are pretty large almost 10"! Anyone know if this bigger one is a male or female? Thanks in advance! I know I am kind of reviving an old thread. But I am dying to know if you figured out a reliable way to sex chubbys? It seems like every LDA046 ...

Honestly, I think you are right. These fish are bigger than my other horseman’s but they are also much more deeply colored, it is possible that the size of these ones is just kind of a fluke or is location based. They are some nice looking fish and I am going to pick them up either way, but being as ...

How would I go about submitting pictures of my wormline chubby plecos?
How do you submit information for unlisted species?
What about adding content about existing species?

These fish are gorgeous!! I took the first bag from the box and must have just stared at is repeating “wow” for a solid 2 minutes lol. They are all male but I had him put a request out for females and contacted the other 2 places that currently have them to see about getting 6 females. These amazing ...

Started seeing these pop up in online stores recently and now my lfs has a school in their display tank. They don’t sell out of the display generally but I have a pretty solid business relationship with the freshwater guy and got him to agree to sell them to me at a great price in exchange for him g ...

A591E3B8-F212-41BD-820F-883BC1D06C3C.jpeg I have 5 young (around 3”) LDA045s coming and reworking my 75 gallon as a Tocantins biotope setup for them. I have tried to research the specific needs of this species, however, I have not come up with much information about them from the internet and have n ...