Thanks Darrel, yeh, he was a sunflower of a friend and it's a good thing we can always google up his thousands of posts all over our hobby forums and find his great insight into our little water worlds.
Ed Ruiz here (Eric?)

It was 2009, I don’t remember the month, I drove up to Clarkston, Washington from SLC to meet with “The Apisomaster”, AKA, Larry Waybright (not the other way around as some would correct me). Larry was one of our co-admin at Wild Finarama (finarama.com), a place where for years many of us shared our ...

Looking to buy one specimen, needs to be 7 inches +, fully developed opercular/pectoral fin odontes. Ideally in northern UT, south ID or Vegas, or willing to ship to 84020 (Draper UT).
Thanks
Ed R

Really beautiful Andres and your pictures are bookworthy!
A very warm congrats.
Ed

Hi guys. Juan Jose (my male L-128) widowed recently. He is looking to marry again. Looking for a mature broad of his species, 5-6 inches SL. He dislikes hairy "women"! If you know what I mean. If you have a girl (for sure) you're willing to let go...let me know your price. I'm in SLC, Utah BTW ...

Mats now has another two pics (the three Wil sent me) showing the live fish out of the water while he holds it and Prof. Taphorn takes the pics. Also a take of the head straight from the front and a nice zoom in on the mouth. This particular specimen may measure some SL 8-9 inches, but I will try to ...

Hi Shane, thnx for the update. I had just sent Cesar's pics again to Mats. I sent one where Wil is "posing" a nice BEP caught off a well platform near the mouth of the Catatumbo. Don took the pic. I somehow deleted some other pics I had from this series but wrote to Wil and asked him to resend. I ...

Ed, very interesting. If you can find the photo, please send it to me: mats at planetcatfish dot com, and I will post it to the P. suttoni page. -- Mats Hi Mats, ok, dumb question...how can I send you an e-mail via planetcatfish? I'm looking around and I don't see an option to e-mail you directly ...

Hi guys and thnx Larry for pointing me to this thread. The earthen ponds were't exactly part of our college project and any P. suttonorum that we placed in them, was merely to try and keep them there until we had a better place. These ponds, natural ponds in the Northern Perija foothills were used ...

LOL Larry. I'm doing a little exception here and I am trying to keep it around 100ppm. Where these guys are from water is around there, somewhat harder than in the tributaries, mainly because it's rough water, a lot of movement, erosion over solid rock surfaces and the TDS is quite higher than in ...

Be very careful when adjusting the pH...I also know of people who have kept L128 with africans. I just acquired a pair from a pretty knowledgable hobbyist who basically keep african cichlids and he was keeping them at pH 8+/-. I had him slowly bring them down to 7.5 during a week and had a tank ...

Hi Mats, yes, I am aware of Larry's way of doing it (a very good friend of mine BTW and the first person I contacted with my concern), but I usually medicate in feed and not in the water column. I think I over did the concentration and bittered things up too much. The way I think I will go is to ...

Hi fellas, my name is Ed and I've been a member here for some years, as well as in Plecofanatics and Scot Cat, all wonderful places to learn pleco. I hardly have time to post anything interesting (or anything at all for the fact) since I am pretty busy administrating Finarama.com, a website ...

Back in 2006 I wrote Oliver. “Hi again Oliver, Find attached some pics. These are of a female P. suttonorum, over 50 cms long, which showed up in a "armadillo" fisherman's seine offshore of the the Catatumbo Delta. Remember Armadillo or Corroncho are the common names given to any suckermouth cat in Z ...

If anyone is interested in some pics of recently found P. suttonorum please write me at edgar@alto-orinoco.com

Ed

Hi guys, I'm Edgar Ruiz (not Edwad or Edward) and I go by Ed. Been a member here for sometime but too busy administrating The Angelfish Study Group (TASG) / Finarama to enjoy here woth any frequency. I do know Shane from several years back when he was at the Embassy in Caracas and have exchanged ...

Hi Shane, South Africa?

Where next

Siberia?

Te estan esperando los muchachos de la negra con los potes de leche por alla en Ocumare... LOL

You translate it for the rest...

Have a merry one...

Ed

Hope the L128 is at least 6 inches for that price. Like Larry says, keep shopping and let the seller cure the bad. These fish are very sensitive to conventional ich treatments.

Ed

Hi Matien. Unfortunately, now that I have a camera, the fish has recovered about 80% of its normal color pattern. When it was bright yellow, I did not have a camera. Like I said I noticed the color change about a month ago, maybe 6 weeks, and it has gradually recovered the normal bright olive green ...

Hi Janne, from black to albino that's really 180 degrees. I really wish I would have had a camera at the time of the change in color of my L200 - I would compare his yellow coloration to that of a Yellow Tang, or as bright as this > :P emoticon. I got a digicam for my wife this Christmas and will ...

Merry Christmas to all and to all a colorful question. It has to do with one my L200. I have a 135G with several Orinoco and Amazon species. Among them a group of four L200. It was about a month ago that I noticed one of the L200 showed up with what seemed to be a total loss of his green overcast ...

Hi Larry, Andreas and guys... I think Andreas tank is as good as it needs to be to make these fish feel at home. Though some people advise that wood is not necessary, my fish (L128, L200, L137) went through a good amount of bark and wood for several months producing large amounts of "wood byproduct ...

Hi Rense, of course an air diffuser and air pump will help as a first step. Make sure to allow free circulation of air above the aquarium. Still, I would suggest... 1. More frequent water changing (and gravel cleansing) with water of the right quality (pH,DH - for this species, I would suggest < 6 ...

A very important parameter to take a look at with most Orinoco mainstream and tributary loricarids is D.O. - The load of fish, circulation of the water column, among several other factors, such as amount of food and residues settling on bottom and if there is any CO2 supplementation can be ...

Jose Angel, coincido con Shane, ambos factores, dieta y biotipo, pueden incidir sobre la coloración, de modo que sólo en base a este último, es muy difícil determinar con precisión la especie de que se trata. La relación que yo he observado, es que en aguas más cristalinas, o aguas negras/clar ...

I am starting to wonder about the L 128/L 200 designation. I have seen several photos lately sent to me by aquarists whose fish was clearly L 128 (black) at one point and clearly L 200 (green) a year later. I am beginning to wonder if one coloration or the other is not simply a byproduct of diet in ...

Hi Jose, could you tell us if you purchased it or caught it yourself? I see you're in Valencia, Venezuela? I'm in SLC, Utah but I've caught this variety just outside Puerto Ayacucho (Pozo Azul locality). I can tell you as far as the differences between L-200 and L-128 that basically it's the color ...