Ah, I hope my L134 little colony hear you and decide to show me what their fry really look like!!

Thanks everybody. I really like it when fry just appear in the tank like magic

They are in a 75G tank with some driftwood and they share it with some rummynose tetras, blue emperors, some guppies, one L066, two L002 and some piebald ancistrus (I have some many piebalds I just put them everywhere). The L377 are about 4 inches. They are kept in Cincinnati tap water which is hard ...

I bought these as L377 a while ago and a few days ago I found some fry swimming around and a few more in a cave with an adult.

Three of the five adults in that tank

http://gallery.amergim.com/gallery2/d/4167-1/catfish_0013.JPG


One of the parents in the cave. There's still some fry in there ...

I got this guy as an L066, but I'm not sure that's what it is. Most of the pictures I've seen of L066 show a striped dorsal fin, which this fish doesn't have. It's about 4 inches right now

Thanks,
Ramon

http://gallery.amergim.com/gallery2/d/4156-1/catfish_0008.JPG

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Do you think the other two are L174?

I got them as L174, but one of them I'm sure it's not.

Fish 1
http://gallery.amergim.com/gallery2/d/4138-1/catfish_0002.JPG
http://gallery.amergim.com/gallery2/d/4141-1/catfish_0003.JPG

Fish 2
http://gallery.amergim.com/gallery2/d/4144-1/catfish_0004.JPG

Fish 3
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I'm in... I enjoyed '06 way too much to miss '08> I better start making some room in my tanks

I forgot to mention those are two different fish. And I just got home and another two are showing the same symptoms. I thought they were also dead, but they were still breathing, so I moved them to a 10G tank. I don't think they'll make but at least I'll try.

The 75G has another L066, a L239, two ...

I just found 2 of my L66 dead. I took some pictures to see if anybody has any suggestions as to why they died. There are some red spots on both of them. I tested the water yesterday an it was fine. And after I took the fish out of the tank, I did a 35% water change, just in case.

Any help would be ...

Cool. The Cat-eLog says it's an uncommon import. Any reasons why it's not imported more often? I think it's a nice looking catfish.

Actually, they are not mine (yet ). A friend brought them in and we were trying to sex them when we thought that maybe the big one was not an L163. How can you tell an L075 from an L163? In some of the pictures in the Cat-eLog they look almost the same.

Could that big one be a female?

The big one on the right looks like a different species. Higher number of smaller dots than all the others.

Can anybody ID this catfish?

Davy Jones wrote:If you keep enough of each species then there is alot less of a chance of them cross breeding. Love ur C. leucomelas

I try to keep at least six of each if I have to keep them in the same tank for any reason.

I'll just have to wait and see. But I bought 6 more L333 fry, just in case Now, I just have to wait for them to grow...

Thanks everybody!

The first one is close to 5", if not more, and the other one over 4". Does that help?

This one does the same thing. I've never seen it inside a cave and I bought it about a year ago. I think it's about 3.5"-4". I got a group of six young ones of the spotted variety at the Catfish convention last year but I lost them during an ich outbreak. They do produce a lot of waste. I have a ...

I finally moved some of the catfish to the new 40G 'river' tank that I had cycling. This is the L204 resting in front of the powerhead (to the left, out of the picture). There's a pretty strong current and he just really loves it there. Every time I check the tank, he's there, enjoying the flow. Now ...

I got a couple of these as L052 but I'm thinking they may be D. brachyura (L168). Any suggestions?




Thanks,
Ramon

I'm pretty much a newbie but these look to me like female and male. Am I wrong?




Thanks,
Ramon

Cool. I wanted to make sure I don't mix species and end up with hybrids. Thanks.

These two pictures look like trilineatus

http://www.amergim.com/albums/Fish/DSC_0068.sized.jpg
http://www.amergim.com/albums/Fish/DSC_0069.sized.jpg

But these next three, I'm not so sure. Ian suggested they were juvie trilineatus when I posted a while ago, but they are now almost as big as the ...

Sure.

Ramon

The group I got is still in the temporary tank until the 40G long is cycled and ready for them. This guy likes to rest on top of the big piece of driftwood.

Mats,

Thanks for the info. If they are any similar to the sabaji, it looks like the L141 could do ok in a 40G with current. I may just try that and see how they do. I can always put them back in their current tank, even though it's a bit crowded with piebald ancistrus.

There's plenty wood in that ...

Do you have any other info? I haven't been able to find much info specific to this species. Do they come from fast water?

Thanks,
Ramon

Thanks for the info. I may have to find them a new home in the future. For now, they are just between 2"-3"