Hmm, it is full body. It's just quite wide so I guess your if your browser is narrow it gets cut off. Putting a rotated one up.

From the catalogue looks like a female Sturisoma sp. aff. festivum, possible to get a confirmation?

Sorry to highjack the thread, but is the care and feeding of hara hara essentially the same as hara jerdoni ? I'm thinking of setting up a tank with a hara catfish, but can only seem to find vendors with the hara hara. There also seems to be little information about the hara hara on the internet ...

I was thinking of putting a small catfish in my desk aquarium. Any ideas? I would prefer an asian cat but any suggestions would be good. Oh, and preferably one that doesn't prefer large schoals (size constraints).

Hi, I have something of a mystery. I noticed today some sort of small egg sac on the underside of a leaf(bacopa). It's a small 13l tank and the leaf is near the top of the tank. The only inhabitants of the tank are a pair of Endler's Livebearers, Two otocinclus affinus and a single snail (malaysian ...

I had a loricarid that got ick yesterday morning, I found it dead when I got home tonight (with a bottle of medication in my bag) the other fish in the tank seem to be in perfect health. Do you think it would be a good idea to medicate (at a lessened dose) just to eliminate any chance of the other ...

Well, at the time of writing this the puffer has been in the tank for two hours. As soon as it noticed a snail on the glass it struck at it, ate it whole and is now actively searching the substrate for more. It actually strikes any odd shaped pebbles. Quite entertaining really.

But do you think the cause is more likely global warming or Africa's shrinking tropical zones (due to agriculture)?

There was one the first day. Left it in the tank. Day two I noticed a second so I was like "alright maybe this isn't a good idea" so both snails go in a jar. Day three I see three more tiny snails. So I bought a dwarf puffer and put the two from the jar back in the tank as food. Now it turns out the ...

Pictus cats are really interesting swimmers. Plus they're relatively peaceful and won't outgrow you tank.

I love them for their barbels though

I've decided it's most likely a juvenile malaysian trumpet snail. It's tiny and it's shell is mostly transparent. The shape of the shell at first almost looks like a Cowrie, but if you look carefully it has a bit of a spiral bud on the rear. I haven't decided whether I want to let it live in my ...

I've got a small (about half the size of a grain of rice) snail that I've discovered in my tank. I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good site for identification of said snail. I am 99.99% sure he came in on an amazon sword plant (though since the store has all there plants together that ...

Just checked the catalogue. Each fish has a max size of 38'' (though it's unlikely all five will make it to that size) so by the 1 inch/gallon rule you would need at least a 190 gallon tank for all five. But odds are that wouldn't even be enough considering how active and aggressive they can be.

Ummm, they may be fine now but they will eventually outgrow basically any aquarium you can fit in your house.

Cool, thanks!

Has anyone ever known these bulldog catfishes to jump? It's alone in an uncovered 13L tank with lots of rocks, an amazon sword (Echinodorus bleheri) and plenty of natural rocks. Oh and really good filtration, it cycles the entire tank in just over a minute.

So theoretically a meticulously clean tank that's being cycled wouldn't be that hard on fish?

What is it exactly about the cycling process that is harmful to fish? Is it the lack of bacterial colonies, or the spike in toxins that build up after a day or two as a lack of said colonies, or something else completely?

Oh cool, so there's the meaning, do you know what word it stands for? aff. too.

Actually on further inverstigation I believe that it's a Chaetostoma cf. thomsoni It has spots only on it's head and really prominent stripes from the armour.

Do you know what the cf. stands for?

I went to the lfs today and picked up a "rubber mouthed pleco" but looking on the site I've decided that it's a Chaetostoma milesi . Aside from the brief profile in the cat-elog I can't find any information about it on the internet. Does anyone know if it's an uncommon species of Chaetostoma ...

Hope the fish pulls through. I haven't got much to add, just good luck!

Wow, I just saw a picture of Corydoras sterbai, and now I HAVE to have them. So that's what my corys will be, I nice shoal of six or so, won't that be nice?

Well, the tank is currently theoretical. It'll probably be 33 US gal, or the next immediate size up from that. I've already planned out the contents of the tank and it will be great for cory's and dwarf cichlids, it was just something the other guy said about corys and the cichlids not going ...

Neons aren't the greatest cycling fish, they are a little fragile when just introduced, but if they're destined for death I guess that doesn't really matter, eh?

Hmmm, I'm having trouble finding any information (or pictures) of mcmasteri

Yeah, I was thinking of a pair of apistogramma agassizi, but they aren't compatible with corydoras?

I once gave my girlfriend a small pictus cat and on day two it gorged itself on an entire fancy guppy and died the next day I don't think it was eating any of her standard fish fare, but I think if you feed them properly they will be peaceful. Forget to feed them and you'll be missing fish.

I'd like to be as faithful to the natural habitat as I can, but I'm somewhat limited by cost and availability. So I'd like to get the entire contents of the aquarium to be from one region but I may have to branch out to a general "south american" habitat. Considering I live in the great white north ...

Hi, I am a university student very new to the hobby and I feel impelled to build a farlowella habitat. I'm thinking of a 150 L tank that I'm going to try to intensively cycle and aquascape for a while before introducing any fish. I'm in the early planning/research stages and I'd like to make an ...