Most Common Lipbrooder

[nvcichlids]

I am curious on what is the most common lipbrooding loricariidae to be found? I have been coming across more and more loricariidae's which bury themselves in sand, but I will I know if the species I am looking at are lipbrooders? The reason I am asking is I want to keep a lip brooding species, but every catfish I can find locally is labeled as a whiptail (the ones whom live in the sand, they still label L's as the L number.)

So I want to know what I should be looking for to know I have found a lipbrooding species and then how to tell what species I have found without having to take pictures and then review the pictures when I have my books available.


-Nate

[pturley]

Loricaria similima is imported out of Peru (seasonally) and is likely the most common. Particularly around this time of year.

[Norman]

Hi Nate,

Most of the species which buries themselve are lipbrooder (There are a less of Rineloricaria or Hemiloricaria species which do the same way).

Paul is right when he mentioned L.similima as most common lipbrooding species. Mostly you will get breedings of this species.

best regards
Norman

[nvcichlids]

are these easily distinguishable between comparative size rhineloricaria?

[Birger]

you should also be looking at the different

Pseudohemiodon

as well.

Pseudohemiodon sp`peru_i`

being one that is sometimes available as of late, the ones I had were doing well and fairly simple to care for but I lost them due to outside problems.

Birger

[Norman]

You can distinguish Rineloricaria from lipbrooders easily by looking at the mouth. If you see a lot of fine and long mouth barbles the species will propably be a lipbrooder. There are some lipbrooder like Loricariichthys, Hemiodontichthys or Limatiulichthys with a large, but cohered mouth.

In my opinion, for the Psdeudohemiodon-Group just Pseudohemiodon lamina and P.platycephalus is ideal for lipbrooder beginners.

Best will be, if you ask here, before you buy.

Norman

[nvcichlids]

I am good at keeping and breeding and creating biotopes, I just really am in the itch to find a group to try and breed and keep. I always like to ask questions before jumping onboard with a mistake.