Which Auchenipterids are being kept by PC members?

[rob rensen]

Thanks for all your contributions, Marc!

Yes indeed; many thanks

[rob rensen]

today I placed mine spinipterus to an another tank

[Atmichaels]

I had originally posted about these back in November, 2014. Bought 6 of these from Ted Judy as Tatia cf. galaxias. The first pic is shortly after arrival. The remainder were taken today of the fish on the right. 3 have grown into what look like intermedia, the other 3 look like the pics below. The spots on the body have completely disappeared and only remain on the tail. SL is 115mm.

[jeremybasch]

It is Spring and love is in the air! Or in this case, water!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yg1i8Hnimo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY4mSxSB50A

Jeremy

[KungFish]

I had originally posted about these back in November, 2014. Bought 6 of these from Ted Judy as Tatia cf. galaxias. The first pic is shortly after arrival. The remainder were taken today of the fish on the right. 3 have grown into what look like intermedia, the other 3 look like the pics below. The spots on the body have completely disappeared and only remain on the tail. SL is 115mm.

Interesting! I bought some very similar fish from Ted (small intermedia-complex Tatia), but they have barely grown at all in the 10 months that I've had them. They started out at about 3cm SL, and now they're still about 3-4cm SL.

[Marc van Arc]

It is Spring and love is in the air! Or in this case, water!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yg1i8Hnimo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY4mSxSB50A

Sorry for breaking my promise, but Jeremy, this is mating, not spawning. Once the eggs have been fertilized, the female will spawn in a week or so.

[Ojarumaru]

Thanks

[catfishchaos]

Ageneiosus vittatus

?

my best guess anyway and I'm only going off the one Clog picture and the caudal fin appears damaged

[bekateen]

Very cool fish!

[Martin S]

Very cool fish!

Agreed! What size is the fish (just the one?) What size tank, and what is it feeding on?
More pics!
Thanks
Martin

[Jools]

My first thought was

Tympanopleura sp(3)

, but now I do agree with the first ID. Nice find!

Jools

[bekateen]

Been a while since anyone has touched this thread.

Currently I have

Centromochlus perugiae

and

Centromochlus orca

.

The perugiae spawned twice in the last month; I moved the eggs to a 10 gal with a bunch of cory eggs and little cory fry, but I never saw any oil cats hatch. Next time I have to go back to my old habit of hatching eggs in a dedicated egg tank. To this day, I believe all my orca are females, so I need to source a male.

Anybody else want to report?

Cheers, Eric

[jeremybasch]

My Tatia strigata seem to be going strong. 4 spawns in the last month! Centromochlus perugiae also keep on producing. Hopefully the rest of the woodcats get with it!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZtZ2Plbl8

[bekateen]

My Tatia strigata seem to be going strong.

Hi Jeremy,

I see you're bringing some to Catfish Cataclysm. Those will be a choice catch for someone... who knows? Maybe me.

Cheers, Eric

[kruseman]

It has been a while since a picture has been posted here.
Let's bring a little life back in this old topic.

I bought 5 Tatia gyrina. 2 males and 3 females.

[bekateen]

I bought 5 Tatia gyrina. 2 males and 3 females.

@kruseman, how are your T. gyrina doing? Any spawning from them?

It turns out your finder's luck was mine yesterday: I came upon a group of six Tatia at a LFS (I think they're

Tatia gyrina

), three females, one male, and a couple of immature subadults. Had to get them all.

Now my list of currently kept auchenipterids is:

• Auchenipterichthys coracoideus
  (actively spawning)
• Centromochlus orca
• Centromochlus perugiae
• Spinipterus sp(1)
• Tatia gyrina

Sadly I lost the

Entomocorus gameroi

.

Cheers, Eric

[bekateen]

Put these

Tatia gyrina

in a tank with dead leaves. That's some great camouflage... Not that the fish disappeared amonst the leaves, but the midlateral line, which looks so obvious in a bare tank, suddenly becomes the dark central petiole of a dead leaf. This fish is crafty!

Cheers, Eric

[kruseman]

@kruseman, how are your T. gyrina doing? Any spawning from them?

They're doing fine, but no spawning. I think I need to provide them with softer water probably.

Nice to see you have a group now. Good luck with them, they're the best!

[bekateen]

It's been a while since I posted here, but today I received two pairs of

Trachelyichthys exilis

, so I thought I'd update my list:

• Auchenipterichthys coracoideus
  (breeding group of about 10 fish)
  
  Duringlanis perugiae
  (2 old males and 6 new additions)
  
  Spinipterus moijiri
  (2 pairs; no spawns yet)
  
  Tatia gyrina
  (3 males)
  
  Tatia orca
  (2 males)
  
  Trachelyichthys exilis
  (2 pairs)

On the T. exilis I got today, they are good sized, the largest about 6cm SL. One of the smaller fish was almost pure yellow in the shipping bag, while the other three were pigmented normally. I was disappointed to see the yellow fish had regained color (but still yellow in its base) only a few hours later. Oh well...

I never would have imagined I would be keeping so many. Such neat fish!

Cheers, Eric

[grokefish]

Supercool is this the longest running thread on here?

[kruseman]

is this the longest running thread on here?

It might!

After being infected myself as well with Mycobacterium marinum ( aquariumgranuloma) I had to euthanise my Tatia gyrina.

[bekateen]

My exilis spawned! viewtopic.php?f=7&t=49283. I hope there's more than one egg.

Cheers, Eric

[kruseman]

These are some of my Balroglanis macracanthus that I've been keeping for a while now.
upload picture

[bekateen]

Oooh, nice. Can we use the photos on the CLOG page?

Cheers, Eric

[kruseman]

Sure but is it good enough?

[bekateen]

Sure but is it good enough?

Well, we'd certainly appreciate better photos, but these are pretty good. Besides, have you seen the pic we have? That fish is skinny!

Cheers, Eric

[kruseman]

Mine are pigs.

I'll try to take some better ones.

[kruseman]

[Jools]

Awesome, get in!

Jools

[characinkid]

Hello,

I thought that I would resurrect this topic as I am now keeping 3 sp.
1.

Tatia intermedia

. Breeding group, many spawns
2.

Tatia gyrina

New group 5 (2M, 3F)
3.

Trachelyichthys exilis

New group (2M, 4F)

Any input on breeding the gyrina or T.exilis?

Thanks