Foerschi whiptail catfish??

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 25 Jun 2006, 14:02

Hi Peoples!

I have heard of these for sale here in Australia, i done a google and nothing came up!!

can anyone give me a picture of them and some infomation?

thanks in advance

Ben

mummymonkey · Post by **mummymonkey** » 25 Jun 2006, 14:41

Search on 'LG6'

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 26 Jun 2006, 08:14

sorry mate i am lost?
LG6?

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 26 Jun 2006, 11:45

LG would be another variation of "L-number", and if you do a forum search for LG6, you'll probably find what you're looking for... Don't ask me what LG stands for, as I haven't got a clue (I presume it's not Lucky-Goldstar, but you never know, they do so many other things - why not some aquatic trading

)

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Mats

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 26 Jun 2006, 17:33

LG= Loricariidae Gattung= the species belongs pretty likely to an undescribed genus of the Loricariidae familly, the 6 is for the number of such species so far...

this has been done especially for all those Otocinclus and similar, other Loricaria and similar that don't fit to any genus and which won't receive any L number for a reason or so... seems like the L numbering system is strictly for the member of the Hypostominae!!

Cheers
Yann

snowball · Post by **snowball** » 27 Jun 2006, 02:27

This would be the LG6 in the cat-elog:

Not much info there, but they do appear to closely resemble 'regular' whiptails so I imagine care would be similar - driftwood & leaf litter, with some PVC tubing on offer for breeding. If you do get hold of them perhaps you could try to get some better pics for the cat-elog?

catfishbiotope · Post by **catfishbiotope** » 27 Jun 2006, 04:33

I used to have a breeding group of these, could never find any real information on them around. Have met the guy who first introduced them to the Aussie market and he wasn't even sure they were called Foerschi whiptails...
They were easy to keep, very similar to Rineloricaria eigenmanni, smaller and more intricately patterned, with a different shaped head.

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 27 Jun 2006, 04:46

Thanks for the posts everyone!

it seems that there is not much infomation on these whiptails.

I would like to find out more if possible.

cheers
Ben

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 27 Jun 2006, 12:51

Hi!

Actually they don't seem to use cave for spawning, but would spawn and care of the eggs a lot like Farlowella and Sturisoma spp would do!!

Cheers
Yann

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 27 Jun 2006, 14:35

one thing i am trying to work out is, what size do they grow too?

in captivity?

Ben

mummymonkey · Post by **mummymonkey** » 27 Jun 2006, 23:01

My adults are about 10cm not including the tail.

catfishbiotope · Post by **catfishbiotope** » 28 Jun 2006, 05:57

Yann, I've never been able to get my R. eigenmanni to spawn in a tube, they always spawn on the glass, usually right in the middle of the tank.
Ben, my Foerschi were about 15cm when I sold them, don't know if they can get bigger.

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 04 Aug 2006, 13:49

I now have some of them!

will post pics as soon.

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 06 Aug 2006, 04:45

As promised some photo's of them.

Photo's taken with an ordinary digital camera, soon i will take some better photo's of them.

Infomation is still very limited on these catfish so if anyone can shed more light on them please let me know.

Regards
Ben

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 10 Aug 2006, 16:07

Some much better pics!!

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » 10 Aug 2006, 23:36

I might be very mistaken...but these look a bit different from the "Foerschi" I had, in fact they look identical to the R. eigenmanni I'm currently breeding. I have long wondered how the fish sold as "Foerschi" in Australia were identified, and who identified them as such...
I might try to post up some pics of the R. eigenmanni, and the "Foerschi" if I still have any.
Can someone whos a lot better at identification give us an opinion?
Shaun.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 11 Aug 2006, 10:14

It certainly looks like a species, but which one is a good question... They are definitely not easy to tell apart in general [there are a few that are pretty unique - the remainders are not...]

Note also that the Cat-eLog isn't complete - it's got 21 species including L-numbers and cf. variants. CLOFFSCA lists another 20 species... There may still be undescribed species on top of this...

Oh, and none of the 40 odd species is called R. foershi, nor could I find anything like that on the web...
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Mats

Ben Moore · Post by **Ben Moore** » 12 Aug 2006, 03:56

Very interesting Shaun and excellent points.

I also have 5xRineloricaria eigenmanni in one tank with 6 of the Foerschi's and they look very different.

Different patterns, colour, head shape and tail length.

As Mat mentioned there are many whiptail species. If anyone else can shed more light on this please let us know.

Cheers
Ben

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » 14 Aug 2006, 03:30

After some very close examination I don't think the ones I have look like the pictures above, but to me they no longer look like R. eigenmanni either! I know they're a Rineloricaria, just have to work out which one now.
Shaun

Fox M · Post by **Fox M** » 19 Mar 2008, 20:28

Hello i also purchased some fish under the foerschi namebut i think they might be Rineloricaria pava
view this http://www.scotcat.com/articles/article6.html

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