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and a third one who is camera shy at the moment. I know I need to get these Tatia perugiae some better driftwood. I wasn't expecting to get them, but it was a very pleasant surprise. I am a bit worried about the female there. She's quite thin. The first one is a male, correct? I need to find out the sex of the third one...
Amanda

Don't worry Amanda, just feed them well without too many food competitors in the beginning. You're correct on the gender btw. Nice asset.

Thanks. The third is also a male. I was shocked when I saw the size of mouth on such a small fish. I'm going to scatter the food more next time I place it in the tank. Half a cube of bloodworms disappeared into one small fish! They certainly pay a lot of attention to the lone female. I need to find another female, me thinks. Friends in my local fish club have had success breeding them with a bamboo tubing system. I can't wait to see the set-up.
Amanda

It's one week that I've had these three fishies. They now appear as if they've swallowed golf balls. Much the same as the Bunocephalus coracoideus female did, except they ALL look that way(males and female). They're "nocturnal" unless I put food in the tank. Then, it's mayhem. Each has a PVC hiding tube. One male prefers to hide in the plant cuttings in the middle of the tank. He's breathing normally. He eats. He just seems to like to make his bed among the plants...unless it's feeding time.
Amanda

On the way home from a catfish convention I found this beauty behind the heater in a store. Too bad it was the last one (out of five).

Liosomadoras morrowi. A good find. I wish there were some shops overhere where they tugged fishes like that behind heaters .
Was the convention any good btw?

Marc van Arc wrote:Was the convention any good btw?

Very! H-G Evers talked about catfish collecting in Peru - mostly Loricariids, but also a beautiful undescribed Tatia which looked a lot like T. perugiae.
And I finally found some Aspidoras at the auction.
Plus the false jaguar, a very welcome bycatch!

A little bad news i'm afraid - my L.Oncinus has gone to the big fish tank in the sky...

Strange tale really, whilst redecorating all my fish were "in storage" at my LFS (mentioned in threads elsewhere). I brought some of them back the other week into the tanks i had prepared & had been running for a week (this included the Oncinus). The LFS had obviously looked after them well as they appeared in great health & my girlfriend remarked how well fed the oncinus looked - (i had my suspicions she was gravid). The oncinus & 5 S.Contractus were placed into one of the tanks which had extra bogwood in as i'd found a 'flat' piece which i positioned to allow concealment but still give me a clear view of the fish. They settled in without problem. I left on a sunday evening to get to a conference venue ready for a Monday event with everything fine. Upon my return 24 hours later i noticed the water looked a little cloudy. Closer examination showed all inhabitants has deceased & the substrate was littered with hundreds of eggs which also seemed to be blocking the intakes of the internal power filter. I can only assume that the Oncinus decided to drop her eggs in favourable conditions, which when unfertilised, started to decay causing pollution to the tankwater (coupled with the 'blockage' of the filter).

On the plus side (if you can call it that) i have a vacant tank now so will carefully consider what to have a go with next. There seem to be a few interesting doradids around at the moment & a few interesting tatia species as well - i'll keep you all posted

That's really too bad. Not only for the oncinus but also for the Syno contractus, which is one of the nicest synos imo. These are sad days apparently - see my own story in Speak Easy (Colomesus asellus thread).
However, it's good to read that you're thinking of some Doradids and Tatias. Especially because you once mentioned that you were not such an Auchenipterid fan. Tatias are very rewarding fish.
Talking of Tatia: I've found some T. intermedia fry today! Sorry, I know it's been said elsewhere, but I think it belongs in this thread (too).
Hope you don't mind Richard.

Hi!

Well Tatia cf creuzbergi has made it into one of my tanks!!!

;)
cheers
Yann

Hi Yann,
Is it the same species as the Cat-eLog has under or something else?

Hi!

Actually they look a lot like the real T. creuztbergi, but have some spots under the black line especially concentrated from the belly up to the tail!!

Cheers
Yann

Well, I'm sure someone like you with 114 pictures can make one or two more.
In other words: I'd love to see it

Yes pichurs

Hi Marc!!

don't worry it is planed to make some pic of them and some of the Trichomycterus I got along the way...

Cheers
Yann

Here are some more snaps of the .
They are becoming less timid bit by bit. However, they don't fancy open spaces and see to it that some cover is nearby.
As you can see they do like food

Marc

just to note i couldn't resist a new L.Oncinus as it was probably one of the nicest i've come across with slightly more unusual markings - i'll post a pic soon when i can find my camera.

I've also got my eye on the doradid Rhynchodoras Woodsi.

Anywat gotta go pick up the rest of my synos from the lfs now the painting is complete (although the diy is far from over......)

The Tatia perugiae female and one of the males are in a cave together. At first, they were chasing each other's tails in a circle, in the cave. Now it's quiet. They've been holed up in there together for 24 hours now. What do I do, if anything?
Amanda

bronzefry wrote: They've been holed up in there together for 24 hours now. What do I do, if anything?

Just let it go. There's no reason to interfere; they don't mind each others company. Overhere they share hiding places all the time. Cosy

Hi!

Here is a bad pic (low battery on the cam)
of my Tatia cf creutzbergi


cheers
Yann

Marc van Arc wrote:Just let it go. There's no reason to interfere; they don't mind each others company. Overhere they share hiding places all the time. Cosy

Just as I thought. Thanks, Marc!
Amanda

yannfulliquet wrote:Here is a bad pic (low battery on the cam)of my Tatia cf creutzbergi

Nice little fish. As you said before it doesn't look at all like the in the Cat-eLog.
Compared to the genuine it strikes me that the two white lateral lines seem less visible in your specimen. But perhaps the specimen pictured in the Cat-eLog were younger specimen or pictured in bright light (?). Your fish is pictured in a dark environment; that could explain the difference.

Hi!!

I will try to take better pictures once I ll have time and some in a light environement!!

Cheers
Yann

See

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSOPgFvRd8

See what?

link works fine here, but I use Firefox2.0 as browser

that is one big bad catfish, mate

looks positively scary

Trachycorystes trachycorystes?

I love it!
But it's much too short ...

Trachycorystes trachycorystes indeed.
The link works now, but it didn't yesterday. I got a complete different page then.
Anyway, it's nice - and short.

Here is an update on the jaguar catfish breeding project.
Some pictures of one being a typical woodcat or even a piece o wood:





I think I have three males and two females but I'm not that hot at sexing.
They will be being moved to my soon to be complete fish new fish hooss which I will be putting on another thread.
When I move them I will take photos/video and you guys can help me id them, if thats not to much trouble.

The trachy is big but not bad. After a small period of nottiness he/she has settled down and now lives quite happily with the jaguars some L47 a L350 two lima shovel noses three uaru two headstanders (soon to be moved) and the pseudorinelepis in the pchure.
On a totally unrelated note Batrochoglanis Villosus is the most boring catfish I have ever had. I have never seen him come out of his own volition.

Hi Groke,
How large are the jags? The genital papilla of the male develops "late". They should be 15 cms (6") or longer in order to properly sex them.