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Hi all,

I'm asking this for somebody from a dutch forum. He has 3 cat's like this one: http://members.chello.nl/p.tilborgh/lnr/

He doesn't know what species it is, so that's why i'm asking here. I think it's a LDA 44, because the keeper says that his male looks like a species mentioned in the aqualog-book: http://www.aquaforum.nl/gallery/upload/marslda44.jpg

Is there anybody who can tell me if i'm correct that this is a lda 44, or if it's another species ancistrus?

anyway thanks!

could do with a better pic looks like L045 to me but im no expert.

Ok, so the only thing that I could tell from that picture is that it's a Ancistrus or near relative, and that it's probably not the "common" variety, since there's some white on the tail wher the common ones doesn't have it.

A pictur where the fish is a little bit more easy to distinguish from the background would help quite a bit.

Also, when taking a photo of a fish that turns out to be a small portion of a large photo, it's a good idea to crop it down (cutting away the bits of picture that doesn't show the fish). Most common photo-editing software can do this...

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Mats

Thank you both for the answers. I'll ask the keeper of the fish if he will try to take some better pictures.

Here is the owner of the catfish, (tuti thanks)

I got some new pics, these are a lott better. If you click on the link below the photo you can see the big size.


The Male
Big size photo


The Male again
Big size photo


1 of the Female's
Big size photo


1 of the Female's again
Big size photo

Hope this brings more...

Hi!

Are they wild caught?
Any idea of the origin?
it could be but really ain't sure about it!

Cheers
Yann

Don't know any thing about this fish.
But I don't think it's a wild catch.

Normal price was 14 euro's
(I got 1 male, and 2 female's for 25 euro)

My lfs would search for the real name, but no succes till today.

wild Ancistrus can be fairly cheap though.

it's the "L_numbers" like Baryancistrus (goldnugget), Hypancistrus (Zebra plec and others), Acanthicus spp and Pseudacanthicus spp that demand a whopping pricetag.

I've seen excellent Ancistrus dolichopterus (the true one with the white bands) for about 7,50E-12,50E, and even the rare Ancistrus ranunculus for 17,50E......

so if your LFS is one of those good old 'reasonable priced' LFS, you might very well have a true wildcaught Ancistrus on your hands, despite the low price

So now the option are:

LDA-44
L-045
LDA-72
Or the sp3

Anybody?

*Kick*

it looks like a ancistrus sp3 to me, how old is he ??

For husbandry purposes, I'd definitely say .

If the plan is to breed it, I'd be a bit more careful - we don't need any more confusion in the ancestry of by mixing species.

I'd like to see:
1. A picture with the dorsal fin up.
2. A picture of it's natural (non-stress) colouration, preferrably in natural light (no flash).

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Mats