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Guys,

Anyone fancy writing a catfish of the month article? Have you been keeping a species not already featured (list here) and could write up some notes on it as well as any missing cat-elog info?

I am really struggling for time this month and possibly next one two.

If this is something you can do, please reply here with any questions or indeed commitment to producing some lines for a particualr species. It'll likely be several days before I have time to write on myself.

Cheers,

Jools

If you can use this, http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =5&t=21294, I woukld be hounored

Bas Pels wrote:If you can use this, http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =5&t=21294, I woukld be hounored

Well, it would need a little more work and, key point, I am not sure what species of is being discussed. Do you have photos we can add if the species is determined?

Jools

Jools,

Shockingly there isn't a COTM on the most commonly kept catfish of all.....

The common pleco,

I might be able able to knock something up this evening. Nothing fancy though.

Interested?

Jools,
I'll give Corydoras lamberti a try.
Amanda

bronzefry wrote:Jools,
I'll give Corydoras lamberti a try.
Amanda

That'd be great, thanks.

Jools

I was surprised to find Phylonemus typus not there, but there is also Ancistrus claro or Microsynodontis sp.1

I would be comfortable to give any of these a try...you chose

Birger

Edit...no breeding info for the micro syno, could save that one for later

Birger wrote:I was surprised to find Phylonemus typus not there, but there is also Ancistrus claro or Microsynodontis sp.1

I would be comfortable to give any of these a try...you chose

Birger

Edit...no breeding info for the micro syno, could save that one for later

I prefer to feature described species for CotM article. sidguppy was always going to do one on and , although it's a fish I've kept and a great species to write about, is a loricariid and there are quite a lot of them featured already!

So, if you could write about , that would be great. I'd also say that, especially because February is a short month and a busy one for me, two or three CotM's ahead of time would really help me as I can just plug them in on the 1st day of the month and spend what time i do have on the site attending to other things (like the enhancements to "my cats" that I've been meaning to do for months).

Many thanks,

Jools

Jools,

Rusty has my photos of both the Phyllonemus holding and of the fry. Feel free to use any that you like. He has them on his laptop and can give to you next week at the CSG Convention.

Mark

I don't think I saw the brown bullhead or the tadpole madtom on that list, perhaps I missed them. If not I can do articles on those.

Hi Jools!!

I could eventually write down a bit of my experience with Trichomycterus

Cheers
Yann

racoll wrote:Jools,

Shockingly there isn't a COTM on the most commonly kept catfish of all.....

The common pl*co,

Pterygoplichthys pardalis

I might be able able to knock something up this evening. Nothing fancy though.

Interested?

Yes, although this would be a big one. I mean, the whole mass produced in Singapore thing, why it's a great fish but not a great fish and all that. But, yes, it would be a good one.

Jools

Sandtiger wrote:I don't think I saw the brown bullhead or the tadpole madtom on that list, perhaps I missed them. If not I can do articles on those.

Either would be good, especially if breeding info available?

Jools

yannfulliquet wrote:I could eventually write down a bit of my experience with Trichomycterus

That sounds interesting, what species?

Jools

Amanda's CotM is now online, so a big thanks for that! Anyone else still interested in writing one means that the time pressure is now off, but the 1st of March is coming fast...

Jx

but the 1st of March is coming fast...

Already started putting notes together

Birger

I will probably be able to write something but how good it'll be & which species is an unknown at this point - Jools , when i submit it feel free to use if you think it is any good, or discard it if not up to the mark

Yes, although this would be a big one. I mean, the whole mass produced in Singapore thing, why it's a great fish but not a great fish and all that. But, yes, it would be a good one.

Jools

I'll give it a go. Looks like you're sorted for the year for COTMs!

Jools, I'd like to do . I could provide some nice pics for it. How does one go about submitting a draft? Just email it to you?

Chrysichthys wrote:Jools, I'd like to do

Synodontis filamentosus

. I could provide some nice pics for it. How does one go about submitting a draft? Just email it to you?

Yes, please.

Jools

racoll wrote:Looks like you're sorted for the year for COTMs!

Amanda has already come through, but I know from expereience that promises of articles are different from quality articles arriving in your inbox. I'm looking forward to all these pledges coming through!

There's a second benefit, simply that what time I have on the site can then be spent on more technical things.

Jools

Jools wrote: Amanda has already come through, but I know from expereience that promises of articles are different from quality articles arriving in your inbox. I'm looking forward to all these pledges coming through!

Ahhhh I knew there was something i had forgotten to finish!.... I havnt forgotten i still owe you an article Jools, just been a tad busy down here!

Well, keep 'em coming. I have one good article for next month and lots of promises - so get writing!

Jools

now I am just sittin back and relaxin
anyone care to join in ?

Just finished mine. It is in the post!

Sandtiger wrote:I don't think I saw the brown bullhead or the tadpole madtom on that list, perhaps I missed them. If not I can do articles on those.

Either would be good for different reasons. Is this perhaps something you could do over the weekend?


Jools

I could do

Otocinclus flexilis

.

Is there an "instructions for authors" for CotM?

Mike_Noren wrote:I could do

Otocinclus flexilis

.

Is there an "instructions for authors" for CotM?

That would be really good indeed.

There isn't really an instruction. The general format is to talk about the one species (as opposed to a group or genus) and to try and get across as much first hand experience as possible. Many authors also talk about telling them apart from similar species and breeding info if available. If there is any catelog data sheet information missing or needing updated then that should be identified too. There is no maximum length, the minimum would be a few paragraphs.

Jools