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Hi all
my name is Colin and I live in Malta.

I have recently found this site while searching for info on a catfish I have. It was sold as a "Royal Sailfin Pleco" - he could have said his royal highness and I would have known no better.

From the catalogue it looks like the gibby but also looks like a common pleco.

How do I tell them apart ?

Hi,
You can tell them apart by looking at the dorsal fin.G. gibbiceps has a high dorsal fin while the common pleco has a short dorsal fin.

Hi Colin. Welcome.









Graeme.

Hi Colin.

I'm also new to the site. Am learning loads, so cheers guys and gals.
My catfish collection currently consists of 1 panaque, 1 peckoltia (looks more like LDA01 on the cat-elog) and one syno. eupterus.

Hi Colin,

Welcome

Ian

Welcome Colin and hyde

Thanks for the welcome . From what I have seen it is a gibby. The Sail is as high as it's head is long.

Nice to be in such a helpful and friendly site.

I saw some golden plecos for sale today - each about 5" long - any comments

Hello,

I'm a nembie also, not only to the site, but to the hobby.

I would like to setup a Jack Dempsey tank and I'm looking for someone to clean up the mess?

Any suggestions?

TIA

Oh yeah! I'm looking for something to keep in 55 gal.

I'm sure your Questions will be answered in the proper topic forum






Graeme.

Royal wrote:I would like to setup a Jack Dempsey tank and I'm looking for someone to clean up the mess?

Get a Synodontis or two. Most medium sized species will fit in with the JD all you need to give them is a cave each.

Jools

colin wrote: I saw some golden pl*cos for sale today - each about 5" long - any comments

Welcome to the forum...If by golden you mean L-14 Goldie/Sunshine I say get it if you have the room. I think that is one of the best looking plecos out there.

colin wrote:I saw some golden pl*cos for sale today - each about 5" long - any comments

Colin,

Plecos belong to the family Loricariidae from South America. I think you might get a better response if you try asking around in that forum.



Jools

Hi.

I´m a new member on this forum, but not new to the hobby. I "inherited" the interest from my dad and his friends. Catfish has always been my favourite kind of fish and i´m currently into south american species, pimelodids and doradids etc. I´m also on the lookout for a new and larger tank, and I walk around at home, fantasizing about how i will display my new tank, making wish-lists of new species and so on (this is really almost as fun as to go and buy it all). My current catfishes are (if anyone is interested):
Agamyxis pectinifrons
Acanthodoras sp? (not sure if it´s spinossissimus or cataphractus)
Microglanis sp
Pimelodella pictus
Trachelyichthys exilis
Liosomadoras sp (kind of morrowi but i´m not sure)
Ancistrus ranunculus
Ancistrus sp
Panaqolus sp (the LFS called it Peckoltia brevis)

see ya on the forum
TalenT

TalenT: I do the same thing... Make lists and budgets on stuff I won't afford, and I can't house in the immediate future... I dream of all the species I want to breed, of what combinations I can have in the tanks and so on...

Can you recomend any good shops in Ã?stersund? I'll probably be passing through there in a couple of days...

König Löwe

The best store in my opinion is the one on Frösön, the guy there is quite interested in catfish himself and they know a lot more about fish than the store in the central part of �stersund.
just go to Frösön and follow the signs to Frösö centrum and you'll get to the lfs.

good luck
Andy

Yes, I have to agree with Andy, the LFS on Frösön is the best in �stersund. By the way, have you been to Piteå? I was there this weekend and in one of the fish-stores I bought some equipment for very very low prices. which was nice.

Andy. Did you get my message?

Im also a new member at the forum, but have used the site since I bought my first catfish almost 2 years ago.Now I have 7 HZ in their own tank hoping for some breeding. In my other three tanks I keep discus and catfish. My catfish at the time are: 2 L014, 2 LDA33, 2 L114, 2 L260, 2 L007, 2 L047, 4 L190, 4 L262, 2 L030, 2 L270, and now Im waiting for 2 L273 that I have ordered. Started the zebra tank about 2 months ago, but no succses yet.
kønig: about the LFS in �stersund. They have two stores, one in �stersund and the one in Frøsøn. Paid a visit to both two weeks ago, in �stersund they had one L047 and some cory cats. In Frøsøn they had some corys and two Liosomodora. Frøsøn is the best of these two.

Robert

well I will just say I am new here too. I currently have a pictus and a us native species I am looking to identify.

well I will just say I am new here too. I currently have a pictus and a us native species I am looking to identify.

Post a picture in the Identification forum and we'll help. If not, a good description might do.

Thanks, all I can give is a desciption though.

Or you can browse the Cat-eLog under the family Ictaluridae and look for a match with your fish.