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I went to the lfs today and picked up a "rubber mouthed pleco" but looking on the site I've decided that it's a Chaetostoma milesi. Aside from the brief profile in the cat-elog I can't find any information about it on the internet. Does anyone know if it's an uncommon species of Chaetostoma (unlikely coming from a superpet) or merely uninteresting?

Tá Mé Páedrig wrote: Does anyone know if it's an uncommon species of Chaetostoma (unlikely coming from a superpet) or merely uninteresting?

Think I don't quite understand that sentence (my unperfect english!) - nevertheless, I keep four of Chaetostoma milesi and they are the first ones I could get to spawn two month ago. They live in a river-tank with havy flood and a temperature of 21°C.
Klaus

Although C. milesi is a little less common, it's not that rare a fish. The husbandry requirements for Chaetostoma are mostly similar (cool, well-oxygenated water) and they are not uninteresting fish (just that they do not have particularly striking color patterns).
They can be somewhat territorial, though.

Actually on further inverstigation I believe that it's a Chaetostoma cf. thomsoni It has spots only on it's head and really prominent stripes from the armour.

Do you know what the cf. stands for?

The use of cf. in species names has been covered in this post.

Oh cool, so there's the meaning, do you know what word it stands for? aff. too.

Hi!

Cf: confer
aff: affinis

Cheers
Yann

Cool, thanks!

Has anyone ever known these bulldog catfishes to jump? It's alone in an uncovered 13L tank with lots of rocks, an amazon sword (Echinodorus bleheri) and plenty of natural rocks. Oh and really good filtration, it cycles the entire tank in just over a minute.

Given that they show a very strong preference for hugging the substrate, I don't think it's very likely that they are jumpers. I have never seen bulldog plecos jump on any of the three separate occasions I've kep them (once in a partiarlly-covered tank).