Now, if we could figure out how to grow zucchini out of our aquariums!
-Shane
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- 10 Aug 2023, 15:23
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: New emergent plant experiments
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10893
- 08 Aug 2023, 20:36
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Meet Chewy
- Replies: 40
- Views: 17691
Re: Meet Chewy
Chewy is going through her annual shed. Picked these odontodes up from the substrate during water changes today.
Keep in mind these are as hard as teeth and could easily be used as a sewing needle.
-Shane
Keep in mind these are as hard as teeth and could easily be used as a sewing needle.
-Shane
- 06 Aug 2023, 20:25
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Surprise rubberlip in pet store
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7248
Re: Surprise rubberlip in pet store
CateLog is still down. Once up I'll do some cross checking. I am pretty sure I have photoed this fish in the past.
My working theory is C. chimu as it is collected alongside the other sp you have.
-Shane
My working theory is C. chimu as it is collected alongside the other sp you have.
-Shane
- 06 Aug 2023, 13:30
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Surprise rubberlip in pet store
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7248
Re: Surprise rubberlip in pet store
Eric,
Can you get a pic against a dark background or after they are settled?
-Shane
Can you get a pic against a dark background or after they are settled?
-Shane
- 05 Aug 2023, 16:23
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: New emergent plant experiments
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10893
Re: New emergent plant experiments
Currently spawning black neon tetras. It is 90% rain water and 10% tap. Hoping to transfer the fry in time to do a bleeding heart tetra spawn before fall.Nice. Do you have fish in there?
This plant also works great but I forget the name. Grows nice roots in water
-Shane
- 05 Aug 2023, 14:22
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: New emergent plant experiments
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10893
Re: New emergent plant experiments
A little different, but my outdoor Uganda papyrus biotope.
-Shane
-Shane
- 02 Aug 2023, 19:11
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Brigs fishing Team
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8104
Re: Brigs fishing Team
Found that his actual LLC is registered in Delrey Beach, so he is not far from you Viktor. Also found this https://www.cruisingfreedom.com/bass-fishing-productions/ "Bass Fishing Productions has come under intense social media controversy for their fake ‘pet store dumpster rescue’ stunts. While...
- 02 Aug 2023, 14:48
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Brigs fishing Team
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8104
Re: Brigs fishing Team
I get that many of these are escapee populations from fish farms and that he may catch the occasional fish released by irresponsible aquarists... But L330? Can't see someone dumping a fish that expensive and they are not captive bred in Florida fish farms. It's a shame his collecting techniques are ...
- 01 Aug 2023, 15:44
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Rhyacoglanis aff. pulcher (nope, they're Pseudopimelodus) from the Rio Huallaga
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15436
Re: Rhyacoglanis aff. pulcher from the Rio Huallaga
Congrats Eric!
-Shane
-Shane
- 01 Aug 2023, 15:43
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Platydoras armatulus: gill operculums folded
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5377
Re: Platydoras armatulus: gill operculums folded
My initial "medication" if I note something out of the ordinary is always a water change. I have found water changes often do more good than using medications without a concrete diagnosis. I keep my tank stocking levels low and all tanks get a 40-50% water change every 7 days. I see two po...
- 01 Aug 2023, 15:31
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Brigs fishing Team
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8104
Brigs fishing Team
This young man (Brigs?) posts You Tube videos of himself collecting exotic tropical fish in ponds and ditches in Florida. A video came up today on my Facebook feed showing him collecting Pangasius (adults and juveniles) as well as a Synodontis sp and a Pseudomystus sp. Was anyone aware of these catf...
- 31 Jul 2023, 15:51
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Platydoras armatulus: gill operculums folded
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5377
Re: Platydoras armatulus: gill operculums folded
The most common cause of this condition is low O2/ high CO2 levels and/or high levels of ammonia. I would suggest a series of water changes to confirm this is not the case before trying any medications. The damage can be permanent but often the fish live out healthy lives. There are times when this ...
- 26 Jul 2023, 22:14
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Rio Itaya black Rineloricaria lanceolata spawned
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6772
Re: Rio Itaya black Rineloricaria lanceolata spawned
Looking great!
-Shane
-Shane
- 20 Jul 2023, 14:44
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Biotope information about Corydoras panda, please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4434
Re: Biotope information about Corydoras panda, please
Welcome, I have not collected in the Rio Pachitea, but have collected in other Andean piedmont rivers and they all share similar characteristics. In the rainy season they carry high volumes of water and become white water rivers due to the massive amounts of sediment coming down from the Andes. In t...
- 12 Jul 2023, 11:16
- Forum: Asian Catfishes
- Topic: Same but different?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7404
Re: Same but different?
Was the type series collected from both drainages?
-Shane
-Shane
- 11 Jul 2023, 21:00
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Various corydoras
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3855
Re: Various corydoras
This might help.
-Shane
-Shane
- 11 Jul 2023, 02:06
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: An interesting Cory paper.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3071
An interesting Cory paper.
Another find today in the files.
-Shane
-Shane
- 11 Jul 2023, 02:04
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Catfish L
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4393
Catfish L
The origins of it all. Found while filing papers today.
-Shane
-Shane
- 07 Jul 2023, 21:39
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Remineralizing salt for Amazonian catfish
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5653
Re: Remineralizing salt for Amazonian catfish
I am skeptical of "remineralizing." I have a chart of tap water/rainwater mixes capturing pH and GH from 90% tap and 10% rain to 90% rain and 10% tap. Works for me. I would never do 100% rainwater except to hatch very sensitive eggs. Just too easy to crash the pH.
-Shane
-Shane
- 07 Jul 2023, 14:38
- Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
- Topic: Phylogenetic revision of Lasiancistrus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4014
Re: Phylogenetic revision of Lasiancistrus
Need to get access to this. We have Cat e log rearranging to do.
Under are photos of Lasiancistrus I collected in the Magdalena.
-Shane
Under are photos of Lasiancistrus I collected in the Magdalena.
-Shane
- 05 Jul 2023, 14:13
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Total tank losses are never welcome, but they still happen
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11383
Re: Total tank losses are never welcome, but they still happen
On tanks with an exposed side I write there. Thought some might find this funny. About a year of water changes.
Who said, "One more bucket and the farce is complete."
-Shane
Who said, "One more bucket and the farce is complete."
-Shane
- 03 Jul 2023, 11:30
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Total tank losses are never welcome, but they still happen
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11383
Re: Total tank losses are never welcome, but they still happen
So sorry Eric. I have done the same thing. Now I add Prime immediately after draining a tank (before moving on to the next one) and use a dry erase marker to write a big "P" on the front glass. This way, when I start filling I can see that the tank was dosed. As I am often draining and fil...
- 28 Jun 2023, 11:09
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Meet Chewy
- Replies: 40
- Views: 17691
Re: Meet Chewy
Jeanne, Throughout Africa the most common wood used for dugout canoes is teak. Iron wood would not work as it is so dense that it sinks in water (hence why I collect it for aquariums). Other than Chewy eating it... the wood lasts forever in the aquarium. I have pieces that have been in tanks since 2...
- 21 Jun 2023, 14:17
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Policing the scientific lexicon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5506
Re: Policing the scientific lexicon
My comments were less about the paper's argument than the fact that such a debate has even crept in to the scientific community's published literature. Agree with Bas that the entire thing is a bit language based. English lends itself to a PC vocabulary that other languages (especially Romance langu...
- 14 Jun 2023, 12:42
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Policing the scientific lexicon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5506
Re: Policing the scientific lexicon
This is so silly that I would have assumed it was tongue in cheek humor.
-Shane
-Shane
- 12 Jun 2023, 10:49
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Pet Pleco
- Replies: 2
- Views: 614
Re: Pet Pleco
Great looking fish.
-Shane
-Shane
- 07 Jun 2023, 12:42
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Meet Chewy
- Replies: 40
- Views: 17691
Re: Meet Chewy
This is a piece of South African black iron wood I collected near Kruger. It is one of the hardest woods on the planet, but Chewy can make short work of it. Now you know why one common name for Panaque is Coma Canoa (canoe eater). You can easily see how a Panaque could sink a dugout canoe.
-Shane
-Shane
- 03 Jun 2023, 21:10
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Corydoras delphax
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3406
- 02 Jun 2023, 13:01
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Unidentified Lamontichthys
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1977
Re: Unidentified Lamontichthys
Very interesting. Looks more like a Sturisoma type in these photos, but not any species I have ever collected alongside L. llanero. Need to get Norman's opinion.
-Shane
-Shane
- 01 Jun 2023, 14:41
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: My first Microglanis aff. poecilus spawn
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13464
Re: Amblydoras nauticus spawned
Eric, Two things: Reading up on raising rarer tetra spawns (also egg scatterers) I have come across two pieces of information that you might want to experiment with. Light sensitivity is a well known issue with tetra eggs and newly hatched fry. We don't talk about light sensitivity much with catfish...