Hi- I've found conflicting information on the internet regarding Synodontis and their dorsal/pectoral fin spines. I was under the impression that they did have poisonous spines, although a few web hits suggested that they weren't, so I'd be interested if anyone can help (apologies if there's an old ...

I have to vacuum the gravel/rinse out filter sponges every four days for my Panaque maccus/P. nigrolineatus , and still had problems with the gravel going anaerobic. Reducing the depth of substrate has substantially increased water quality, but I still need to remove all the decor every 3 weeks or s...

depending on the direction of the lighting, she had a very bright, light blue (metallic) sheen all over. This is a long shot, but I'm assuming it wasn't direct sunlight falling on the fish? (probably unlikely as it was in an LFS). My common bristlenose look really metallic-shiny (sometimes blue, so...

That blows the 2-3" claim from the LFS owner out of the water then! S. euptera grow like lightning up to about 6" before they start to slow down, if mine and Andywoolloo's are representative (mine didn't start as small as yours- it was about 2" long when I got it).

I agree with Mats- nigriventris is most likely.

Lloydy wrote:I don't have anything which would record the decibel reading but my main TV is in the same room as the tank and I had to turn the TV up because the filter was drowning out the sound!

I have to watch DVDs with subtitles on, due to the sound of water gushing from the filters!

from that picture I'd say you're right- they don't appear to be spots.

My fish certainly have no spots on the join between the fin and the body, so I don't think they are L338. Clicking on the picture of your male (to increase resolution), it looks like there MIGHT be some evidence 3 or 4 spots around the pectoral insertion (just on the fin membrane, not on the body),...

Is there relatively little water movement in the fry-saver? I'm wondering if there's a slight protein/oil slick on the water surface, which the fry would detect as food. My bristlenose don't feed like this, but whenever I unplug the filter to do a water change, my apple snails all start feeding upsi...

Thanks Mats- I'd not noticed that most pictures were Ingo's :oops: . For L088, not counting the fry, I think there's only one adult male pictured (1, 4 and 5), and three (I assume) subadult males (2, 3 and 8)- that blue-eyed male looks strikingly different. I know camera flashes can sometimes distor...

I thought they had a band on the dorsal too, but looking closely last night, I couldn't see one - I'm sure they used to have it.... Granted they're not your fish, but the fish pictured by Unungy have a very slight suggestion of a pale band at the dorsal fin margin, at least in some fish (I'm not co...

I'm not sure how diagnostic it is, but L088 seem to lose the light border on the caudal fin with age, whereas L338 retain it- Mats' pictures appear to be of mature fish. Don't take that as definitive though!

Do the "fake" L144 have the same blue eyes as the real ones? I've seen a lot of these fish come up at fish auctions in the past year- Mark Walters suggested the blue eyes showed that they were the real deal, but I'm not sure how reliable that is.

Marc van Arc wrote:Cool! Nice pattern (by Mother Nature). Cute. Small. Adorable!
The car that goes with it is this:

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To me that car looks like a cetopsid

I propose Synodontis robertsi ... I don't think I've ever seen this one offered for sale, so I'm not familiar with it, but based purely on the CateLog entry, I'd say cool- very pretty but not too overstated small enough for medium-sized tanks riverine syno rather than a Tang looks like a fish I'd h...

Hi- Id be very nervous about keeping any cory with clown loach, even if theyre small (sorry missing apostrophes because it wont let me put them in for some reason!)- loaches are much pushier than corys.

I thought that the photography was top-notch, but I was seriously underwhelmed with the script for the narrative.

Do you not think pygmaeus are pretty? I'm not sure if you're directing that at the original poster or me Richard- I left it out because the OP seemed underwhelmed with them. I think they're a pretty but frustrating cory- put them on their own with lots of cover and they hide and sulk, but put a dit...

Whilst I know a couple of people that successfully keep Aspidoras without particularly assiduous husbandry, they are supposed to be more sensitive to water quality than most species of Corydoras , which would make me a bit nervous about putting them in such a small community tank. Richard's suggesti...

My euptera got mystery white circular/oval patches on her belly last year- after several days of head-scratching I eventualy worked out these were heater burns caused by a heater having become dislodged (that I hadn't spotted). It's unlikely to be the same thing but worth considering.

Middling for me- neither cool nor uncool, just shading towards cool: cool attributes: peculiar backward shuffling method of locomotion rather than swimming anywhere- maybe characteristic of "Panaquolus" quite an attractive "bulky" shape, even in males pretty but not overstated co...

thanks Steve- my typing and reading weren't in synch!

Just watching this now (via iPlayer).

Are the "neanderfish" (no such thing on Google) really Cornish Jack (Mormyrops anguillicaudes)?
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Species ... hp?id=2394

I've got this as well- wasn't sure if it was just the ancient software we'd got at work, which seems to throw up a new issue for a week or so and then go away.

I've not got H. littorale, but in both Megalechis thoracata and Callichthys callichthys the orange is pretty much permanent (at least in my males)- although sometimes the pectoral spine appears brighter than others, it's always orange.

The worry is when someone posts something negative and we don't know if its either perfectly valid or slanderous. It'd need tight moderation for that, but as a general thing I think it'd be OK. My local club has a "What's in the Shops" section, but the problem is that we have to be so car...

I gave up a few weeks after my female became blind/partially blind, and moved them back to the 5' tank for a rest. If I try again it needs to be in a tank with easier access to it than the one I chose :oops: . I've still got 8 of the original 9 fish- one was found almost dead one evening, whereas sh...

And my other great interest apart from fish... Moto GP. Watch every race, have been to see a few at Donington, seriously considering going to see one in Italy for the atmosphere. I've been to lots of car races at Donington (F3000/F2/F3/European Touring Cars/World Sportscars plus the 93 European GP ...

Probably the best aquatic outlet we have in S Yorks, not that well advertised I only discovered it last year and only live 6 miles away. Snap- it's also about 6 miles from me, plus it was the first shop to sponsor our local aquarist society. I don't get in very often due to never having any free ta...

43, male, assistant management accountant (but failed would-be academic- First class honours degree in Marine Biology, PhD in goby systematics, but only 3 publications). I got interested in aquatic zoology through my father's interest in fishing- I caught my first fish (probably without much skill!)...