I apoligize to all for the use of word "breed" instead of species. :-X Thank you for your info Silurus . I guess the question should have been " at what point does a 'mixed/cross species' become reconized as a new species. :?: I know that some people prefer only nature's work of mixin...

I have a crossbreed of a tiger shovlenose and a redtail catfish, and I am wondering if crossbreeds are being given names or not. It has a shorter nose the a regular shovlenose, the markings of a shovlenose, but a rounder red tail. As I said are these just halfbreeds, or are they named. Are they like...

It is about 3", and less then 6months I would say. I got it about a 6 weeks ago at about 1.5" and it dissapeared. It reappeared yesterday when doing a check of all driftwood, decorations, and other object looking for strays, and excess meats( I feed lots of dew worms, and shrimp and look f...

Hi, the "sideburns" are in fact the interopercular odontodes (or something to that effect), the hooked form typical for Ancistrus. I'd go with A. cf. cirrhosus. If they are visible the whole time your fish has some kind of deformations, usually they can be retracted. The interopercular od...

I looked through all the L#'s and the LDA#'s and I think I have narrowed down the field for this baby. It's less then 6months old, and about 3inches, I picked it up because it looked unique. I am wondering if this is one of the undescribed genus. It has 8 spines in the dorsal, there'e no sign or any...

Looking through the Cat-elog, and doing lots of reading I got the impression that speciec of Plecos with 8 spines in the sailfin were rarer then those with 10 or more. Since reading this I have watched at all the stores I visit for this feature on plecos. One store yesterday recieved a shipment of c...

Looking at all the advice *thank you all*. I'm going to leave it in the treated tank for a week, then gently move it to my Juvy tank where I keep my fish that are not ready for mixing with the adults. Since most of these are smaller midddle of the tank type fish it should be okey there. Thanks again...

I found what I beleive to be an LDA 38 Hypostomus plecostomoides (8 spines split at the ends) I spent 20 min watching this guy to make sure the sail was what I believed. It was sold as a common. However when I got it home I found that when the store caught it for me that its sail got split all the w...

Hi. Last year i stumbled upon 2 very good filter media's, The first are the industrial scrub pads (their callesd a doodlebug here) these are made of a dripped plastic and 3/4' thick and hold way more then a spondge (brown, blue, red) are course, medium, and fine( any janitorial cleaning store has th...

I have about 25 pleco 10 different species from the very common to a few rare. About 15 of these are juvies (under 3"0 in 1 tank) but the rest are adults ranging in size from 8" - 15"(Dino a large commom)spread out in my other tanks. They keep my tanks clean and are fun to watch with ...

I'm keeping them in a separate 20gal tank, while I do some reshearch, there are many different opinions on how to keep them, and what communities to put them in, there is also many opinions of keeping them in freash water. At least now I don't feel so dumb. I got 2 ID sharks 12 & 14" for fr...

I guess a little about myself, I started getting fish for my pond, Gold fish, Koi and a couple of albino cats, about two yrs ago. With time i have started looking for exotic's mostly cats and pleckos with a few types of eel's and several other different, species, I now have a 1000gal pond,8 tanks to...

I luck into purchasing a Hypostomus pleco, the only problem is whats the actual species. I tried researching myself, and narrowed it down to Hypostomus plecostomoides, Hypostomus robinii, Hypostomus micromaculatus, or Hypostomus cordovae. I tried 'whats my catfish', and the moderator agreed with me,...

Unfortunatley the store I got it from said it was a drop off from another customer, so the catch location is totally unknown. The only thing I can figure since I'm in Toronto Canada, it had to be mixed with some common inports, sold, returned, then sold again. So what do I do flip a coin, to list a ...

I have 10 clarias in different tanks due to their size. In my 120 I have 4 from 7-14 inchs. One of the albino has gone a yellowy gold colour, any Ideas why. I have heard that different things regarding keeping clarias and lungfish in the same tank (they'll kill each other to there should be no probl...

In Ontario Canada $39- $150. depending on the byer or seller. These are prices I have seen in stores.

Is there any kind of stress. I have notices some of my fish seem to loose or change colour if they are stressed, if I see this happening I try to find the cause of the stress. It could be something as simple as another fish moving to close to "their territory".

Hello don't ask me why by many fish do this. I have a 120gal, with 4 different cat species including 3 Irrdesent sharks and several non cat species. There is one spot in the tank that almost every fish in the tank does that dive and rub.. No other spot in the tank, just this one spot, and that inclu...

I lucked into what I believe is a Hypostmus plecko. I was being sold as a common sailfin, untill I noticed the 8 spine dorsel fin. Going through the various species I have it down to I think, Hypostomus plecostomoides, Hypostomus robinii, Hypostomus micromaculatus , or Hypostomus cordovae . I do not...

I have three eel catfish, however they apear different then the pics shown on the facts page. Over the time that I have had my fish (since Nov/06)I have foud them to be air breathers as apposed to water breathers. they have no gills, and must surface to take a breath. I have seen them go for an hour...