I noticed the same when I had a breeding group of this species. The spawning period was always from Oct/Nov to Feb/March. Outside the spawning they would lose the odontodes and I could always predict when spawning was going to start again from the reappearance of hairy tails.

@ Walter .... Thanks very much for your informative post. I purchased a group of Wild Caught L046 a few months ago from a from a very reputed pleco breeder/importer here in Toronto, Canada who assured me that it was legal to export Wild Caught L46 out of Brazil as long as the correct paperwork was ...

Walter wrote: ↑15 Nov 2017, 09:50 Do not buy wildcaught Zebras!

Thank you Walter! I couldn't agree more.

Eventually would seem to be now......... http://maaproject.org/2017/belo-monte/ What nature takes 1,000s upon 1,000s of years to create humans are able to destroy in under a decade...... This project is undoubtedly doing a lot of damage. However, we don't know whether it in itself will lead to the ...

The bottom line is that this species only occurs in Brazil and Brazil does not allow its export. Therefore, your LFS cannot claim that these are legally obtained WC H. zebra - there is no such thing. Also, how can they know the age of the fish if they are WC? Smells fishy to me... I'd ask to see the...

catfishchaos wrote: ↑03 Nov 2017, 13:47 Hi Panaque!

I have been looking through that group, to my untrained eye the best fit would be

Pseudomystus heokhuii

but I don’t know enough about the group to feel confident about that.

Me neither!

Have you looked at for the third one?

Not L306 Panaqolus claustellifer . That species has fewer bands on the body and bold stripes on the face that form a 'keyhole' (more or less) between the eyes (claustellifer means keyhole I believe). It is really quite distinctive. We have seen this particular picture before and @bekateen pointed us...

Wonderful report and photos, thanks for sharing

Jobro wrote: ↑14 Jun 2017, 11:45 Hey panaque,

can you tell me the size of your adults? What caves do they use for spawning? Clay or bamboo?

Thanks.

I'd say they are about 8-9 cm total length. I offered them two clay and two oak caves and they are only interested in the oak ones.

I have 4 wild adults, 3 males and 1 female. They remained colourful until they started breeding. Then the males' markings became less distinct but the female has kept her colours. They spawn regularly and the fry are stunning.

Many thanks for all your contributions! You will be missed.

Yes I've noticed this too. When you shine a torch into a female's cave to check on a brood they often make that sound.

What a shame. I hope you succeed next time. Wonderful photos though!

Nice. I acquired a group of these recently. Lovely fish. Please keep us posted!

Nice. I acquired a group of these recently. Lovely fish. Please keep us posted!

Just found this on the L-Welse page on L448 (http://www.l-welse.com/reviewpost/showp ... oduct/1566), in a series of photos showing the variation in this species:

Thanks all. Having observed the fish for a few days I am pretty certain it is the same species as the ones it came in with, which are either or but probably the latter. I'll revisit this thread with better pictures when they have all grown a bit.

Thanks Eric. I can see where everyone is coming from, saying 'Peckoltia'. However, I've kept several species of Panoqolus and Peckoltia over the years and I am certain this is a Panaqolus. For one, the eyes seem much too small for a Peckoltia at this size (4cm). So humor me, assume it is a Panaqolus...

Thanks for the responses. I am as sure as can be that it is not a Peckoltia but a Panaqolus. Seeing it next to the clown plecs it is identical in shape, size of the eye, mouth, fins, etc. I am veering towards it being an unusual clown plec individual, but open to alternative suggestions.

I found this striking Panaqolus in a tank of P. maccus (or P. sp L448). They had apparently all come in the same shipment. Is it an unusually patterned clown plec or another species? Opinions?
Apologies for crappy phone pics .

Cool, I hope it goes well
Some good information in this thread (and others by member "hoplo"):
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =6&t=21883

They all look male to me. Females have a noticeably smaller, daintier, head.

Apologies for now posting this sooner but I've been blissfully off-grid for the last three weeks.
Alongside the catfish were some other interesting fish, like this anabantoid Luciocephalus pulcher and this as yet nameless Nemacheilus loach

"44–45 vs. 49–56" for the anal fin ray count, no? So 50 would make it . Obviously I should have read the paper before I posted the first time!

@Silurus I just looked through your paper on Silurichthys ligneolus (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261438764_Silurichthys_ligneolus_a_new_catfish_Teleostei_Siluridae_from_southern_Borneo_Indonesia) and I wonder now whether my fish were Silurichthys phaiosoma instead. I base this on the sh...

Silurus wrote:The identifications of the two catfishes are correct.

Whoo! Thanks very much Silurus, as always.

Wow. What is going on there. Did it flood overnight or what? Yes, quite epic overnight storm. We had another one two days later and that bench with the boots on disapeared under water too. Since we spent much of our days wading through swamps anyway, a flooded camp didn't make that much difference ...

Jools wrote:Great to see that fish alive assuming the ID is correct.

Jools

Yes let's see what Silurus thinks. Happy for you to use photos of course. Here's another one of the Silurichthys I caught them at night, swimming at the surface right in the middle of our flooded camp

The last couple of weeks I have been on an expedition into forest on the left bank of the Sungai Rungan, Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The substrate there was peat of varying depth and the water in the streams was stained like tea with pH of 3.5 - 4. Unseasonally heavy rain caused flooding...