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Sorry to hear about your deaths. The adult looks like an L270 to me. Hopefully they'll be a few more babies in there. Not sure about the young one. It could be either at that size. Geoff will have a better idea than me.

The magazine looks fantastic. Very professional

stunning pics :thup:

the one tonight was a reasonable shake. I was in the fish room and water was slooshing about in the tanks and almost spilling. Still I guess its nothing compared to what Christchurch has had.

yeah I agree I guess they have a similar shape and pattern but quite different beasts. As L.A. says head standers (Family Anostomidae) include Anostomus spp., and others such as Leporinus spp. (eg. banded leporinus) and the marbled headstander (Abramites hypselonotus), while pencil fishes (Lebiasinidae) include Nannostomus sp. and a few others.

Awesome. Congratulations

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For the pleco nerds out there I just saw this post on Planet Catfish. Flash pleco's or Peru striped Panaques (L204) have been given a scientific name: Panaqolus albivermis. Reference: Lujan, NK, S Steele & M Velasquez, 2013. A new distinctively banded species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the western Amazon Basin in Peru. Zootaxa 3961: 192–198.

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I agree. I use JBL and Hikari for plecos.

Eheim are great pumps but I found that the ?nylon outlet that you join the air hose to tends to start coming apart after a while. It should be a stainless fitting. Other than that a great pump and very quiet. I also sit mine on t-towels to make them even quieter. :lol:

you could use small hydroponic pots. The the roots and I assume the runners can grow through the holes in the pots into the substrate. I have done this with my tiger lotus and it works well. The odd time I've had to move the plants I just pulled the pot out and trim the roots outside it and replanted them. It works fine but the pots may be higher than your substrate.

:cophot: Great pics and a nice job.

I'll be there for the whole weekend. Looking forward to it and thanks Paul for the airport pickup.

I was at Wetpets in Palmy on the weekend and they had six small ones

Nice pics. According to the Baensch catfish atlas vol. 1 the situation with these three forms is not that straight forward. Both Parotocinclus sp. 'PERNAMBUCO' and Parotocinclus sp. 'RECIFE' are very similar and both are caught with P. jumbo. They call what is called P. spilosoma in the trade Parotocinclus sp. 'RECIFE', and suggest that P. spilosoma may be something different. Its all very confusing but you have either P. spilosoma (or Parotocinclus sp. 'RECIFE') or Parotocinclus sp. 'PERNAMBUCO'. Apparently Parotocinclus sp. 'PERNAMBUCO' is stockier and the yellow bits are more linear and dispersed.

I had one seed pod open in the tank and ended up with a carpet of small plants. They were choking each other and I had plenty of pups so I gravel vacced them out. They shouldn't be to hard to germinate but they might take a while to grow to full size.

Fair enough. You have a better idea than us of the markings. Its hard to tell from your head shot. I was saying Parotocinclus sp. `PERNAMBUCO` as this species is caught with jumbos and exported with them. Parotocinclus sp. `PERNAMBUCO`, Parotocinclus sp. `RECIFE` and Parotocinclus spilosoma all look fairly similar in markings. Either way its a cool looking pleco. It might be worth getting your LFS store to ask the importer if he has any more gold flecked fish in stock. You might be able to get another one or two and have a crack at breeding them.

+1 for kingfish

I've just looked up Parotocinclus in the Baensch catfish atlas vol. 1. Apparently the undescribed species Parotocinclus sp. "Pernambuco" is caught with Pitbulls but is much rarer. It's on Planet Catfish http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/spe ... ies_id=899. I suspect this is what you have Liam. Cool fish and hopefully more than one came in, including a male.

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It certainly looks like one. Nice find :thup:

No worries. I'll let you know if they flower.

awesome occy and a cool pic

welcome