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  1. Golden Bristlenose with a black eye

    in Catfish

    Posted

    i thought the spots were the result from them being crossed with normal bns in the past.

    few years ago the goldens were just that, golden.

    My imported GBA from 5 years? ago have had descendents that have had black dots/splotches

    I think it comes down to the "debate" about Albino being pigmentless

    Golden being "normal" without the brown pigment

    and "normal" being, well, golden with brown pigment (if you see what I mean).

    I see the dots / splotches very much the same as a birth mark.

    There is a small amout of discussion in this thread also

    http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=44186

    Geoff

  2. Golden Bristlenose with a black eye

    in Catfish

    Posted

    Hi

    All my others are golden all over, was just the one young gba who had a black eye, now we have 2 like that. I guess its not so bad but I won't breed from these 2 once they are older, will most probably sell them on.

    There is no greater chance of one with black spots passing them on to their offspring than there is of totally golden ones having offspring that have black spots.

  5. Spot disappearing??

    in Catfish

    Posted

    don't worry firefish.

    It is quite normal for the "spot" to fade on the GBA.

    Technically speaking I have read many discussions about L144 (GBA) and most are along the lines of there perhaps only ever been one specimen actually caught, and the GBA that are in the trade today are in fact a gold cultivated form of the BN.

    But that discussion aside (because I can't find the reference to the discussions) about 0.5 - 1% of GBA have a brown / black dot somewhere on them.

    They all tend to fade as the fish grows older, and some fade quite quickly. If you breed from that one then there is the same 0.5-1% chance that the offspring will have a dot.

    I have one that has 1/2 of its face as a black dot. Well it did have. Now it looks like it is wearing half of spidermans mask. Quite cool.

    You may also find that the gold fades too.

    Cheers

    Geoff

  6. Guess the Fish

    in Catfish

    Posted

    Love a good id game.

    Pic 1 and 2 is P.Maccus - (L104, L162, LDA22). Ignoring of course all the debate regarding locality as a differing feature. It may have been purchased in NZ as a Leopard Frog (at Leopard Frog prices), or a Pretty Peckoltia (at a good price), or it may also have been purchased as a Clown Pleco about 2 months before the "Leopard Frogs" were here at a price in the middle of the two. Most likely a female.

    Pic 3 is a King Tiger Pleco (L066) and this is your dominant male.

    Pic 4 is also a King Tiger Pleco (L066) and is a male too.

    Pic 5 is a Chocolate Zebra (L270,L307,LDA76) and is a (young?) male.

  11. Individuals Pleco Collections...

    in Catfish

    Posted

    Common name: Clown pleco?? (pic, can someone ID it?)

    Scientific Name: Panaque maccus

    L number

    sex 1 male 1 female

    Looks like a male Peckoltia brevis LDA78 (if from Brazil) else L205 Peckoltia sp. (if from Peru), but they are both referenced on Planet Catfish by the same page. The orange on the leading edge of the tail fin is pretty distinctive

    http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species=peckoltia+brevis&species_id=1339

    More important, in my opinion, is that it is not a panaque.

    Cheers

  13. Pretty pekoltia - Peck. pulcha

    in Catfish

    Posted

    Pretty peckoltia vs. Panaque Maccus

    This particular Pretty peckoltia is Panaque Maccus L104, L162, LDA22

    Prior to the 11th special edition of Datz L-Numbers the L104 and L162 were thought of as a different fish, and that they were Peckoltia sp. Specifically in the 1995 Aqualog they are clearly labeled this way.

    In the 11th special edition of Datz L-Numbers (2004) They have become Panaqolus sp, but still different fish (L104 vs. L162 that is). Panaqolus was the term used for smaller / dwarf Panaque, but this classification was dropped in late 2003 early 2004 in favour of Panaque.

    In the 2008 publication "Back to nature guide to L-Catfishes by Ingo Seidel" L104 has been dropped altogether in favour of L162.

    So; as these fish came out of Germany, I would suspect that the literature used for identification pre dated the 2004 Datz publication hence Peckolita.

    In March 2009 these were also imported into NZ as L134 Leopard Frog (as mr pleco indicated), but with a Leopard Frog price so $40.00 for these ones is a great buy. Note that at the same time they were showing up in Sweeden also labeled as L134, so that would indicate that it was an exporter that got it wrong that time.

    I am not sure that I would call these fish mislabeled, given the evolution of their identification throughout the literature.

    Cheers

    Geoff

  14. I've found a turtle

    in Freshwater

    Posted

    lookie lookie who it is :D

    you should post more often :lol:

    Yes I should; but mr pleco, firenznez, and a few others usually say approximately what I'm going to say, so it seems obsolite.

    thanks but apparently he belongs to the school next door and lives in the biology outdoor ponds by the science labs He's free to come and go as he pleases as he has done today so we've taken him back or at least put him over the fence where he headed off back to the ponds

    A victory for the turtle...

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