phoenix44 Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 So finally I got me some of these beauties! :bounce: I am awaiting positive confirmation of ID from Planet Catfish, but based on someone-else's similar buy they should be Ancistrus sp. `Rio Ucayali` Ill get more pics up as they settle into the tank and start eating good protein foods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze-dragon Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 they look stunning when they settle down and go their proper dark brown/ blackish colour. ours I swear have already grown heaps since we brought them 2 weeks ago. congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiplymouth Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 In the imortal words of the sage. THEY'VE GOT WHITESPOT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted November 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 they look stunning when they settle down and go their proper dark brown/ blackish colour. they are looking good so far I think i have caught the bug. if i work more this week and the next - ill get some more provided i can put some money aside. THEY'VE GOT WHITESPOT :lol: lots of whitespot. just the way its supposed to be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatfish Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 great looking fish. Goodluck with the id. Theres a lot of very similar looking Ancistrus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firenzenz Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Yes nice fish The ID and the way it has been achieved worries me. I see that there was plenty of 'looks like' and 'good guess' on the PC ID post but not too many 100% sure. I could see that an argument for the fish being the same as others in threads looking for ID. Perhaps a lot of wildcaughts of same species getting to different markets around the world at the same time frame makes sense. But are they Rio Ucayali?. Where is any evidence or no mater how speculative that they were even sourced from that river? Are they yet another species of many ancistrus that have that pattern type. Are you going to commit to that name? If so what lengths are you willing to go to ensure that all of those fish that came in are also designated to that name since they came in as something else. Would you see any problem with the same fish having different names. If it came in from the importer I suspect it has I would suggest it would be given as a creative name as possible, especially if that were correct. The fact it didn't could in itself mean it's ID is unknown. The fact that ID questions for similar fish on PC start with yet another designated name to me builds up a situation of a spotted ancistrus with no real knowlege of its origin but that has similarity to known species of known origin. Just throwing in another view. Cool little fish for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted November 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 I can't trace what part of the river they are from, so am not going to confirm that they are indeed Rio... What I do know is that they definitely are not An. dolichopterus as the wholesaler claims. They 'seem' to be Rio Ucayali -but I won't confirm that until I get a proper positive ID - if I get a proper positive ID. On another note, i went through the cat-e-log and these seem pretty consistent with Rio Ucayali's - including the orangish colour. only time will tell i suppose. Until then ill keep getting more in hopes to breed them someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_to_fish_world Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I can't trace what part of the river they are from, so am not going to confirm that they are indeed Rio... What I do know is that they definitely are not An. dolichopterus as the wholesaler claims. They 'seem' to be Rio Ucayali -but I won't confirm that until I get a proper positive ID - if I get a proper positive ID. On another note, i went through the cat-e-log and these seem pretty consistent with Rio Ucayali's - including the orangish colour. only time will tell i suppose. Until then ill keep getting more in hopes to breed them someday. If you breed them let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simian Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Do the females have bristles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr pleco Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 as far as i know owen yep they do ,same as the starlights my starlight females have small bristles round the lips ,,, at this size and age i would say females should show no bristles but i could be wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted November 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 as far as i know owen yep they do ,same as the starlights my starlight females have small bristles round the lips ,,, at this size and age i would say females should show no bristles but i could be wrong would you confirm the id? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiplymouth Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 as far as i know owen yep they do ,same as the starlights my starlight females have small bristles round the lips ,,, at this size and age i would say females should show no bristles but i could be wrong All of mine have bristles, Do yours P44? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted November 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 not a whole lot of bristles, but the odd one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottie841 Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 All of ours have some but a couple of them only have a few smaller ones around their top lip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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