Hello catfish freaks,

today I want to introduce you in four articles from the current issue of Aquaristik Fachmagazin,

Daniel Konn-Vetterlein "Zwischen Salmlern und Welsen am Grunde des Rio Xingu"

1. Teil
(„Between Tetras and Catfishes at bottom of Rio Xingu“)

Daniel Konn-Vetterlein reports about an excursion to Sao Felix on Rio Xingu. He was a participant of this excursion. On this trip he spoke with fishers. He was told for example that the fishers get for a Pseudacanthicus sp. "L25" (~30 cm long) converted only 3 – 5 EUR, or for a Baryancistrus xanthelus (fully grown) only 0.30 – 0.50 EUR. His observations are very interesting: Hypancistrus zebra cracks small shells, Scobinancistrus aureastus and Scobinancistrus sp. "L48" hunt large snails.
Other visible loricariids were Panaque cf. armbrusteri, Ancistomus cf. sabaji, Baryancistrus chrysolomus, Baryancistrus sp. "L19".

Ingo Seidel "Der ‘Beschneite Panaqolus’"

(“The ‘snow Panaqolus'”)

Ingo write about the scientific description of Panaqolus nix by Christian Andreas Cramer & Lúcia Helena Rapp Py-Daniel "A new species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Madeira basin with remarkable intraspecific color variation". Some years ago in the magazine DATZ Hans-Georg Evert presented this fish as Panaqolus sp. “L395”. Ingo points to the similarity to Panaqolus albomaculatus.

Roman Lechner "Vom Urwaldstrom ins Aquarium: Corydoras loretoensis aus dem peruanischen Amazonastiefland"

(„From jungle stream in the aquarium: Corydoras loretoensis from the Peruvian Amazon lowlands“)

Roman inform about the catch of Corydoras loretoensis in Rio Nanay and the reproduction of this Corydoras.
At time of the reproduction the water temperature was 23 ° C and the conductivity about 200-300μS / cm. In first time of fry’s Roman feed with Artemia. Just as Roman writes, he failed to timely provide alternative food to Artemia. As a result, the young fishes no coped the switch to dry food, they died or developed very poorly.

Frank Schäfer "Mastiglanis asopos"

Frank presents the dwarf whip catfish Mastiglanis asopos. This bizarre-looking catfish should be widespread in the Amazon region. The imported animals should originate from the Cachoeira de El Dorado, near the border with Venezuela and the city of Barcelos.
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