rare catfish?

[schizo_fish]

apart from Zebra Plecs (Which are amazing) what other rare or beautiful catfish are available?

 

[SirMinion]

Hundreds of the buggers. We have a book that lists over 350 of the pleco type catfish known as 'L-numbers'

Not all are as showy as the Zebra, but some are spectacular, like scobiancistrus auratus the Goldy Plec or L200 the Yellow spotted lime green plec.


Go to Planet Catfish's plec section and have a browse.

 

[schizo_fish]

what is with the L-numbers thing?
ive seen them before, what do they mean?

 

[SirMinion]

They're finding new species of plecs from the loracariideae family faster than they can classify them, so they give them 'L-Numbers' as an interim measure. The 'L' refers to the catfish famility that they all belong to 'Lorcariideae'

 

[schizo_fish]

ah, i understand now.
can you think of any that are as showy as the zebra plec?

 

[plecoguy]

Gold Nugget Pleco, Butterfly Pleco, Queen Arabesque pleco, the list goes on and on.

 

[CFC]

The ultimate in rare and beautiful catfish, Merodontotus tigrinus

Not quite as pretty but about a quarter of the price of the tigrinus Brachyplatystoma juruense

Not pretty at all but a must have for the catfish collecter with a fat wallet and a large empty tank, Psuedopimelodus fowleri.

The ever elusive Hemisorubim platyrhynchos, took me 5 years to track this one down

 

[Paul_MTS]

that L200 is wicke, love the shape of the fins on it.

Hmmm hows about some common names CFC!!

 

[CFC]

These fish dont really have common names and at the ammount they cost if you dont know the scientific names then you wouldnt be buying them. However recently some places have been giving these fish common names in a attempt to make them more customer friendly (shame they dont make the prices more wallet friendly!)

Merodontotus tigrinus=Zebra shovelnose

Brachyplatystoma juruense=Flash zebra shovelnose

Psuedopimelodus fowleri=Jelly catfish

Hemisorubim platyrynchos=Spotted shovelnose

 

[Paul_MTS]

Your right, I doubt i will buy them...well atleast not until i have my own house packed full of tanks!!

Your first picture isn't working by the way!!....

 

[SirMinion]

that L200 is wicked, love the shape of the fins on it.

We've got one *smug*
We found it at Shotgate aquatics in Billericay.

It cost us £35 and it's only an inch and a half long!

CFC, there's a Merodontotus tigrinus for sale on Aquarist Classifieds at the moment if you want one.
A ten inch specimen for £230. Gorgeous fish.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Grr!! I think i'll have to find one for my next tank there too good not to miss out on!!

i went to sea pets and swallow aquatics today and saw some big shovel noses and tiger ones, great looks fish.

also see what you mean by the fahaka puffers minion, i think there was like 10 of them in that tank

 

[SirMinion]

also see what you mean by the fahaka puffers minion, i think there was like 10 of them in that tank

Yep and they're the same age as Martha, but Martha's now over six inches and those poor little buggers are still at two.

They've got bite marks on them from fighting too.

Ten Fahakas in a 20 gallon tank. Oh dear oh dear.

 

[tear-scar]

There's also rare species of cories . . .

I'll mention c. similis and c. gossei