L91

[zigster]

Well had this little guy for well over 2 months now. Hardly ever see it but it is becoming more active during the day. At around 2" got a little bit of growing yet ! He/She is in a very low agression cichlid tank



Would like to add to my Pleco collection but try to keep to the Colombia/Venezuela area as the whole tank is built around my Uaru fernandezyepezi . Has anyone got any suggestions ?

[Shane]

Would like to add to my pl*co collection but try to keep to the Colombia/Venezuela area as the whole tank is built around my Uaru fernandezyepezi . Has anyone got any suggestions ?

Luckily for you there are many loricariids available from the Orinoco that would be fine in your set up (like your L. traictus above). There are also a handful of loricariids that are available from the Rio Atabapo where your Uaru come from.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/se ... order=hits

I noticed while looking around that the Atabapo pleco

Dekeyseria sp(l052)

does not come up in a search for Atabapo.

-Shane

[nvcichlids]

I noticed while looking around that the Atabapo pleco

Dekeyseria sp(l052)

does not come up in a search for Atabapo.

-Shane

I noticed that a few months back and just chuckled..

Great fish you have here, I am hoping that I am able to pick up a trio (1x 6" fish and 2x 7" fish) after the new years.

[MatsP]

I noticed while looking around that the Atabapo pleco

Dekeyseria sp(l052)

does not come up in a search for Atabapo.

Shane, we've had that discussion before. The L052 is listed as a "Rio Orinioco" fish - and we can't determine easily from that whether it does or doesn't live in one of it's tributaries, so when you are searching for Rio Atabapo, you are pretty much saying "Show me fish that are known from this river only", not "fish that lives in the overall basin, and MAY be present in this river".

It's just one of the drawbacks of the way the search system works.

I guess I could add Rio Atabapo to that species (in fact, I just did), but it won't solve the overall problem of "This fish lives in many/several/some tributaries to a main river".

You'd think that we could just say "tributaries to X" where X is a larger river with a little tick-box, and it would automatically add the relevant tributaries to the list for that species, but I'm fairly sure this would cause more problems than it solves, as it is not that unusual that fish only live on the left or right bank of certain stretches of a river, and are not present on the other side of the river, or they only live in rivers that come from high sections of mountain ranges, or in slow-moving rivers that are in lowland sections of the landscape, etc, etc. And we have no data in the database to give information such as "left/right", "north/south", "east/west", "lowland"/"steep" or whatever the restriction may be. All of this CAN be fixed, but it's not just a matter of writing the program, but also to update the 800+ bodies of water (and whilst that in itself is just a few mouse-clicks, it's not quite so easy to locate Rio Atabapo, or Rio Campo or some such on a map and determine which side of the river it contributes into, bearing in mind that you also need to figure out which way the main river flows at that particular point, so you can't just check it out on Google maps [assuming the river is at all listed there, which is not exactly "always"].

Sorry for the long answer, much of which I'm sure you, Shane, is aware of, but it may help someone else to understand the situation/problems involved with this.

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Mats

[CanadaPleco]

Your L91 looks very nice... just little too

L128's are caught in the same location as L91's.

Rich

[zigster]

Picked Up This little fella today ! L124

[MatsP]

Nice looking fish.

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Mats