spponface whiptail??

[ewok]

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcatfishp&1190622615

this guy looks so goofy! what's his story, scientific name, max size etc.

i may very well bid on this clown

either that or the queen arabesque L260
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcatfishp&1190623161

what do you guys think? i think queens are beautiful, but do you think two can live in a 100 gallon?

 

[COL]

Planiloricaria cryptodon. Large at around 12" including filaments. A sand sifter by nature, it relishes most prepared foods but is pretty slow to acclimate, so it should be kept alone or with other nonaggressive and non-competitive fish. Likes open spaces. Here's my male (one of a pair):

 

[T time]

I'd love to be able to find a few of those locally, awesome fish COL, post some pics of the microleps

 

[ewok]

is this type of fish predatory i.e. can't keep them with small 2" cichlids or does it do well with sinking pellet foods and what not

 

[COL]

It is predatory exclusively to substrate burrowing invertebrates and nothing else, really. Most of the time, they lie on the substrate, "walking" around on their pelvic and pectoral fins, rather unassumingly They do fine on most prepared foods (gut content in the wild is mostly larvae, but some vegetable matter wouldn't hurt), and in fact are quite aggressive once well established, and I've seen them drive off large peckoltia and panaque twice their girth during feeding.

Also sorry, T...I'm back up in college, so no new shots. D:

 

[T time]

Also sorry, T...I'm back up in college, so no new shots. D:

Damn, oh well. I know what you go through. I'm back in my college town too but this semester I was lucky enough to be able to setup a 110L tank and bring a few of my panaque but it still sucks not being able to be as deep into the game as you'd like.