Lepidocephalichthys cf. thermalis

[The.Dark.One]

Some nice fish and photo's there Mick. Your images do give more to go on in terms of showing more of the variation in each fish in addition to the images by Emma, and also a different colour hue to those of Emma's. Based on where they are supposed to be from, and the markings, I still think these are undescribed.

[Graeme Robson]

Agreed!

[The.Dark.One]

Hello

One of my photo's of a never before photographed (in life) catfish was used in a German magazine recently. Someone sent me a scan of the page and I then noticed the article below. It shows what appears to be one of these fish and they caption it as cf. hasselti. I cant read German so I usually have to type it all out and translate it. Anyone here do it faster and tell us what the article says?

[Blue]

I tried Altavista Babelfish and I'm confused. Gives you a clue though.

Der Leiter der Fischabteilung von IMAZO, Mikael Hakansson, erzählte mir, dass er die Tiere gerade erst aus Vietnam bezogen hatte und mir auch nicht sagen könne um was es sich handele.

The director/conductor of the fish department of IMAZO, Mikael Hakansson, told me the fact that he had only referred the animals straight from Viet Nam and to me also say could not which it concerns.

Die Körperfarbung und auch die gedrudgene Körperform ließen mich bald an eine andere Art aus der Gattung denken.

The Koerperfarbung and also the gedrudgene body form let me think soon of another kind from the kind.

[The.Dark.One]

Thanks Blue. It says they were imported from Vietnam so looks like our fish. If only we could find out exactly where they are from we could describe or get them described.

[Blue]

Lepidocephalichthys hasselti VALENCIENNES, 1846 lebt im unteren Mekong-Einzug und ist über weite Teile Vietnams und Kambodschas verbreitet. Die für L. hasselti typische dunkle Körperbinde (ein Synonym der Art ist L. taeniatus) ist jedoch bei meinen Tieren stark unterbrochen and die Flecken sind recht groß.

Lepidocephalichthys hasselti VALENCIENNES, 1846 lives in the lower Mekong introduction and is common over far parts of Viet Nam and Kambodschas. The dark typical for L hasselti body-bind (a synonym of the kind is L taeniatus) is however with my animals strongly interrupted and for marks are quite large.

[Blue]

I'd give up too easily with so many German characters to type.
http://german.about.com/library/blcharcodes.htm

[Mark in Vancouver]

You should PM Rich for this. I hear his German is excellent...

[shari2]

I did. He's going to take a stab at it tonight. He's pretty busy right now...

[rich]

A quick shot:
At a short visit at the firm IMAZO near Goeteborg/Sweden, I discovered in one of the many tanks a small loach species, I’ve never seen alive before.

At first sight it reminded me of L. thermalis or L. gunthea, two loaches appearing from time to time in the trade.

The head of the fish department at IMAZO, Mikael Hakonsson, told me, that he just got the animals from Vietnam and couldn’t tell me exactly which species they were.

The colour and the stubby body soon had me thinking of another species.

L. hasselti Valenciennes 1846 lives in the lower Mecong (entry) catchment area and is widely spread over parts of Vietnam and Cambodia.

The, for L. hasselti, typically dark body ligature (a synonyme for the species is L. taeniatus) is however often interrupted on my animals and the spots are rather big. The short, like cut, caudal fin on the other hand, is right again.

As a precaution, I want to title the here introduced species as L. ct hasselti.

The maximal 6 cm large animals share at my place an aquarium with some Shistura species, which are however by far too dominant for the peaceful L. hasselti.
(“ Get them outta there then, idiot”… sorry)

Until now, the species proved to be quite modest and compatible.

They eat every offered food and live at a temperature of 23 – 25 ° C in medium hard water (….)

For the friend of peaceful small loaches, they are a real enrichment.
(many thanks to my wife Gabi, for typing my crappy hand writing so fast.)

[shari2]

U Da Man, rich!

Thanks.

[Blue]

That's great, Rich!:mrgreen:

[The.Dark.One]

Thanks Rich

[Martin Thoene]

Got to love the international makeup of our membership! It's so useful in instances like this.
Good on you rich

Martin.

[andre]

(“ Get them outta there then, idiot”… sorry)