Collecting, keeping and breeding an undescribed catfish species from Peru By Don Kinyon (habitat and collecting photos by David Snell) If...

By Don Kinyon There is a soft drink that is popular in Brazil that is made from and named after the Guarana plant, which gives the drink...

By Don Kinyon Corydoras identification has never been my strong suit. This is the cause of much confusion on my part, and on the part of...

By Don Kinyon Every once in a while a fish is brought into the hobby that makes even veteran fishkeepers take notice. In 2004, Lance Peck...

By Don Kinyon It seems that almost every day there are new additions to the group of Callichthyidae catfish we keep in our home...

by Don Kinyon This species has not yet been officially described, though I’m told they’re working on it. It is native to Brazil, but the...

by Francine Bethea I keep five Corydoras barbatus, a pair of Ancistrus c.f. dilopterus and five Apistogramma ‘Rio Mamore’ in a 33 long....

by Don Kinyon Here is a Cory that has been in the hobby for a good long time, yet never seems commonplace, or for that matter, in the...

by JT Thomas Image © JT Thomas 2009 I saw my first whiptail cat in a fairly crappy pet store about a year or a year and a half ago....

by Don Kinyon One of the most colorful and popular of the Corydoras species is the sterbai, first described by Knaack in 1962. It comes...

by Gene Moy Some time ago I received a breeding group of seven Corydoras similis from a fellow hobbyist. C. similis can be confused with...

by Don Kinyon Sometimes, through meticulous care and careful attention to the fishes’ diet, you can get a new or favorite fish to spawn...

by Don Kinyon Corydoras gossei is relatively new to science and the hobby, being officially described by Nijssen in 1972. It originates...

by Gene Moy Corydoras elegans used to be more readily available, but with the interest in new species, this former standby has become...

by Don Kinyon In the tributaries of the upper Rio Negro in Brazil, there are a few small catfish with strikingly similar color patterns....

by JT Thomas Everyone who has seen the inside of a fish store has seen 3/4" long white corys tooling around the bottom of a sales tank,...

by Don Kinyon Brochis are catfish from South America closely related to the Corydoras. The Brochis splendens is one of the most commonly...

by Don Kinyon Here is something a little different for the Corydoras catfish nuts: an Aspidoras. This little gem was described by...

by Francine Bethea There are at least seven different species of Ancistrus currently listed in the Image Library at the Planetcatfish...

by Francine Bethea A friend and fellow PVAS member, George Richter, set me up with a beautiful pair of Blue Gularis. This species of...