Fish in the News from Robert in New Jersey Hi Tom & Nevin, Here is the fish in the News for this week. Your friend, Robert In NJ   Aquarium plant deemed possible threat to bodies of water http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=293226&src=3   RP's most expensive fish faces extinction http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/ ... faces-extinction   Under the Sea: Disney’s Dive Quest http://www.ibtimes.com/ ... disneydive-quest.htm   Probe on spread of janitor fish sought http://www.philstar.com/ ... Id=75   Hunt on for fish pest http://www.tweednews.com.au/story/2009/05/11/hunt-fish-pest/   Shelly the giant oyster is record catch of the day http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/12/oyster-record-size   Dennis Anderson: Walleyes seem to be bigger near the border http://www.startribune.com/ ... aUU   Prickly fish undergoes operation http://www.inthenews.co.uk/ ... 1294598.htm   Aquarist enjoys working with jellyfish, despite stings http://timesfreepress.com/ ... jellyfish-despite-stings/   Calif. water agency changes course on delta smelt http://www.nytimes.com/ ... 10572.html   New (and Improved?) Ears Found in Deep Fish http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ ... ears-fish-hearing.html   PHOTO: Biggest Trilobite Sea Beasts Found ... in Swarms http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ ... swarms-picture.html   Artificial-reef project may help restore fish species to Lake Pontchartrain http://www.nola.com/ ... coll=1   Officials battling Waco's water-taste issues using fish and aquatic plants http://www.wacotrib.com/ ... lake.html   First Right Whale Sedation Enables Disentanglement Effort http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311180335.htm   Midge Bones In Lake Sediments Reveal Fish History http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181248.htm   Catch causes hallucinations http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2427265.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ... British-coast.html Special thanks to Robert in New Jersey for sending us the links to these stories.       Tom's 55-gallon Angelfish Aquarium You can see the new ornaments that greatly changed the Angel Fish's behavior. There is a pair of Angels on the right side of the aquarium, and they keep most of the other Angels on the left side of the aquarium most of the time. Tom will almost surely talk abut this aquarium in the next Pet Fish Talk Show, and you are welcome to call and talk about pet fish.     Gold Veiltail Angel This Gold Veiltail Angel lives in Tom's 55-gallon Angelfish Aquarium, which is shown above on this page.       Beautiful Gold Marble Angelfish Two pictures taken this week of very beautiful Gold Marble Angel Fish. Every young Angel Fish seems to spend most of its time and energy searching for food.     Flame is Still Holding Her Eggs. She spawned two weeks ago with Percy in Tom's 55-gallon Mbuna Aquarium. Flame is still carrying her eggs, which are now probably wigglers, in her mouth. You can see the bump in her buccal cavity, which is below and behind her mouth.     This Week's Pictures of Tré Here is a picture taken at midnight before the day of this Pet Fish Talk Show. It's Tré the mature male Labeotropheus trewavasae, an Mbuna species from Lake Malawi in East Africa. That is not Flame in the background but another so-called Red Zebra female, which had just spawned.     Later another Mbuna hid in a Cichlid Stone near Tré. He swam to take a closer look and suddenly turned a brilliant blue then clamped his fins close to his body, as you can see.     Julius is a Haplochromis species 44. He is as ornery as usual and seems a little bit bigger. I found out the name of the fish farm that produced Julius and sent them an email with this picture, asking for Julius' scientific name. They replied that they sell this Cichlid species as the "Red Fin Obliquidens" a Hap from Lake Victoria. I then searched for that name on the internet and found several sources saying the Obliquidens name was almost certainly scientifically incorrect, and this species was being called Haplochromis species 44, or sp. 44, Haplochromis sp. "Thick Skin," Haplochromis obliquidens, and Astatotilapia sp. "Red Tail." The scientific names of many Cichlids from Lake Victoria are confused. Nevin will probably tell the story about our first shipment of Cichlids from Lake Victoria many many years ago ... none of the bags had any names written on them.     Bushymouth Pleco Here's the one Bushymouth Pleco. that lives in the Angel Fish Aquarium. Male Bushymouths have more tubercles than females, and this fish is undoubtedly a male.     Three Beacon Pleco This is the one catfish in the aquarium with the Mbunas. It was called L091 for a while, before it was given the scientific name Leporacanthicus triactis. As mentioned before on Pet Fish Talk, this fish likes to stay inside its cave. In this picture it had just backed out.     Tiny Bristles In this close-up picture of the same fish you can see the tiny bristles on the top lobe of its tail. When other fish in this aquarium try to investigate this cave, this catfish will wag its tail back and forth, and the curious fish will quickly leave. If is probably unpleasant to make contact with the bristles on this fish's tail.     Omega-Iris Here's a close up of the same fish's eye. You can see the so-called omega-iris in its eye. Instead of its pupil being round like yours, its pupil has a round flap that expands to effectively decrease the area of the pupil and adjust to the intensity of the light. Incidentally, you can also see the omega-iris in the eye of the Bushymouth Pleco. farther up this page.   Callers during this Show Nathan from Michigan calls and talks about the algae and cyanobacteria growing in his aquarium, and he wonders if it could all be caused by the fluorescent bulb in his 20-gallon aquarium. Robert in New Jersey calls and gives a report on feeding Xtreme Cichlid Diet to his Discus Fish. The Bailey Brothers encourage YOU to call Pet Fish Talk during the show and talk about your pet fish.     Download of this Entire Show Here's how: Right-Click here, then click on "Save Target (or Link) As ...".  Navigate to the folder you prefer, and click on the button labeled "Save". Later you can copy the MP3-file to your iPod or other MP3-player. You can also burn files to CDs, then play them in a CD-player.  Click here to download the PodCast for this show. 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