For 50 years boffins have been baffled as to how the strange looking fish coped with eyes giving it tunnel vision of whatever was directly above its head.But now they know the Barreleye Fish (or Macropinna microstoma, if you want to get all technical) can rotate its odd eyes within a transparent shield that covers the fish’s head.

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A previously unknown species of climbing catfish has been discovered in remote Venezuela, and its strange traits are shaking the evolutionary tree for these fish.

The newfound catfish, Lithogenes wahari, shares traits with two different families of fish — Loricariidae (armored catfishes) and Astroblepidae (climbing catfishes). It has bony armor that protects its head and tail, and a grasping pelvic fin that helps it to climb vertical surfaces such as rocks.

But L. wahari also has a specialized pelvic fin that decouples from its body and moves backward and forward independently. This feature — used in combination with a grasping mouth to move like an inchworm up rocks — is otherwise found only in a family of climbing catfish restricted to the Andes, the Astroblepidae. Climbing could be an advantage to these fishes because of the irregular and sometimes high-flow of streams in these elevations.

Read more about it at MSNBC.com

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“Hindsight is 20/20, and we are a learning organization”, said Michael Rogal, Vice President of Sales for Hi-Q’s US Division. “Everybody agrees that people should do water changes – the problem is that statistics show 90 percent of people don’t do them – our message was, if this is the status quo, why not develop an integrated filter that picks up the slack and makes a less than ideal environment more bearable for the fish? We didn’t consider this to be going against the grain – if anything, we thought that the traditionalists (local store owners, fish room managers) were the ones going against it, you know, preaching the merits of water changes to beginners who tend to be devoid of time, patience, or attention span.”

By rebranding and re-formatting the system as the Complete Cycle Filter, Hi-Q seeks to distance itself from the controversial “No Water Change” tag and instead focus customers’ attention on the “accepted” benefits of the product – namely, its market position as the first integrated filtration system with full denitrification capacity, (the ability to reduce nitrate levels through conversion to gaseous nitrogen).

Also, in other news, MFT member TAL will be making an appearance on Blue Zoo Radio (bluezooradio.com) on January 12th, 2009 to talk about his review on the HIQ Complete Filter System. You can read his review here and also FroggyFox’s review on the same system.

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