{"product_id":"ancistrus-sp-l530-schneeflocke","title":"Ancistrus sp. L530 \"Schneeflocke\"","description":"\u003c!-- ============================================================\n     CRITICAL MASS AQUATICS — PRODUCT DESCRIPTION\n     Species: Ancistrus sp. \"Schneeflocke\" (L530)\n\n     HOW TO USE:\n     1. Products → your product → Description → click \u003c\u003e (HTML mode)\n     2. Paste everything below this comment block\n     3. Update Breeding Status value as status changes\n        Common values: \"Available Now\" | \"Growing Out — Join the Waitlist\"\n        | \"Waitlist Only\" | \"Not Currently Breeding\"\n\n     NOTES:\n     - Undescribed species: no IUCN block, no FishBase block (IUCN status is Not Evaluated)\n     - No CARES listing\n     - L-number assigned 2025: Seidel, DATZ 78(2): 46-50\n     - Locality per WORLDFISH WIKI: Brazil, Rio Negro drainage\n     - Species \u0026 Care block uses ancistrus.at (Seidel \u0026 Tanke) — the only current\n       specialist profile carrying verified parameters for this code\n     - No PlanetCatfish Cat-eLog page confirmed for L530 yet. A second Species \u0026 Care\n       block is commented out below — uncomment and drop the URL in once it's live.\n     ============================================================ --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- 1. RESOURCES SECTION --\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: .16em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #a09488; margin: 0 0 10px 0 !important;\"\u003eResources\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- Species \u0026 Care block 1 — ancistrus.at (Seidel \u0026 Tanke) --\u003e\u003ca style=\"display: flex !important; align-items: center !important; justify-content: space-between !important; gap: 12px !important; background: #f5f0eb !important; border-radius: 6px !important; padding: 11px 15px !important; margin: 0 0 8px 0 !important; text-decoration: none !important; box-sizing: border-box !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancistrus.at\/en\/ancistrus\/ancistrus-sp-l530\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: .1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #a09488 !important; margin: 0 0 2px 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003eSpecies \u0026amp; Care\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond',Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; color: #1e2d45 !important; font-style: italic !important; text-decoration: underline !important; text-decoration-color: #c8b4a0 !important; text-underline-offset: 3px !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003eSeidel \u0026amp; Tanke — Ancistrus sp. (L530)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #c8b4a0 !important; flex-shrink: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003e↗\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c!-- Species \u0026 Care block 2 — PlanetCatfish. UNCOMMENT AND ADD URL WHEN CAT-ELOG ENTRY IS LIVE\n\u003ca style=\"display: flex !important; align-items: center !important; justify-content: space-between !important; gap: 12px !important; background: #f5f0eb !important; border-radius: 6px !important; padding: 11px 15px !important; margin: 0 0 8px 0 !important; text-decoration: none !important; box-sizing: border-box !important;\" href=\"ADD-URL-HERE\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: .1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #a09488 !important; margin: 0 0 2px 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003eSpecies \u0026amp; Care\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond',Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; color: #1e2d45 !important; font-style: italic !important; text-decoration: underline !important; text-decoration-color: #c8b4a0 !important; text-underline-offset: 3px !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003ePlanetCatfish — Ancistrus sp. (L530)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #c8b4a0 !important; flex-shrink: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003e↗\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n--\u003e\u003c!-- Breeding Status block — update value as status changes --\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: flex !important; align-items: center !important; gap: 12px !important; background: #f5f0eb !important; border-radius: 6px !important; padding: 11px 15px !important; margin: 0 0 8px 0 !important; box-sizing: border-box !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: .1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #a09488 !important; margin: 0 0 2px 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003eBreeding Status\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond',Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; color: #1e2d45 !important; font-style: italic !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;\"\u003eAvailable Now\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- ← CHANGE THIS --\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- 2. TAXONOMY LINE --\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: .14em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #a09488; margin: 26px 0 4px 0 !important;\"\u003eLoricariidae · Brazil (Rio Negro drainage)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- 3. SPECIES CREDIT LINE --\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond',Georgia,serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; color: #a09488; margin: 0 0 22px 0 !important;\"\u003eAncistrus sp. \"Schneeflocke\" (L530) — undescribed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- 4. CONSERVATION STORY --\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-left: 2px solid #c8b4a0; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 16px 0 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.8; color: #1e2d45; margin: 0 0 13px 0 !important;\"\u003eThis species has no formal scientific name. It circulated in the hobby as the Schneeflocke, or snowflake, for years before it was finally assigned the code L530 in 2025 - one of four long-familiar Ancistrus that had been sitting in tanks without a number.\u003csup\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: #a09488; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#ref1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e It comes from the Rio Negro drainage in Brazil, a river now swinging between extremes. In October 2023 the Negro dropped to the lowest level recorded at Manaus in 121 years of measurement.\u003csup\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: #a09488; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#ref2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Twelve months later it broke that record again, hitting 12.66 metres against a normal October level of about 21.\u003csup\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: #a09488; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#ref3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Two years before the first of those droughts, the same river had set an all-time high. An undescribed fish carries no IUCN assessment and no conservation status, which means nobody is officially tracking what any of this does to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.8; color: #1e2d45; margin: 0 !important;\"\u003eThe fish you're looking at were bred here in Eugene, Oregon - not collected from the wild. Building a captive population now means there's something to fall back on regardless of what happens to the habitat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- 5. REFERENCES --\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-left: 2px solid #e8e0d8 !important; padding-left: 20px !important; margin: 0 0 26px 0 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 1.7; color: #a09488; margin: 0 0 6px 0 !important;\" id=\"ref1\"\u003e1. Seidel, I. Vier neue L-Nummern für lange bekannte Ancistrus-Arten. Die Aquarien- und Terrarienzeitschrift (DATZ) 78(2), 46-50 (2025).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 1.7; color: #a09488; margin: 0 0 6px 0 !important;\" id=\"ref2\"\u003e2. NASA Earth Observatory. \u003ca style=\"color: #a09488; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: #c8b4a0;\" href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/earth\/earth-observatory\/drought-on-the-rio-negro-151961\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDrought on the Rio Negro.\u003c\/a\u003e (2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Jost',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 1.7; color: #a09488; margin: 0 !important;\" id=\"ref3\"\u003e3. Copernicus \/ EU Space Programme. \u003ca style=\"color: #a09488; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: #c8b4a0;\" href=\"https:\/\/eu-space.europa.eu\/components\/earth-observation-copernicus\/image-of-day\/record-drought-rio-negro\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRecord Drought in the Río Negro.\u003c\/a\u003e (2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- 6. DIVIDER + BRAND CLOSER — leave as-is on every listing --\u003e\u003chr style=\"border: none !important; border-top: 1px solid #e8e0d8 !important; margin: 0 0 18px 0 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond',Georgia,serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; color: #a09488; margin: 0 !important; text-align: center; letter-spacing: .04em;\"\u003eEthically bred. 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