Well, he seemed to be improving for a while but then he died ast night.

Fortunately his tankmate is still fine.

Thanks for the responses, he is still alive but looking worse this morning. The little guy always gets his share of food and I've never seen them fighting or competing (though they could be fighting at night), but I've partitioned the tank anyway, there is heaps of cover throughout the tank (1/3 of ...

I've had my pair of Porochilus rendahli for a bit over a year now and both have been extremely healthy until recently. In the last couple of weeks the smaller of the two (about 9 cm) has been rapidly losing weight, he (at least I think it's a he) is still eating, in fact he seems more hungry than ...

I bought a fish that was sold as a golden eeltail (see my thread here), apparently it is which does only grow to 20cm. That might be the one you were thinking of.

I bought an eeltail from a pet store (in Perth, Western Australia) not long ago, they weren't sure what it was or where it was from. It is about 10cm long and seems to like warm water (tank is at 24 degrees, it likes hiding near the heater). Maybe Neosilurus or Porochilus ? http://img.photobucket ...