I named my featherfin "Invisicat" because she was always hiding for the first few months, and I never saw her feed in the first month either- she's made up for it since, as she's always about waiting for feeding time now. She grew from 1" to 6" in the first year, and got seriously fat in the process ...

Nice! Was that in France? We should start a new thread although it may be more appropriate elsewhere. Here's me with my biggest ever carp (and biggest ever fish, come to that) at just over 47lbs Your carp is 10 lb better than my best French carp... yes, the baby cat was in France on boilie whilst ...

I see LNB finally got her bike- good going! Whilst this is an ancient thread, it sort of fits that I include a picture from 2003- that's not far off the most recent picture I've got! The only catfish I've ever caught angling: http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/carp37/catfish25-0611-08-2a-1.jpg

Hi Andy-
good to see another SVAS member on the site- Planet Catfish is probably the all-out best aquarist website for specialist information/advice.

When I was a teenager in the 80s, just about every large aquatic shop I visited had Pangasius for sale- now it seems to be a rarity in my area (South Yorkshire). Arowana and pacu are also much less commonly for sale than they used to be. Tiger and lima shovelnoses, and giraffe cats still seem to be ...

The trigger is Balistoides viridescens, watch out for them when they have a nest! We saw some HUGE ones in the Maldives. How big do these get? This was over 1m long and we estimated 20-25 lbs. in weight. Another species of trigger gave me my only ever "help! I'm afraid of this fish!" moment when a ...

I love the one of the CATS all in a bunch. These were my favourite fish too (but then again they are catfish); they reminded me of baby bullhead cats in France- it took us nearly a week to find them; I can't imagine why such poisonous fish are so secretive. Then again, it was a shock to see that ...

Did you take these scuba diving or snorkelling? I don't know how to scuba dive yet, but I was still amazed by how much I could see just snorkelling when last on holiday near a reef. These were all snorkelling- I snorkelled for two sessions each day, from one to two hours mostly (nearly four hours ...

I've just got a new computer, and whilst trawling through disks to see what software needed putting on, I found a disk with these photos from a 2000 holiday in Mauritius. The quality's a bit poor, as they were taken with a disposable underwater camera, then scanned at too low a resolution, but they ...

I also think your nitrate test may not be quite as accurate as we'd hope for. It can be quite hard to determine if a colour is the same as what is on the paper, or just a little bit off. As long as it's much lower after than before, that's a good sign. I'd agree with this- aquarium nitrate test ...

interesting report- I'm amazed you caught some predatory pimelodids on bread!

Thanks Matthew- I suspected as much, but just wanted some confirmation.

Stu

Hi- I'm hoping someone with a better understanding of the Panaque nigrolineatus complex can help me with this fish- it was bought 26 months ago as a dull-eyed royal, L191, and at the time seemed to be a good match for the pictures of juveniles in the Cat-eLog. However, it doesn't seem to match ...

It looks like you were quite close for some of the shots? Did the mothers not get a bit twitchy about it? I guess if they make their home on an RAF practice range they must be pretty laid back about life in general.. ;) For the main part of the reserve, there's a double layer of very low fencing ...

I'm not really sure if I should be posting this here (mods- give me a shout if it's totally inappropriate please), but I've just had a great day out at Donna Nook in Lincolnshire looking at grey seals- apparently they've had over 1,000 pups this year. For anyone within driving distance in the UK it ...

Nice finds- I can confirm that the sand goby pictured doesn't look like microps - it could be minutus as you suggest- strange as I've personally never caught any Pomatoschistus species other than microps ! (I collected literally thousands of them for my PhD, plus my lab-mate's PhD). I've got lots of ...

Great find- all my pond's produced this year is a single frog, and lots of mosquitoes/midges!

Thanks Mats, Peter- I was pretty sure the top fish was a female when the picture was taken (the fish being at an age of 2 years 4-6 months), but now they look as male as the fish in the bottom picture except for the orange colouration round the bottom of the fish, which Peter's male is also showing ...

3 years ago, I got 4 juvenile Callichthys callichthys from PC user Hoplo- these were between 3"-3.75" TL. One very quickly developed "ski-jump", thickened, orange-coloured pectoral spines, so I was pretty sure that one was male. The remaining three had shorter, less thickened pectoral spines lacking ...

Nice pictures Marc. I'd agree with Rupert that the roach/rudd are roach, not rudd. I wasn't previously aware that chub had changed it's genus to Squalius (I've not kept up with cypriniform nomenclature evidently :oops: )- the fish in question looks as though it could be a chub, but could also be a ...

My house is moderately new (about 20 years old) and quite small, so it stays pretty warm in summer (the heating is switched off from mid-April to mid-September). Every time we get a heat wave (not that often in Britain) I have to disconnect heaters for a week or so. I agree with Larry that heaters ...

As Mats says, these should be fine- I've got nine Megalechis that went a fortnight without food whilst I was stuck in Spain during the Ash Cloud crisis. The only thing I'd suggest is to make sure the filters are running cleanly before you go- the fish won't starve, but might run short of oxygen if a ...

I've got used to it- I'm happy enough for it to stay, although I could understand mods like Mats getting tired of the questions from new users.

Wow, that is so cool... I'd also rather trade wildlife for people any time, although a work colleague of my dad's was a bit perturbed when an alligator took a carp off his hook when fishing in the States.

I've caught bream and carp which are "two-tone" (with the first half of the body darker or, more usually, lighter than the rest of the body), and had a male Geophagus which had the same thing- in the cichlid's case it reverted to normal after a couple of months. I think I've only ever seen one fish ...

Where's the pics? :D Hi LNB- I've posted this picture before, when I was asking whether or not to add a substrate to the pond, but I'll post it again: http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/carp37/pond16-09-09.jpg That picture was taken last autumn- since then the duckweed has really taken off ...

thanks for the responses Mats, Bas Pels. @Bas Pels- I'm sure it's not spawning tubercles, as the white patches are on back of the dorsal fin of the worst affected fish, and on the pectoral fin of the less affected fish. I'm not 100% sure it's fungus as the pond is a bit cloudy at the moment- I had ...

Hi- apologies for the incomplete title, I ran out of characters. I have a 450 gallon (UK) outdoor pond with 6 juvenile goldfish and 2 juvenile carp (plus 4 roach fry and an indeterminate number of sticklebacks) in my garden. Other than topping up any evaporation, I don't do any routine water changes ...

Even though it's wrong in the true sense of L-numbers, I'd be tempted to leave it in the L-numbers list, as what we're now calling "sp.4" is still going to be referred to as L144 in the trade for at least the foreseeable future.

Mats' solution seems pretty reasonable to me, including the link to L-numbers showing L144 twice (the real one and "sp.4").