If frozen shrimp or bloodworms don't work the loss of appetite could be from a parasite.

Thanks guys,

I bought the Sperata at just under 4 inches as an African shovelnose and was told that it only grows to about 8 inches, its now 10 inches but is not yet aggressive to anything it can't eat. It currently gets along with a Synodontus Decorus and several cichlids. When it gets too big I will have to ...

I currently have a 10 inch long TL Sperata Aor in a 125 gallon, 6 foot long tank. Do you know if it would be safe to put a 4 inch TL Parachromis Dovii in there or would the Dovii cichlid be likely to get eaten

Are we still able to send posts to ther members? The format seems to have changed and I'm not able to check for messages either? Any advice?

The USA in the cold state of WI. I keep cichlids and catfish.

Nothing wrong with it yet. I have had this species in the past and they were eating and all and then one day I would just find them dead. My water ,ph and temp were good. They got a variety of food. I'm hoping I do better with this one.

I recently aquired a small one and in the past I had lost a couple of these fish when they were young in the past. I've been told that they were wild young and imported from Africa. Will I need to dose them with something for parasites even though I don't see anything wrong with the fish....yet ...

Why is the word cichlid .....censored ? I was just wondering.

My S. Aor is now about 8 inches long and I moved him into my 125 gallon. He still only comes out occassionally during the day in quicky searches for food at feeding time. He is still a very skinny looking catfish but he is eating.

I'll take your advice and when I get the Royal Pleco I'll put him in a 55 gallon with my red hooks until I eventually getthe trout cichlids to spawn and then I might get some choclate cichlds which should get along in a somewhat softer environment.

I have two male trout cichlids the largest being about 8 inches with three female trout cichlids Champsochromis coeruleus of about 4 inches. I have one pair of Amphilopus longimanus at about 3-4 inches, one extra male longimanus, one synodontus decorus of about 5 inches. Also one male ancistrus of ...

Could a small Royal Pleco go in a 125 gallon six foot tank with a pair of 6-7 inch ancistrus cats. The ancistrus cats have only bred once and since then they have been hanging out at opposite ends of the tank. There is also a Syn. decorus and some cichlids in there.The tanks has some driftwood ...

I had a spotted doradid cat(looked like agamyxis pectinfrons)that lived for about 16 years,we called him grunter. His eyes developed an opaque film on them for about half those years but none of my other fish came close in age. I don't know the life span of clarias cats though.

They were still small about 2- 3 inches and one of them killed one adult cory and chewed off the top of the nose on another adult cory in one night. It might have been that particular fish that was both active in the daytime and apparently more so at night. In my opinion its a responsive but ...

They wer both about two-3 inches .I had a school of adult corys in that tank and a few cichlds. come the next morning I had one dead cory and one Cory which was still alive but which had part of its snout and the top of its head eaten away. I separated them and the cory problem stopped but that ...

Then I might be able to eventually put him in my 125 gallon with my Syn. Decorus,a pair of ancistrus, and some cichlids.

The Synodontus decorus needs to be given a cave of his own and fed before the lights go out. My ancistrus hide behind rocks and slates. They are kept with Trout cichlids (Champsochromis ceruleus) and aa pair of longimanus cichlids in a 6 foot 125 gallon tank. And while not a catfish, 3 Botia Modesta ...

I waw wondering at what size does a Sperata Aor become intolerant of other catfish. I have one that is just under 3 inches in a 55 gallon with some other larger fish. Currently he's not as aggressive as either a Mystus nemurus or a Mystus leucophasis but he does have an appetite.

with cihlids a number of yeas ago and if he got spooked he would occasionally scrape himself on some of the rougher rocks or maybe the slates in the tank.

I have no familiarity with that genus and would appreciate any tips you guys may have. Thanks.

8 barbels , two long maxillary barbels, spot on long adipose fin.

I will post a couple pictures of this catfish, possibly a Sperata Aor,maybe on friday.My shareware isn't allowing me to post it on photobucket.

but their stuck in kodak shareware and i haven't yet figured out how to transfer them so that i could send them to planet catfish for a positive ID.

I'm 48 yrs old and have kept fish since I was 10.
I was trying to identify a catfish
and I had taken a couple of pictures of it and downloaded it to the Kodak shareware but I'm not sure how to get a couple of the pictures I have taken onto the site. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

It looks just like the sperata aor silver colored juvenile pictured in your cat-e-log except that the adipose spot is smaller. It also has a touch of white on the edge of some of the fins that my fish also has. But I thought that the LFS manager said that his supplier gets them from Africa. And the ...

It doesn't look like it has the black line down the lateral line and it seems to have a longer adipose fin with a tiny brown spot near the base of the adipose fin. He's in a 55 gallon with 4 red hook metynis and a leporinus and a halequin lancer which has now started coming out at feeding time too ...

two long maxillary barbels and four barbels underneath. It looks most like a bagrus bajad.

It looks like a bagrus or a mystus and has eight barbels with two very long (?)maxillary barbels it has a silvery gray color and fork tail with a filamentous extension on the upper part of the tail fin. It's 3 inches and comes out whenever I feed the tank and actively eats everything it can stuff ...