what will happen if you do not add salt with these fish will they get acclimated to it or is there something that will make them get sick or die. i have all freshwater fish, 2 shovelnose cats, pictus cat, rafeal cat, and a large pleco

i have had mine for about 6 months now and it pretty much stays to itself. never has bothered anyone else. it loves hiding places and burying itself in the gravel

my s. lima is about 10 or 11 inches long, i had a friend that had one about 18 inches. as long as they have ample room so they are not stressed they will grow. he wont look at the elephant nose as food as long as he cant put him in his mouth, that is the general rule with the shovelnoses, if it fits ...

my experience with them says you might want to get him a partner. they enjoy swimming together. as for the swimming up and down the back, that was very common with mine as well. i think they try to find a current to swim in, mine always swam around my waterfall filters.

thanks, was getting ready to build a couple of tanks, so will plan on one for the columbian

also do you have any info on the pseudoplatystoma tigrinum that does not have the pseudo fasciatum in the description

in the cat e log it has pictures of both in the description

i was wondering about salt in the tank. I have a lima shovelnose, pseudoplatystoma tigrinum, cigar shark, a breed of the pictus, a pleco and a columbian shark i know that columbians need brackish water, what i was wondering is will the salt kill the other fish or do i need to get another tank for ...

just try to separate the sick one till he gets better, this seems to help with any fish that get sick with me,

has not happened in a long time

is the ten gallon an established tank or is it new
if it is established then i would go with 25 to 50 percent water changes for a week
try that and see

i have had a couple of pictus my first was a polkadot pictus, i went through ich with him but it was the same time i was haveing some problems with my tank, he eventually got eaten by my tiger shovelnose he did not want to grow :cry: i now have a striped pictus, never had any ich with him, he is ...

not sure of the exact species but they are a common feeder fish over here along with golds.
my lima is about 10 or 11 inches now and will eat golds with the best of them.

everything i have read on them, there has not been any sexing on them

when mine was smaller it liked to eat rosies, would not eat gold fish but loved those rosies, don't know if you have those over there

the problem i have which i am fixing is my undergravel is not flowing right so it is killing my ph levels, this is something to watch if you run an undergravel

i use a product nox-ich by weco products, this has worked good for me, i can no longer use it though because of my shovelnose cats, it seems to burn them, so watch that close no matter what you use, also think about a water change i have both irridescent and an albino irridescent and they swim ...

mine like shrimp pellets, that is all mine eat, just watch how much you put in like it was said they are glutonous eaters

thanks, will just have to set up a separate tank for them then

yes s. allen that was the whole purpose, that is why she wont let me put it in wiht them

yes mine is about 6 inches now and knew he can get bigger

can shovelnose and columbian sharks live in the same water
i understand that you need more salt with columbians, can the shovelnose handle the levels you need for an adult columbian

the oranda is in my wifes tank, i wanted to put it in with the cats but she wont let me, the golden shark is what they call it at the pet store it is also known as red finned cigar shark

just intro to myself. i am 30 and have had fish for about a year now, have gone through a few of them
now i am down to
2 tiger shovelnose
1 lima shovelnose
1golden shark
1 irridescent shark
1 albino irridescent shark
2 plecostemos 1 small 1 big
1 striped pictus cat
1 striped rapheal cat
1 red oranda

it still shows a picture of what i thought was the fasciatum wich is the one with more of a tiger pattern than the mostly black one with a horizontal stripe in with the same pics

was wondering if any of you know more info on pseudoplatystoma tigrinum, i have both the pseudoplatystoma fasciatum and the tigrinum, every site i find though gives you info on the fasciatum. i know them as tiger shovelnose catfish and tiger shovelnose i know the fasciatum can get around 50" or so ...

yes magnum i figured out my undergravel is not working right so am going to fix that

i have a few fish that do that, it usually is a way of letting me know the water is not right, usually if i do a water change then it goes away