It's nice to see them being kept in a tank that's big enough.
There's a pic of a humungous Acanthicus adonis on that website.
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- 20 May 2010, 12:36
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Pangasius ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1118
- 03 Apr 2010, 15:36
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Synodontis filamentosa
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1637
Re: Synodontis filamentosa
My two are quite shy. They get along fine with each other, but I don't think they would do well with some of the more aggressive species. As for the temperature, I think 79-80 degrees F is fine; that's about what mine are kept at.
- 20 Jan 2010, 12:32
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: a 10 pnts question-pics version
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3369
Re: a 10 pnts question-pics version
The pattern on the underside looks right for pardalis.racoll wrote:The pictures are small, but it is more than likely .
- 17 Jan 2010, 15:16
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5470
Re: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
Here's the article where he makes the claim; he says El Nino affects the jet stream. I'm not qualified to say whether he's right or wrong:
http://times.cluster.newsint.co.uk/tol/ ... 976679.ece
http://times.cluster.newsint.co.uk/tol/ ... 976679.ece
- 15 Jan 2010, 12:21
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5470
Re: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
I wish all the luck and future success for the Floridan farms. But, don't you all think it's due to global warming? It's unusually cold here in Japan this year. Something is weird. According to the Times weatherman all this cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere has something to do with the El ...
- 14 Jan 2010, 16:55
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5470
Re: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
I don't mind the thought of eating a snake, but putting ketchup on it? Yuck!!!
- 14 Jan 2010, 13:09
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5470
Re: Freeze in Florida threatens tropical farms
There's a silver lining to this cold: it'll reduce many of the invasive species in Florida. Iguanas, pythons and jewel c*****ds don't handle frost well. At all. It's also making it easier to capture exotic reptiles as they go into a state of torpor. (But causing problems for native reptiles as well ...
- 13 Jan 2010, 14:04
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Will Multipunctatus socialize with other Synocats?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1394
Re: Will Multipunctatus socialize with other Synocats?
They will socialize with their own kind and I don't think there would be a problem keeping them with the rift lake species S. petricola or lucipinnis, which are also gregarious. There could be a problem keeping them with the more territorial riverine species (like nigrita, etc.), which might result ...
- 12 Jan 2010, 10:28
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: How do you cool the water temperarure down?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2763
Re: How do you cool the water temperarure down?
There's a low-tech way of cooling the tank. Leave the cover off and position a fan so that it blows across the water surface. The water will be cooled somewhat by evaporation. You wouldn't want to do this all the time, obviously, but it might help during a heat wave.
- 11 Jan 2010, 13:09
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: help please
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1373
Re: help please
Not something to be encouraged, though, unless you can at least make an educated guess at what type of catfish it is--to be frank.Timberwolf wrote:It sounds like you did what I did and gambled on a really great-looking fish without really knowing much about it.
- 08 Jan 2010, 14:14
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Red Dolphin cat
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1419
Re: Red Dolphin cat
Well, for $8 it would be tempting. I once ordered "green porthole catfish" to see what they were. It turned out to be Hoplosternum littorale, and I still have them.Dave Rinaldo wrote:He ordered one
I'll let you know what shows!
- 15 Dec 2009, 15:42
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Jumping Plecos?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2082
Re: Jumping plecos?
It has only happened to me once, with a Hypostomus faveolus . When I gave it an unusual food, persimmon (sharon fruit), it ate quite a lot and afterwards suddenly jumped out of the tank. I rescued it, and it seemed fine, but I have never again given persimmon to my plecos, in case it is toxic (or ...
- 14 Dec 2009, 17:52
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Does anybody know is this one?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1439
Re: Does anybody know is this one?
If they were euptera (the new name for eupterus) they would have the feathered dorsal fin by now. I think they are most likely nigrita.
- 14 Dec 2009, 14:59
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Does anybody know is this one?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1439
Re: Does anybody know is this one?
It does look like one, yes. It can be difficult to tell nigrita from , which is a smaller species.
- 09 Dec 2009, 18:23
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Visit to MA @ Oxford...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1930
Re: Visit to MA @ Oxford...
If you are interested in several of them (rather than a single one), I'd say make an offer on the group [or ask "Can you give me a good price if I buy the lot, you've had them for a long time...?"]). You can haggle in the shop, you know. They probably do know me well enough for that. A single one ...
- 09 Dec 2009, 15:32
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Visit to MA @ Oxford...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1930
Re: Visit to MA @ Oxford...
Just a few comments since that shop is on my home turf: I've seen that big L. oncinus, it's a real beauty, but I can't afford it myself. I was hoping Martin S. might be interested, but he says he can't afford it either. Mats, I'm glad you agree that the S. decora aren't hybrids. I was 99% sure that ...
- 07 Dec 2009, 15:34
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Evolution in action (in birds)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 790
Evolution in action (in birds)
It's got nothing to do with catfish, but I thought this article was really interesting:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/s ... 943469.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/s ... 943469.ece
- 04 Dec 2009, 17:20
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: wich kind of zapper?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1554
Re: wich kind of zapper?
Yeah, you need to catch it with your hands, flip it over, spread the pelvic fins, etc.Silurus wrote:The photos don't show enough characters, so I can't tell you which one this is.
- 27 Nov 2009, 15:45
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Rescued catfish ID please :)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1525
Re: Rescued catfish ID please :)
I've seen ones for sale that were bigger than the Cat-eLog size, so I agree with the upward increase.
- 24 Nov 2009, 16:06
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: colour changing syno????
- Replies: 1
- Views: 790
Re: colour changing syno????
The feathered dorsal fin develps as they grow, and the reticulate pattern gradually breaks up into one of spots. Your fish could be true featherfins, or they might be hybrids, but we can't really tell without photos.
- 22 Nov 2009, 16:36
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Synodontis njassae I believe :)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 884
Re: Synodontis njassae I believe :)
I agree, it's a hybrid.
- 22 Nov 2009, 16:28
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Electric Catfish - Malapterurus electricus - Advice, Please!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2296
Re: Electric Catfish - Malapterurus electricus - Advice, Please!
There is also the problem of its eventual size to consider.
Apparently you can teach them to take food from your hand, but I'm not sure how you get from Point A (not tame) to Point B (tame) without being zapped in the process.
Apparently you can teach them to take food from your hand, but I'm not sure how you get from Point A (not tame) to Point B (tame) without being zapped in the process.
- 09 Nov 2009, 15:28
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Catfish on road signs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7381
Re: Catfish on road signs
I tried googling "Catfish Row" (as in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess) but no luck in finding a sign. I guess it isn't a real street. I did find this one, though:
- 06 Nov 2009, 14:50
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: What Syno am I?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1559
Re: What Syno am I?
The robbiana/nigrita/or something else problem is a difficult one. In the shops you sometimes find what appear to be other species mixed in with nigrita and being sold as them, but finding out what they actually are isn't always easy.
- 06 Nov 2009, 14:39
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: id this pim
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2531
Re: id this pim
BTW I think this is quite a lucky find.
- 06 Nov 2009, 14:36
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Catfish chasing each other?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1370
Re: Catfish chasing each other?
To minimise the fighting, when they go in the larger tank, make sure there are hiding places at both ends, and hopefully each fish will be happy with half of the tank as its own territory. However, I can't guarantee that this will work.
- 04 Nov 2009, 16:43
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: riding current for fun or oxygen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 743
Re: riding current for fun or oxygen
Even when the water is well-oxygenated they may do it the odd time. If they are doing it a lot, that's when you have a problem.DJ-don wrote:im just checking to make sure and there is defintley no gulping air!
- 04 Nov 2009, 16:38
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Electra vs cuckoo
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1617
Re: Electra vs cuckoo
excuse that it is upside down. I can't seem to rightside it. It was shot on phone nd I don't know how to rotate it. There's a very good freeware program called Faststone Image Viewer that can do that and all sorts of other things. I couldn't live without it. You can download the latest version, 3.9 ...
- 28 Oct 2009, 17:18
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Mystery Cat
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2467
Re: Mystery Cat
Yes, that quotes Burgess, which is probably where I read it. There don't seem to be any observations of it in the wild, though.
- 28 Oct 2009, 14:31
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Mystery Cat
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2467
Re: Mystery Cat
I remember reading somewhere that the tendency of Sorubim lima to hang vertically is an adaptation to disguise itself among reeds.
Personally I think that in most cases when it happens in an aquarium, it's displacement behaviour due to the fish not being in a shoal.
Personally I think that in most cases when it happens in an aquarium, it's displacement behaviour due to the fish not being in a shoal.