hmm alrite

so then what do i do about the carbon? lol. like what do i replace it with? because the filter already has a set of 4 sponges, then the blue spikey balls and then the white cylinder rocks, then the last level is the carbon. although the other filter has no spikey balls and two layers of white ...

yes fluval! thats it. its like a fluval 450 or something. i thought the carbon was always supposed to be in the filter? everytime we clean it we change the carbon and put new in. and when we treat with medicines, we try to take it out for the time we are treating since it sucks all the medicines ...

i can't remember the name of the filters we have and i won't be able to go look til later since i'm not there. but i believe it starts with a "F". but we have two 100 gallon filters for the tank. they are those bio-filters i believe. it has a section for carbon, one for these little white rocks and ...

I'm excited for you, those cats suggested are beautiful! I guess the first step would be to make sure all is perfect with the tank filters etc (don't clean them in tap water!) and then see what conditions the tank water has naturally. If you check those and list them here, the regulars can ...

good move! if you like imposing larger catfish, but one that can swim about comfortably in a 150G tank, I don't think you can get anything better than these: Aguarunichthys spp there are a few species, but they look a LOT alike. all are very very beautiful, and with an adult length of 1 foot or so ...

L number Banana wrote:Big tank? Oo, see if you can find this one - check out the video on the species page. That's a catfish!

Neosilurus ater

lol that catfish looks like a maple tree seed with whiskers. lol. interesting tho...

Cool! Good for Mr.Lee! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Now of course you're addicted to catfish, so let's find you a smaller one to keep your hobby going in the right direction :lol: I vote for Synodontis multipunctatus or Pimelodus pictus , both stay small, look very whiskery and cat-fishy and should be ...

lol no he was foreign object free. no, i dont have any pictures of his new place, the big dude thought i was weird enough cause i named him lol. but its a pretty tank down in the middle of the basement of the store. uh we put him in the big bucket they gave us when we got him. of course hes a couple ...

mr. lee got a home!!!!!
thank god.

the day before we moved, we remembered the place we bought him, and decided to call them and they said sure! we dropped him off and they put him in a spacious 3,000 gallon pond/tank thing.

thanks for all your comments and help along the way.

-amber

thanks Mats & alaskan

Yos wrote:Sorry, I just thought it would have been a funny thing to say. At least that is what I was trying for.

haha it was funny, was just saying tho lol

Hrrm. I vote you put a serious number of Endlers in there and see who wins. . . I bet the endlers would reproduce so fast Mr. Lee wouldn't be able to eat them all. I can donate 50 to the cause. . . Oh wait it is up to 65 now. Err. . .make that 75. Umm. . . 80? this is gonna sound silly, but uh what ...

I take it this is the reason I tell all the local LFS not to stock red tailed catfish? Some of the local stores listen, most are petco and don't. we got him from a specialty store actually. he came in with a batch of other unrelated fish so they kinda just had him. i don't know how exactly that ...

I guess you'll just have to eat him back to pay for what he did to his friends.... eye for an eye... nom for a nom? lmao thanks, yea you're actually not the first person to suggest that. after he ate the pleco, my roommates brother was like, "hey we can finally fry him up right?!" we are not eating ...

Mystical, It is to the south and west of Baltimore... I am not real familiar with New Jersey, but I had hoped you lived in the south. Still, if you can't find anything closer to you I am sure they would take him. I recall they already had several large red tails. Mike C. i found a couple places. i ...

You may try this store in Maryland... I have only been there a couple of times but it is nice and it says they rescue large fish. I am not sure how far away it is from you, but I can't imagine it is more than an hour or so. http://www.houseoftropicals.net/map-directions.html Mike where in maryland ...

Yes, of course it can be done, but if the ambient temperature of a 4000 gal pond is 50'F below the target temperature (e.g. 25'F and target temp 75'F - this difference is claled delta), you need some SERIOUS amount of heating. If you can keep the temperature above, say, 72'F, you'd be fine. But as ...

really? i was told that as long as it had a heater it would be okay?
we don't have room for a pond anyway, but thats at least what i thought.

haha well, he is a strange one. in fact most of the stuff he has eaten (sans Bob) have been stuff he's actually had to dig up. like the planters were all under the gravel because they once had plants in them that died. not only did he dig them up, but he also took out the rocks & the plant bulbs ...

no, we're not. i've posted on a forum to try and find someone to take him, but im also looking into this place here in new jersey that specializes in catfishes and pirhannas.

oooh, i'll have to look them up. we are going to restart our tank once we move. maybe we'll get some of those

yea, the pond thing was a major last resort. i dont think i'd have the heart to let my bf do that. anyway, im on monster fish right now, making a post. hopefully someone will want him!!

oh and yes andy, he will be in a pretty much empty tank until we move. at least we're going to try. because we really have no place else to put the other fish except a 20 gallon tank and that would be way too small. and mr lee can jump out of it so. but we'll figure something out. were gonna take ...

i was just looking at that site!! lol. actually i was googling stuff to see, and oddly enough, monsterfish & planetcatfish came up next too each other. i'm going to check it out. i was actually wondering if any of you would know, if a "domesticated" catfish like lee would survive in a pond. a ...

Well yes Captain Obvious, it would appear by my previous posts that, yes the catfish would eventually begin to snack on his tankmates, but i thought i had some time, especially since he has never bothered them. he has grown along with majority of our fish and the oscars are much too large for him to ...

well i understand that. but i also didn't think the pleco would fit in his mouth yet. but apparentlly, he can. most of the objects he was eating though weren't living and most of them still didn't fit down his throat. so yea, i understand that whole "whatever fits in his mouth" theory, just wasn't ...

you have gorgeous tanks & fish.
i was wondering if you saw the new lime green corys? i was at the pet store the other day and they had a tank full of them. they were very pretty.

he ate bob, he was about a year and a half old. 8 inches so or long, but he had a really wide head bout 3 inches. these are the pictures i could find off hand. http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll116/mysoldierroxmysox/may7thru11th2009/may7thru11th2009213.jpg http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll116 ...

so we've been waiting on the university to see if they would adopt mister lee since we are moving and can't get a bigger tank for him. meanwhile, mr. lee has decided to start eating his tankmates. we bought them 100 feeder fish over the weekend, and there was about 30 left, mostly the bigger ones ...