thanks guys..

no, i didn't take the pic.. this was taken by my importer friend.. he was asking me to verify ID and i know which forum to post it at of course ;) ..

i'm still thinking if i'll get one.. so it will max at about 10"?

guys, help me to ID this catfish i saw at an importers place.. labelled as zungaro catfish..

update: after about a month of not eating.. i decided to try to treat with an anti-parasite (ocean free) and added a heater.. after a week of treatment my gulper finally ate and has regained her appetite like nothing ever happened.. so back to normal and eating from my hand..

conclusions:
1. she ...

I have been keeping gulpers for a little over three years now. There are eight 7-8 inch fish in a 125 gallon tank. When I first got these cats, they would take food frequently but after several months, I noticed that they would only accept food every three to four weeks so they are now fed around ...

Sounds obvious, but have you checked your heater is working?

A broken (i.e. off) heater could easily account for the behaviour.

If it isn't broken, maybe upping the temp a bit would stimulate its hunger. This is providing you don't suspect the problem is a lack of oxygen due to say nitrite ...

Swimming in the current may indicate that it is indeed something wrong with the water (low oxygen or fish isn't capable of using the oxygen as well as it should).

I would, just to be sure, take some water to the LFS and have them tell you the NUMBERS for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate (not just the ...

i haven't kept this species either so cannot speak from personal experience. However i have kept many fussy & predatory species.

Top quality water is always the most important thing. If the water is 100% guaranteed perfect the next step is to establish the feeding frequency - predators like this ...

*The above is a very good remark; I too think it does more harm than good.

Not having kept this species I can be of little help. However, I've heard that keeping this species is not as easy as the CotM article suggests. Perhaps the food (shrimps and mussels) is a bit one-sided with too little ...

My first question would be:
How large is the fish, and how large is the tank? What's the filtration system?

Is it possible that it's reached the age when they need less frequent feeding?

Generally, force-feeding fish is counterproductive because it stresses the fish, and it's likely that the ...

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need help with my gulper cat..

about 2-1/2 weeks ago she suddenly stopped eating and hasn't eaten since.. i have had her for about 1-1/2 months now and has been eating regularly shrimp & mussels (handfed) when i got her .. but now she will come up, take the food (shrimp or ...

yeah, that looks like its the one.. its looses its spots when it gets bigger? darn i sort of like the spots

i need help on IDing a catfish.. unfortunately i don't have a pic..

i just saw this catfish at an lfs, body shape and color is similar to a Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii .. but it has scattered black spots... its like a Platynematichthys notatus that has a body shape & fins similar to a ...

thanks for the reply guys, what about growth rates?

guys, what is the maximum size of a tigrinus? i've read that they get 24", but in our species info it says 20".. so which of the 2 is more accurate?

also, what is its growth rate from 6"-12" and from 12"-24/20"?

thanks guys.. good to know they would be with me for quite a while

:D I was hoping you would get an answer to your question. I too would like to know how long they live. :D :D Good luck.

i know :) .. i'm really curious because these guys cost a lot so it would be better if they would be with me for at least 5-10 years of course with the proper care of course ...

does anybody know how many years these guys would live to:

L046 zebra pl3co, L025 scarlet pl3co, L014 goldie pl3co, L177 gold nugget and adonis pl3co

thanks

ok thanks guys

hi, can i add a gold nugget L018 to a 50 gal tank with a 4" A. adonis? I heard that nuggets are very territorial with other nuggets and i'm just wondering if it would mistake the adonis for another nugget and get nasty with it?

great, thanks guys

how fast do sunshine pl*co's L014 grow? i'm planning to put them with some discus do you think this would work? thanks

does that go for all loricariidae species? well, if thats the case then i'd have to put some bogwood in there then.. thanks

ok thanks for the help guys

i actually would rather not put any driftwood anymore.. but i don't know if this would affect the pl*co's health in general.. cuz i've heard that ordinary pl*cos need it to chew on the driftwood and get some nutrients.. do both the zebra pl*co & sunshine pl*co need this aswell? as they are more ...

hi guys, i'm fairly new to keeping exotic pl*cos.. so far have only kept the ordinary ones as well as gibbys..

well, i'm planning to buy a sunshine pl*co L014 and put it with my polleni cichlid.. the tank setup is mostly rocks w/out a driftwood.. do you guys think this would be ok? is driftwood a ...

Jools wrote:Not a gibby, it's the same fish as in this post ...

http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=4021

Jools

alright! thanks a lot jools

ok wait.. i'll try to post the url of our site.. i got this guy labeled as a gibby.. but its patterns do not match any of my other gibbiceps.. please help me idenfy

http://www.palhs.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4298

thanks

darn.. i only have the pic in my computer ..

guys, i need help identifying a pl*co.. how do you post a pic?