I have had the little bullhead running in my aquarium for about 8 months now. I have learned that they are very good eaters and will feed almost anywhere off of any kind of food given to them. My bullhead has grown to about 7" and is competing well with the largemouth bass and bluegill that live in ...

Ewww :oops: This kind of stuff is GROSS If I am thinking of the same stuff you are, this stuff can be pretty disgusting. It could be a fungus or a kind of water-borne mold, which usually lives in areas where there is decomposing bacterial matter or other organic substance. I've been finding this ...

Sounds like a perfectly safe and effective solution to me. You should definitely be careful with the meds, but small doses of ick treatment should not be avoided.

Good luck.

Tim

Hi, :cry: Recently I have been having some bad experiences with my very own special aquarium. A strange disease or pathogen has taken 2 of my pumpkinseed sunfish and has nearly killed our classroom's very special striped rafael. Symptoms & signs of the disease are not at all noticeable until the ...

Oops, my last post forgot to say this. fish growth is indeed proportional to tank size, but the growth/tank size ratio is an exponential figure. A fish can grow to full size in an aquarium, but this usually requires enough food and an aquarium with a length long enough to give the fish space to grow ...

:roll: PLAIN AND SIMPLE SCIENTIFIC FACT: Fish are not like humans. A fish will grow based on its available space, type of diet, and ambient water temperature. This fact is one I have found to be true throughout all of the fishworld. Let this be known. A fish in an aquarium will grow proportional to ...

Yes, I would say that for many fish (the good majority), lighting is not very important for spawning. But keep in mind that probably most nocturnal fishes would need most of the time in the dark or a tank with no lighting at all. Some catfish can be very active with full lighting and would most ...

Hello, Indeed, striped rafaels are fairly peaceful catfish. You cannot count on them feeding on any particular variety of food as they are opportunistic herbivores. My own rafael, which I keep in a 55 gal tank with some bass, panfish, and a yellow bullhead seems to do fine on his own and I've never ...

Hi Trevor

Good to have you here! Banjo's are some interesting catfish, do you have any of your own pictures? Maybe you could teach us a thing or two about them.

Happy catfishing

Tim

Two questions: :?: 1) What is the biggest, meanest, most aggresive and possibly most dangerous catfish in the world? :?: 2) What is meant by Mark Twain's saying: "The catfish is a plenty good enough fish for anyone"? These two things have been on my mind for a long time. Would love to hear anybody's ...

:) Thanks for all of your replies. Today the pleco lives in a custom-built researchtank that I'm guessing holds about 80 gallons of water. In the tank there are also some very big feeder gold fish, a great big white carp that has a disformed spinal column, some tilapia, a couple of bronze colored ...

Heating & Lighting Adjustment If you are breeding catfish, it's a good idea to look for the breeding temperature ranges. Moderate incriments in ambient water temperature can spark spawning behavior, and I know that there are many fish that will spawn continuosly when the tank light is always on. If ...

Hello, Today our marine science lab at my high school houses two giant common plecos. The oldest one is about 18" long and looks like a big fish monster. His story of survival is more amazing. Before I went to the school, our disciplinary officer gave the lab a little pleco that had gotten too big ...

I'm glad that they did allright. Bumblebee cats and plecos have more trouble with new surroundings than different temperatures. Good luck and happy catfishing.

Tim

If the tank is well lit, your catfish may be stressed. I had a channel cat that was trying everything he could to get into a very dark place. If you see your catfish swimming around, compare his chromatophores if you can to see if he looks like he might be stressed. Many catfish make a big deal of ...

Our 55 gallon school aquarium has a rafael and a yellow bullhead. The little bullhead only comes out of his ceramic stump if there is a feast of sturgeon food to be found. The largest yellow bullhead ever caught on record weighed an unusual 4 and a half pounds, in Mormon lake - favorable southern ...

:idea: Striped rafaels are very peaceful catfish. In a 55 gallon aquarium, one that we maintain at our high school, the rafael usually likes to keep to himself and can be a little bit shy. They will never be territorial outside of their own species, but in your case, they might be towards each other ...