I ended up picking up 3 Brochis multiradiatus this past Friday. I like them as well as well as my 3 new Hassar Orestis cats, that I got last friday as well. Unfornatley, I lost 1 Brochis yesterday, just happens with wild fish I guess. But my other 2 are doing quite well, eating as many flakes and ...

Here are my beautys... my all new favorite catfish! They eat everything.
and are my all time favorite cats. Glad I found planet catfish, I was able to id them cuz of you guys. I love them. Sweet catfish, eat everything I offer. Which I was told was hard to get them to eat.

They Came in! Perfectly healthly and fine. Can not be dissappointed.... despite people telling me they are tough to feed, they are eating!!!! Flakes, bloodworms, krill, and live blackworms.
I got 3 nice and fat ones. Got some more coming next week.

Thank you guys for the info! I will be adding sand most likely the day after Christmas! Very busy few weeks ahead. Got my hassars and brochis I love them! They;ll look good in sand.

As per the suggestion of some member on this forum, I am going to be adding sand into my armored catfish display tank. I have 2 of the cats now that are going to be in the tank, which are the 2 megladoras irwini or urnascope (spelling.) On Friday (2 days), I will be getting 4 Hassar Catfish, and 4 ...

what is the price they are asking for htem. I have not seen any available locally and would love them in my 125. I had also read somewhere they don't ship very well, so that is why I was limited to local stores only. They are $20 each and the brochis are $12 each, but I am gonna make out like a ...

I find you can usually make a deals with the staff. I assume this is also the case in the States? Say if the label says "buy five, get one free", and there are seven or eight in the tank, you can usually make an offer to take all of them at a further discount (e.g. all, with say two free). It's not ...

Running at PH 7,5 atm, Hopefully i can maintain this level. But Baking powder and baking soda ? Im not sure what you mean, both of them raise the PH levels dont they ? I have been trying Fosfates ( waterlife 6.5 buffer Lowers or raises PH to 6,5.. Without any progress, it raises to 8ish again, But ...

if you can afford 5 Hadssar and 5 Brochis, I'd suggest to get 6, or more Hassar and leave the Brochis in the shop. Getting a few fish and adding conspecifics later is not a very good idea: the new fishes will need to adapt to your tank while others are already adapted - thus they end up donw the ...

No bother you are welcome, if you do go ahead and buy the B. multiradiatus once the shop has treated and settled them I would recommend buying at least six and picking the smaller younger fish in preference over the larger ones, I have had more success with the smaller specimens, I lost most of my ...

If you're serious about keeping the Hassar , you need to buy every single one that the shop has. They are a shoaling species and must be kept in big groups. Three, or even five, is not enough. Same goes for the Brochis . Your 75 gallon tank doesn't have any sand, which is also absolutely essential ...

The Brochis cats are one of my favourite fish, amazing little armoured tanks cruising about rooting through leaf litter and sand for food,burying their snouts down eye deep with their tails up in the water as they search for food, to see them at their best you will need to keep a good sized group ...

Dave Rinaldo wrote:

Brochis multiradiatus

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Cat-eLog says

100mm (3.9") SL.

Thank you, that's perfect size for me. !

I will be getting a few brochis Cats this Friday. They are pretty good sized about 2.5-3''. I was wondering if they will get any larger than this. Also what foods will they eat? Anyone ever keep them? Experience w/them? Doing a lot of research and hoping to get your o2 on them. If you guys can tell ...

I will be getting 3-5 Hassar Catfish this coming Friday! I would like to get as much info as them as I can. Can you guys tell me what their favorite food is, how big do they get ( I was told they get to 3-6'' by the lfs) so they are perfect for life in my tank, and anything I should need to know ...

Your P.H. IS WICKED HIGH!!!! Please lower it, this could be the cause. With the P.H. that high means the Ammonia must be sky rocketed. I suggest doing about a 50 percent water change. Add some baking powder to bring the P.H. down. Not a lot of baking powder, maybe like 6-7 tablespoons would bring it ...

Guys, I want to thank you all for being proffessional. I know on other forums, not gonna mention forum names but they would be jumping down my throat. I am glad you guys are here to help me w/ any mistakes. :) And yes, I also agree more now after taking the time to read through the posts that I take ...

Hi Alex, OK, so given a hypothetical person who buys a puppy with the intention of enjoying the young years of its life and selling it when it becomes a 4 years old young adult (let's call that a third into its expected average life). Would you call that responsible or irresponsible dog keeping ...

Alex, I note everyone has been polite and we have not sunk to any name calling - well done everyone! I do have a question, would you call your plan with the Megalodoras responsible or irresponsible fishkeeping? Jools There will never be name calling or anything of that nature by me. :) I don't even ...

I am sad that I started it. On the up side, I'm thrilled we are having a relatively civilized, friendly discussion. This is not completely off topic, as it pertains to care of large doradiids, but I think our (invasive) point has been made and Alex's too and it's time to let him exercise his ...

...the MSPCA has nothing to do with fish. It's dogs and cats and mammals... ...And catfish can usually adjust to different temps. The link I provided indicated the MSPCA provides and enforces services for ANIMALS. You can check any biology text to see what is included under the heading: ANIMALS ...

There are a quite a few people in my state that have 1,000 gallon ponds so who knows. Something else struck me as illogical about this statement. You live in Massachusetts, yes? Looking at the Cat-eLog, Oxydoras niger requires a temperature range of 21.0-24.0°C or 69.8-75.2°F. I am assuming that m ...

To my opinion is buying young fish and knowing you can't keep them as an adult a wrong way of keeping fish. Thinking that someone else wants to buy/or have a grown niger is a strange way to legalise the buying of such big fish for yourself. Well thats your o2. I have mine and I like to experince ...

In my eyes both tanks shown here are not the right for Megalodoras, there arent many hiding places in either of them. If there would be some wood in it for example, the fsh would feel much safer and they would not hang out in the corner the whole day. You are right, Daniel. Thanks. As you see ...

As for the niger, once he gets big he will be in a 300 gallon, and then if someone can prove to the owner that he has a tank above 300 gallons, he gets sold. There are a quite a few people in my state that have 1,000 gallon ponds so who knows. I'm sorry to say that this just does not seem like a ...

Hi, why do you want to keep three Brochis? Those fish build up schools, same as the Hassar. Better get six of only one species. In my eyes both tanks shown here are not the right for Megalodoras, there arent many hiding places in either of them. If there would be some wood in it for example, the ...

Viktor Jarikov wrote:I am afraid this plan does not hold water

Why you say that for?

Viktor Jarikov wrote:Is your LFS owner-friend's plan (or current thought) to resell them?

No he keeps them for display, tank now has only a few lima shovelnose cats and redhooks and a giant silver arowana. It's a 300 gallon.

By "Niger catfish", I assume you are referring to Oxydoras niger . This type of fish will quickly outgrow a 125gal tank. Even your Megalodoras uranoscopus will eventually get too big for that tank. I would highly recommend that you get a bigger tank soon or that you think about getting different ...

Hi Alex, Welcome along. I see you've registered a spawning report for this species. Really? Cheers, Jools Thanks for the welcome.... I'm telling you, I'm hooked on this site. :-BD :-C No, I made a mistake. I was trying to add a picture of my cats. Also I am having a hard time getting my profile to ...