Thanks for the input Bas pels, in hindsight I should have stuck with the salt but my emotions got the better of me and as will always be the case the consequence was quick to reveal its self. Part of me knew she wouldn’t make it through the night. I’ll do several 50% water changes to remove the maj ...

I have an update and its not great... The female seemed to recover a little after the salt treatment and water changes so I gave the tank some food and waited a day before I did another water change. In this time I noticed that she seemed to deteriorate so I did another water change last night and ...

Just wanted to do a quick update The female is still alive and doing fairly well, the redness has subsided but there now appear to be some translucent filaments hanging from the open wounds. It doesn't look like any bacterial infection I've ever seen before, the filaments are long and thicker than ...

Thanks for the responses guys! I'm going to an lfs today so I can grab some aquarium salt and get some floating plants (I have some water lettuce I tried to bring back in there but its not stable enough for nesting. Also Bas Pels I appreciate you saying that, I was little panicked last night but I ...

Hello everyone I haven’t posted fir a while but I’m still knee deep in catfish! I’m posting because I need some advice on something that started happening to my female Megalechis picta Just now I was looking at her and I honestly though she was dead until she took off, she was lying motionless on the ...

:-?? My brother Was stung by a Ariopsis felis many years ago before either of us knew about the three spikes- he attempted to push the unhooked fish back into the ocean with the sole of his foot and the spike went right to the bone. The slime of this catfish is actually the part that contains the ...

The fish swimming above looks like or a close relative, I don’t know what the bottom fish is though

That one of the many things I love about catfish, you can find some awesome fish hidden amongst the masses. My Pseudomystus funebris was left over from a group of Pseudomystus siamensis , my Synodontis contractus was the last of a Synodontis nigriventris order and I picked out my pair of ...

Looks like a to me, hopefully more will chime in though

I think the acanthicus group has it for length and over all size and Panaque probably get the award for most watermelon like and can certainly obtain an impressive size.

Venom in general is not something to be taken lightly- different venoms target different systems in your body and either temporarily impair them or shut them down/destroy them. I can't speak for the venom of Heteropneustes fossilis as I don't know its chemical properties or its affects on the human ...

I forget how many types of whiptails there are but... that many...

I've only had Corydoras pygmaeus for a few weeks now but in my heavily planted 208 litre (under my tanks its "The over hang") the six of them live with: 11 ember tetras 3 rummy nose (was 10 but there was an incident with Microglanis iheringi before the ember tetras where added...) 4 Hypancistrus sp ...

As stated I don’t think it would have an impact on bottom dwellers but I could see it having an effect on a topwater species like hatchets or aros. I would imagine the wet vs dry season would also effect the clarity of the water and thus the amount of uva and uvb rays that could penetrate and affect ...

Thanks Daniel, the photos in the link look pretty spot on! Whatever they are I’ll probably be taking a handful home sooner or later, I think they’re stunning!

Thanks for chiming in guys! You raise a good point Eric but one of the different looking ones is the same size as one of the L129 although the majority of them are on the smaller side. I also looked at some soawning report photos for the L129 and the young ones seem to have finer white lines than ...

We got a bag of from Columbia and some of them stand out with more of a barred pattern instead of the thinner lines and overall darker colour of the .

Thanks in advance!

I would imagine its largely environmental conditions like water clarity, lights, and how the fish swims and its overall shape all come into play- I'm not sure if I would assume its genetic or that I would assume anything for that matter. If it is a polygenic trait then you would be able to produce ...

Looks like or to me but I could be mistaken

Check out the Shanes world article by clicking this link, hopefully this helps! https://www.planetcatfish.com/shaneswor ... cle_id=419

Those are fantastic photos!

F15CathyShark wrote: ↑23 Nov 2017, 09:35

Jobro wrote: ↑22 Nov 2017, 15:12 Check your woods/roots. They seem to be heavily fungused...

I'm actually not sure about what on them, I thought it's biofilm.....

It is a fungus of sorts but it was my understanding that its harmless and that it goes away eventually as the fish cleaning it up (to no ill effect).

I also have better photos of the whip tails and their ventral scales if that helps any!

I know these photos aren’t quite up to par with my usual macro photography, I’ve been putting it off but if some macro shots would help I can bring out the big guns!

So I pulled that syno out at work and looked at his mouth, I’m starting to think this is Synodontis contractus ! I also learn’t that it was left over from the prevoius store which means its been there for at least 3 months with a daily feeding regiment and is still this size. Perhaps these photos can ...

Well I actually ended up purchasing Pseudomystus funebris instead of the synodontis on the assumption that Jools is correct and it could outgrow the 8.5 gallon tank and that the movement of the Pseudomystus funebris is much slower and shark like (which is one of the main reasons I love catfish)! I ...

Thanks Shane! I ended up taking a pass on the female in the end but its good to know for future reference!

Hi Panaque!

I have been looking through that group, to my untrained eye the best fit would be but I don’t know enough about the group to feel confident about that.

Last but not least- another one from work, I was thinking some sort of bagrid but nothing seemed quite right while scanning through the clog. Only the one picture for now but like the syno, might be able to get some pics tomorrow at work.

Thanks in advance!

Next up- to Africa! Now this one I actually don’t have any photos of- I only have a video as of now but could get some more photos tomorrow at work. For now perhaps this screen shot of the video will suffice? I beleive this to be a lone Synodontis contractus left over from an order of Synodontis n ...

Hello everyone! Well I’ve got 3 cats I’m hoping to get IDs for, 3 different species- because I’m unsure what order the images I attach will show up in I’m going to have pics of one species per each post and I’ll have 3 of those in total all contained in this one thread. First of all- whiptails! This ...