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by OregonOutdoorsChris
28 Nov 2024, 17:19
Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
Topic: Hoplisoma osvaldi, new species, Urkumayu, new genus
Replies: 4
Views: 404

Re: Hoplisoma osvaldi, new species, Urkumayu, new genus

And I'm sure you're all on it already, but it looks like the Cat-elog for H. osvaldi might have some copy-paste errors in it. As I'm sure it's not from Lake Tanganyika nor "Could be confused with Synodontis polli" :d
by OregonOutdoorsChris
14 Sep 2024, 04:41
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Shrimp safe w/Raphael's
Replies: 3
Views: 1294

Re: Shrimp safe w/Raphael's

My assumptions would be that they would eat the shrimp, but my experience suggests that maybe cherry shrimp aren't terribly tasty. The shrimp happily munching away outside of the caves holding 3 of 4 raphaels in this tank PXL_20240914_032543256.jpg Another shot just showing more of the shrimp ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
19 Jun 2024, 15:22
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon
Replies: 44
Views: 7732

Re: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon

adjusted the color to a faint blue. My main light bar doesn't do an evening sunset fade, so it's either on or off. My Tatia and Microglanis are very nocturnal so I don't see them in the daytime. I'm hoping the light bar will allow me to see the fish at night without disrupting their behaviors. That ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
18 Jun 2024, 06:34
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon
Replies: 44
Views: 7732

Re: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon

@OregonOutdoorsChris will you be at FIN-DIG 2024 in Sacramento this weekend (June 22-23) or Fishtoberfest in Portland on Sept 28-29? I'll be at both, and speaking at Fishtoberfest. If you make one or the other please introduce yourself to me. I enjoy meeting other PlanetCatfish people. There's zero ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
17 Jun 2024, 16:51
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon
Replies: 44
Views: 7732

Re: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon

I'm excited to see how this turns out! I tried doing something similar last year. PXL_20221212_055330693.jpg I got about 9months of decent plant growth but it ultimately ended in failure. Don't try using coco coir wrapped around egg crate light diffuser as a jump start of your raft. The coir decays ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
17 Jan 2024, 22:41
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
Replies: 8
Views: 4629

Re: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!

Yeah, they're normally chubby and also prone to over eating. I've always got the worry in the back of my mind that this might mask the early stages of bloating, but I've been fortunate to not have to deal with that yet. As far as other good tank makes, the list really is endless. If it doesn't fit ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
16 Jan 2024, 06:17
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
Replies: 8
Views: 4629

Re: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!

I would think two should be fine together in a 55gal. Mine never cause any harm to each other, at most the occasional tail slap or head butt seems to be all that's needed for the bigger fish to tell the little fish to move. I think corys are a fantastic tank mate! Since corys don't use hides, there ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
15 Jan 2024, 07:21
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Attempting the impossible with S. Angelicus
Replies: 12
Views: 4405

Re: Attempting the impossible with S. Angelicus

I'd be curious to hear more about your experiment with Ovaprim in the water column. What was the dosing you used?
by OregonOutdoorsChris
15 Jan 2024, 07:19
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
Replies: 8
Views: 4629

Re: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!

1. They prefer softer water, but they appear to be rather robust, with one of the raphaels I rescued was living ~15years in what was tantamount to brackish water (tank was heavily encrusted with salt scale), and it acclimated to my more neutral water with no hint of an issue. So your parameters are ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
13 Apr 2023, 18:49
Forum: All Resolved Issues
Topic: Login Error
Replies: 3
Views: 951

Re: Login Error

This happened on both Chrome on PC and Chrome on Android.

Interestingly, now if I log out, I am able to log back in through that path without the error. ~X( :))
by OregonOutdoorsChris
13 Apr 2023, 18:45
Forum: All Resolved Issues
Topic: Login Error
Replies: 3
Views: 951

Login Error

I'm getting an error when trying to login from the front page.
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I found there's a login form at the bottom of the forum page and fortunately that works so I can report the issue :d
by OregonOutdoorsChris
23 Mar 2023, 05:27
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

Jools wrote: 22 Mar 2023, 14:50 I really like it because I like seeing plants grow.

Jools
Indeed! And being a woodcat tank, I always knew the weekly photo was going to be about the plants. I just never anticipated the observable growth to be almost entirely the Riccia and java moss.
by OregonOutdoorsChris
22 Mar 2023, 04:56
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

And here's the update I had planned to make, I have reached 1 year of having my perugiae tank restarted. I've been taking a weekly photo to document the changes over time. There's nothing special or dramatic and the catfish stay hidden, but it's a project I've been diligently sticking to so I'm ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
20 Mar 2023, 04:22
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

It's been a while since I've shared any updates, life has been busy and progress in the fish room has been slow. That said I got a surprise sighting of my Microglanis tonight which I figured I'd share. I had withheld pellets from the tank for a few days, and apparently the flakes weren't to its ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
09 Mar 2023, 15:04
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Spawning Synodontis without hormones
Replies: 21
Views: 14563

Re: Spawning Synodontis without hormones

Some of it is in the internet archives... https://web.archive.org/web/20100923044851/http://www.synodontis.net/synodontis/cf_nigrita/zuchtbericht.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20071025022900/http://www.synodontis.net/CONTENT.PHP?AW=209&SD=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20071023044324/http://www ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
15 Jan 2023, 05:50
Forum: Asian Catfishes
Topic: Erethistes jerdoni
Replies: 9
Views: 7088

Re: Erethistes jerdoni

Nice! I am also surprised they survived the geos. Maybe the geos learned to avoid them due to the spines <shrugs>
by OregonOutdoorsChris
26 Nov 2022, 07:12
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Replies: 1568
Views: 627076

Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

Any thoughts on the use of nutritional yeast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_yeast) as a B vitamin supplement for those of us with smaller fish?
by OregonOutdoorsChris
31 Oct 2022, 15:37
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: catfish for pond
Replies: 11
Views: 2129

Re: catfish for pond

How about the common bullhead does not get very large Jeanne I come across Cottus gobio while searching the internet, is this the one you are talking about? They're likely referring to Ameiurus , and not the sculpin. You previously mentioned Corydoras paleatus , another option might be Scleromystax
by OregonOutdoorsChris
17 Oct 2022, 14:58
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Question about l010a
Replies: 6
Views: 949

Re: Question about l010a

Mine have maxed out at the about 4 inch mark.
by OregonOutdoorsChris
16 Oct 2022, 06:42
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

Morning of Day 16: PXL_20221013_163958194.jpg the late evening of day 16 the eggs were still in place, but by the next morning they were all gone. Presumably hatched. But a search of the tank turned up nothing, and being they share this tank with six pictus cats and far too many corys, I wasn't ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
07 Oct 2022, 17:44
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

Day 10 you can clearly see little whiptails in the eggs.
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by OregonOutdoorsChris
05 Oct 2022, 06:16
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

I moved my camera over to the Platydoras tank last night and caught some interesting footage. It seems that they are much more active when I'm not around than I ever imagined And I found this one humorous because she had had enough of his shenanigans...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
28 Sep 2022, 16:39
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

And on the fishy front, I separated out my best looking male and female L010A with the hopes of getting them laying eggs again. Last night I saw the female was in the log pestering the male, so I checked on them again this morning and look what I found! PXL_20220928_145509996~2.jpg This is the first ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
28 Sep 2022, 16:28
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

Also, if you're in Sacramento on the first weekend of the month, please, if you can, swing by RoundTable Pizza on Greenback Ave in Folsom and join us at a Sacramento Aquarium Society meeting. If you do, please introduce yourself to me. I'm the program coordinator there. Thank you for the ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
27 Sep 2022, 01:13
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Walstad Type tank
Replies: 10
Views: 3335

Re: Walstad Type tank

Hi everyone, I would like to thank everybody who contributed to this interesting thread! I have read Diana Walstad's book and wanted to try out the type of tank setup she described. Since my primary focus is on fish keeping and breeding I never even considered the idea of no or minimal water ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
26 Sep 2022, 21:27
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

Sadly, I've never had C141. For corys I've only ever had habrosus and paleatus, though I make sure to always keep some space open in the event I stumble upon some knaacki, C150, C141, or other beautiful spotty species. Sorry, I must have been confusing you with someone who used to live down by me ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
26 Sep 2022, 17:39
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Walstad Type tank
Replies: 10
Views: 3335

Re: Walstad Type tank

Diana Walstad's book, "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist". Unfortunately she doesn't address the suitability of corys, but the book is pure gold with regards to the rest of the information it provides and is a truly invaluable toolkit ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
26 Sep 2022, 05:26
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

I know the odds are low, but do you have the C141 still? It's been several years. Cheers, Eric Sadly, I've never had C141. For corys I've only ever had habrosus and paleatus, though I make sure to always keep some space open in the event I stumble upon some knaacki, C150, C141, or other beautiful ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
26 Sep 2022, 04:53
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 52
Views: 33106

Re: Starting a fishroom

Just some corys enjoying the Sunday morning sunshine
by OregonOutdoorsChris
26 Sep 2022, 04:46
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Walstad Type tank
Replies: 10
Views: 3335

Re: Walstad Type tank

If you haven't already, I would highly recommend checking out Diana Walstad's book, "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist" Unfortunately she doesn't address the suitability of corys, but the book is pure gold with regards to the rest of ...

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