Hi there guys.

I have noticed my one Hoplo to start showing signs of Ich. They recommend here to use aquarium salt at 1 x table spoon per 30-40L of water, also to up the temp to 28-29 Degrees C.

My question.
Does this not effect my catfishes, the bacteria, the plants.

Just a photo of my tank.



I then got this Banjo Catfish, I think it is Pterobunocephalus dolichurus, do you guys think I am right

Here you go

I have got 2 Eupterus catfishes in my 650L tank among other catfishes, Syno's, Cory's etc. There are more than enough hiding spots between the plants, rocks and roots. I do my water changes and feed a proper diet of bloodworm, fish pellets, etc. Recently the one and now the other has started to show ...

Who can be the culprit in my tank to eating all my Annubias plants.

I suspect the Whiptail, there are also 5 Bristlenoses in there but I think it is not them.

It can't be my cories or syno's.
What do you guys think.

Mine at 6 months old.

Also need an ID on this one

I bought 2 of them about 3 months ago and need to know what their names are.

I have got a catfishtank for about 7 month's now with the following stock and parameters. 1.8m x 65 cm x 65 cm ph = 7.6 temp = 26 Degrees Celcius ammonia = 0ppm nitrite = 5 ppm Stock 2 x S.Eupterus 2 x S.Petricola 1 x Pictus Cat 2 x Spotted talking catfish 4 x A.dolichopterus 2 x A.(not sure) 2 x ...

You are spot on, I do have a black substrate and I do have lots of hiding places. OK, so now I know it's not something to do with their diet.

About a month ago I purchased 2 x S.Petricola's and 2 x S. Eupterus. In the LFS tanks they were nicely coloured and light in colour, especially the Eupterus.

In my tank at home they seem to get darker, especially again the Eupterus. Is this normal behavior for certain Syno's to change colour.

I am all against cross breeding of fish. I am not interested in breeding these babies. They are just there to watch and get lots of love from me.

Here are some photos of my tank at 1 month, Still a bit cloudy but it is very slowly clearing up. I think I will leave it as is.

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Konrad, very nice. Gives you that real Amazon river feeling.

And here is one og the other with the white edges.

Here is a photo of one of them.

I recently purchased 4 of these. 2 of them has got the white edges on the dorsal and tail fin and 2 of them not. Is this normal for some of them to lack these white edges. I also introduced them to cucumber this weekend as they do not want to eat the algea and catfish tablets I offer to my Syno's ...

No I didn't boil the wood, the lfs shop owner said that the wood was already tank friendly and matured. Bullshit, I am now sitting with cloudy water, will do 50% water changes every 2-3 days.

3 m I wish, it is 2 m, my mistake. LOL
The filters was for a marine setup and did not want to take them out. The dry side is filled with bioballs and the wet side with lava rocks.

I kept the African Catfishes about 14 years ago when I changed to marines. I now reverted back to my catfishes.
Here is my tank currently. Can't wait to purchase some syno's and plecs.
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I had a catfish tank about 10 years ago with about every synodontis you could imagine, a whole 54 of them, don't worry it was a 3m tank. I now want to go back to my catfishes from marines, I've got 2 questions here. 1. What kind of substrate is best for catfishes, pebbles or sand. 2.Can I leave the ...