Welcome back!!! Bad news about the L25 though :cry: Thanks Richard! yeah it sucks about the L25 as i've yet to see one as coloured up as mine was but the search will continue! On the upside tho, my granulosus is doing just great! still the first out to feed as always and is a stunner, the only ...

I Dunno I'm away for a lil while and come back and its all changed!...Looking good by the way! I've been busy with the rest of my life unfortunatly so not been around much, though im mostly back now i think :lol: For those of you that have seen and know of my L25 there be some bad news.... last week ...

Amanda has already come through, but I know from expereience that promises of articles are different from quality articles arriving in your inbox. I'm looking forward to all these pledges coming through! Ahhhh I knew there was something i had forgotten to finish!.... I havnt forgotten i still owe ...

It looks pretty genuine to me (i've got 4 of the lil guys currently) the only thing that does send up a red flag for me is the shape of its dorsal fin, however im not too sure from the pic. hopefully it is genuine.

I was working in this power station and just hanging out by the engineering stores when this guy went up to the storeman and said "I need a 0-25mm micrometer and a 14lb sledgehammer please", what do you think he was going to do with this combination of tools? you would be surprised by the amount of ...

I'll cast my vote for canon too, I have a 300D personally, but have used the 1D, 1Ds 10D and 20D's too all are excellent cameras. If you have the money spare the most important part is the lens and when i was working in photography i was using canons L-Glass fluorite lenses, including a Canon 500mm ...

I have a B. juruense, and to start with it turned its nose up at dead or preprepared food, however though it sounds cruel the best way i have used to wean my predator's off live food is to carefully "starve" them it sounds cruel but if you are careful about it and offer some dead/prepared food a few ...

unfortunatly i'm going to have to miss it this time i've got a pile of work to do and a couple of early launch dates to meet early next week so ill be working this weekend.

have a good day for all those who make it.
if there ever will be a second meet up ill endevour to make it to that one.

Jools wrote:
Anyone else coming? Even for Saturday?

Jools

Ill try to be there. cant guarantee it though, ill know for sure tommorow.

racoll wrote:I'm all booked in.

Lets hope my car makes it.............

Steam driven?

Seems I'm being conspired against its been pretty quite all year and now everyone dumps work on me so I'm hoping that I'll still be able to come, wont know for a few more days though. i should be able to come up for at least one day if not the night too.

I truly wonder if any catfish will be happy with a Jack Dempsey around.... I would normally agree, but i have found it does depend very much on the individual, I have an adult Jack Dempsey residing in a tank (for over a year) with many cats, my particular Dempsey is rather peaceful and i have never ...

given the small size of currently available fish and the rarity before when halfgrown or fully mature fishes were imported as oddballs, looks like someone managed to breed this species. I would agree, mine is pretty small probably just over 1 inch SL. I am told its wild caught though. but i dunno ...

i appologise for the fish gloat but i've been looking for this guy for a loong time, and finally i get a call so i snap one up right away, hes small but perfect. and not shy at all, infact he hides sure, but within 30 seconds of putting food into the tank hes out :lol: hes a greedy lil guy too. http ...

Does he ever fight/squable with any other fish? i've noticed a similar reaction with a couple of my synos (yea i know different family but still) i have two S. albertis that fight everynow and then and one of them will almost turn totally silver during the aggression and a short while after.

A good observation, which was also made by sidguppy some posts up. He spoke of of a "South American giraffe nose" (which is Auchenoglanis occidentalis), which makes a lot of sense because the head shape of both A. occidentalis and O. niger look very similar. heh good point :oops: , didnt notice ...

If you do use plywood/epoxy in a tankm just make sure there are no panaques in there, my Royal would make short work of that epoxy in no time.... Also i believe that marine ply isnt totally waterproof in full contact/submergence applications without further treatment such as epoxying/painting as it ...

I added a few notes tonight about S decorus, and H Litorale, and I have to say its an excelent idea, such a good way of having peoples experiances and notes about a species easily accessable without needing to search the forum, very well laid out and easy to use reminds me of my db apps days, never ...

I agree with jools I can see the "look" Pseudoplatystoma in it, its an odd creature, something just doesnt sit right with me, hard to put my finger on it. Seems to me that the eyes are too big to be either Pseudoplatystoma or Oxydoras niger and at least to me the dorsal looks kinda dispropotionate ...

The worst i had was my largest S. eupterus was rearranging some bogwood and accidently startled it cause i didnt see it underneath/behind the piece i reached for and ended up with its pectoral spine through the bit of webbing skin between my thumb and forefinger, that was insanly painfull for hours ...

lol i was wondering that too. May sounds good, coming upto boating season so the workshops getting busy but i should be able to let myself have a weekend off :lol: So, you're up for the overnight? Jools all being well yeah i think i am. ill know for sure closer to the time though. who is arranging ...

lol i was wondering that too. May sounds good, coming upto boating season so the workshops getting busy but i should be able to let myself have a weekend off

i might be able to make it depending on how busy business is down here when you've got a day set.

I agree with the others, definatly not true decorus. unfortunatly it seems to be yet another hybrid. :( the dorsal rigid fin ray isnt quite the right shape and the dotted markings over the head are too large. And the humeral process (from what i can make out) is pointed as opposed to the more ...

whoops my bad, i should have mentioned the name of it for those who didn't know it by sight straight away, thankyou Mats

Synodontis eupterus can be quiet shy and prefer subdued lighting, if you wish to see the fish at its best some overhanging bogwood or similar would be nice, in my 6 foot tank i have an adult eupterus thats settled into one of the bogwood "caves" however i have a massive piece of bogwood that spans ...

i unfortunatly agree with the others, that is definatly a hybrid, i have personally seen an adult version of a granulosus hybrid and whist they seem to be a "pretty" fish they are definatly not granulosus. As richard said, the true juviniles look identical to adults.

well finally i managed to save up enough cash to lay my hands on one of these perfect lil fellas, absolutly rubbish photo while it was still in the bag aclimatising but there will be better ones to follow soon!. Its a perfect specimin and is from the batch that were tank bred reported about on here ...

You know, I could host those files and add them to the catelog... Jools Your welcome to, to behonest i hadn't thought about offering them before. I've been doing some research into how catfish react to sound and how they interact with eachother when they produce sound etc, which is why i recorded ...

The identification of a Liosomadoras morrowi in the "whats my catfish?" section prompted me to dig up a couple of files from my hydrophone recordings during my research. so here they are: I've heard this pattern several times from my Liosomadoras morrowi , usually because he has a real problem with ...