Yes your going to get a degree of territorial behavior from any living thing. However my P. Albofasciatus is not very agressive, as you pointed out they like to cruise the tank which is a pretty big territory compared to most others that claim a cave pipe and defend it tenaciousely. I would chalk it ...

Well Im temped to keep them. The cats will probibally wittle them down and thats just free food. Ma and Pa are agressive but no damage done to this point aside from discontent catfish. And Ive had Convicts that cant even protect all their fry, and there pretty tenacious when it comes to parenting.

Just my luck pick two Heros Severum randomly and what are the chances Id get a male and female. Now my favorite catfish tank will soon be infested with cichlids :shock: Needless to say its a bit cramped now that the breeding severum have cut the tank size virtually in half. My poor White line Pim ...

O man I was doing just fine relaxing in my forum untill I started reading about roaches and spiders :evil: . Considering im recovering from a recent(Thursday) Brown Recluse bite. Very unpleasant I must say at the least. Fortunately tissue damage is at a minimum right now but I got bit just under my ...

Is its caudal fin forked or rounded?

Well Ill buy that. Thats the actual logic I was looking for as to the why. But I still dont like it

Yes the availability is a of madtoms and bullheads is a problem im sure, which if put on the market would probibally be more popular. However im still curious as to why they are not more available. Also take a look at some of the native darters in the link i posted. Very colorful and atractive fish ...

This Window seems to be the most inactive in the forum. Granted that Most American catfish are too Robust for keeping but on the other hand so are some of the most popular south americans. What im getting at is there some specific reason that fish out of this genus (ictaluridae) are not more popular ...

In Belgium (wich is about 8 kilometers from my frontporch), they have this stuff called "Kasteelbier" (wich means Castle Beer). It's got 11% of alcohol......and here we have Grolsch Kanon (yup, that's "cannon"), 11,5%. Quadruple from my home-town has been yeasted 4 (!! four!!) times and has almost ...

Wow wish I could pronounce some of those names. O yes must agree that Americans dont think too much of milwaukee. Its like the I cant aford a good beer, beer. Here goes! Fosters lager. "Australian for beer" We americans are suckers for a good comercial. Coors light Dundees Honeybrown lager. Anything ...

I noticed that and promped me to check out what the excitement is all about. Probibally because fish are not very good listeners I guess. However I think ill refrain from posting my musical taste on here because im afraid of SG_Eurystomus and Misty :shock: I prefer my alcohol in the bars (or pubs ...

Yea right! looks like something that I really want to throw in with my prize catfish. Peaceful comunity fish im sure.

Welcome! Good fish to start out with. Very friendly and entertaining fish. You will find out everything you need to know to make him a very happy and healthy fish right here.

Actually its not a hole in the context of a clean little hole. More like having no flesh on the side of my barbs belly, a little bigger than the size of an pencil eraser. Real rough and nasty looking wound. Definitely inflicted by something larger than a barb. I think that this is very possible ...

O NO! Anybody have any reason to beleive that this guy would be prone to sucking holes into barbs? Have not seen this kind of wound before. The barb looks bad but seems to be carying on normally aside from the obvious. hope he pulls through.

Wow this is more benificial than I had anticipated! :lol: Picking up some good material and technique here 8) Im pretty fortunate with a good wife, however I feel I need to round down a few digits due to the guilt from my years of complaining about her spending habbits. Which did work :D . Or maby ...

Anyone else find it necessary to lie about how much we pay for Fish? Also things like driftwood for example. Dont think she would understand why I had to pay so much for a fish that I couldnt resist or a peice of wood.

Just picked up my new L077 yesterday Hes about 4.5 inches and just a beautiful fish. Very nice colors. Looking like he is going to make the underside of an elevated rock his home rather than the driftwood. Pretty good score for my area never seen one of these guys before.

Think that i will stray away from G. Scrophus. Just above the size I hade in mind. However I do believe that i will have to acquire an Cochliodon Sp. along with some more wood. He will go into a 20 G. to start with, then into the 55 G. or the 58 G. later when required. Not any competition for him in ...

Well considering how the only thing i ever find around here is common and brisitle nose plecos I was pleased to find a couple new lovely fish very reasonably priced. Of course I would like to get some information to help me decide to purchase one or both of them. Here goes. Rhino pleco ...

He said he had 2 Blue Channel Catfish(Ictalurus Furcatis)! Not the Ictalurus Punctatus that I think everyone must be speaking of. Ive had one of these babies grow up to 12 inches long in 10 months. And he has 2! Also the oscar will need a 55 minimum to house a single oscar. Unless you are willing to ...

First off, I have been specifically asked to find out what type of tree would be good to grow near the pond (ie. plentry of shade but no invasive roots). If anyone has any pointers I would be most grateful . Bald Cypress would be great in my opinion. Beautiful tree fast growing near water and ...

Considering size and availability alone id say slender madtom {Noturus Exilis). But by the description of "looks like a channel cat" Id agree with silurus and say stonecat also. Compare in the CatElog you might be able to identify it.

Tie his fins behind his back or take out the plants will cure the problem.

Good call silurus! perfect description of a damselfly nymph. Most likely not a dragonfly nymph though. I agree that this will do no harm to fish as long as there not small tetras or guppies. Im kind of curious how this creature got imported into your tank unless you have Damselflys flying around ...

Welcome! Good to have another pro around. Lots of them degrees in this forum lol. Things dont go unsolved very long in here with so many brains in the pickle jar.

sounds like a good time for a fish fry to me

Sorry about your misfortune bro. Looks like this heat wave is covering alot more ground than the UK. Its pretty bad here as well. On top of a drought. Reaking all kinds of havoc. Im sure you heard about the big power failure in the US and Canada, probibally those A/Cs churning away untill the grid ...

OMG is it just me or did jools politely welcome her, make a recomendation to make it easier to help this person in the future, then get cursed at and insulted along with our entire fourm comunity. No love lost here if andrea never shows again.

Leeches are frequently used as catfish bait in the midwest here with pretty good results. I caught a 15 lb icthaluras punctatus on a leech. Asside from that never heard of them just for feeding. I would be worried about them feeding on my fish if you are giving them alive.