is there a picture of the four-line in the cat-elog? mine are spotted. do pictus grow to 8 inches? the cat-elog says 4.7, but the LFS worker told me 8.

alas, those aren't available to me here in my town. All we have is a small PetCity. those freeze dried guys are as good as it gets for me. My food options (that I have purchased) are as follows:
freeze dried bloodworms
shrimps (the tiny ones in the omega canister, if you know what I mean)
shrimp ...

well, I tried freeze-dried bloodworms as well last night, but they float on the top, and although my pictus will occasionally swim up that way he never took any interest. is there a trick to getting them to sink?

I may be wrong, but I imagine the water in Newfoundland is very good, with low levels of nitrates.


Well, I can't really say anything about nitrates, but it's a perfect 7.0 in my town anyway, which is very convenient.

Thank you all for your help, you all certainly know quite a deal! I will let ...

thanks for the replies so far! they are very releiving! SO why would I need to stay on top of w/c? food is understandable. also, I think I may have to get another pictus as I have two and that isn't a good number, and I'm attached to my new one... if I have one big one and one small one, should I ...

so even the barbel will heal? because it looks like it'd be pretty easy to break off should it get in any compromising positions. what if it did break off, how would this affect the fish and would it grow back, as good as normal?

Hello all;
I was wondering about pictus cats - are they better in groups of threes? I currently have two and one is a might bit bigger than the other. I got him yesterday, and I've had my smaller pictus for about a month. Also, my bigger one, since coming home, has endured some injuries. At the ...