I also have 3 Sorubim lima which loosely school together but this time all 3 fish were bought on seperate occasions, the oldest of the 3 which is around 14" was bought 2 years before i added the other two which were bought within a few months of each other from different shops.

I think the main ...

Their tank was originally a 48x20x24" (about 80g)and they are now in my somewhat over stocked :oops: (a uncompleted fishhouse has lead to me not being able to install the tanks i wanted so until i have enough money for the electrics the fish are having to all bunk in together) 72x30x24" (around 200g ...

Going back to the topic Pimelodus ornatus can indeed be kept in a group and will school in much the same way as Pimelodus pictus do. Like the pictus they need to be in a group of 3 or more for it to work and they will have the occasional fight where a pair will zoom off around the tank chasing each ...

Hemisorubims will happily accept frozen foods so try feeding a few frozen silver sides or white bait after lights out.

If you think it was bad from a 5" E-cat then wait till its bigger, mines getting on for 14" now and a couple of weeks ago while re attaching the heater it had knocked off the side it shocked me hard enough to knock me on my backside and make me bite my tounge hard enough to draw blood.

That said E ...

Butti's are the devil incarnate, i wouldnt put one with anything i would be upset to find ripped up and dead in the morning. I had two a few years ago which were bought as Tilapia joka which started to cause me problems once they hit 4 inches, soon after that i was down to one as the other killed it ...

You could try feeding the Liearius some much larger food, i found that by giving my 20" L.pictus a whole fresh sardine (roughly 4 inches long) it meant that it spent long enough trying to swallow the larger food that the other fish in the tank could feed. Other than that there isnt much you can do ...

At least 2 more clown loaches should be added as they preffer some company of their own kind but really you should be looking at a larger tank before getting more fish, fire eels can reach over 2 feet and lima shovelnoses reach at least 12 inches.

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my photography sucks almost as much as my camera but someone might be able to clean it up well enough to be used if its suitable.

also there's this one

Yeah i knew that Ageneiosus like most Auchenipterids use internal fertilisation, the male already has the modified first ray of the anal fin, however i didnt expect them to attempt breeding with other fish around. Has anyone successfully bred them and raised their fry in captivity and at what size ...

Not yet but they are still fairly small with the male being around 5" and the female slightly bigger, they are also housed in a community type setting with other cats, a couple of stingrays and a arowana so i wouldnt really expect breeding behaviour but at some point i will probably move them into a ...

Ageneiosus magoi male

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A.magoi female

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Ageneiosus brevifilis

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front view showing huge mouth

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The A.falcirostris are still very small and so are in a 3x18x18" aquarium with a eheim classic 2213 external filter and and fluval 3+ internal filter, tankmates are various other juvie fish which will be moved into larger tanks as they grow.


The Ageneiosus and M.microstoma are the only fish i ...

Whats this, someone on a catfish forum wants to see pictures of a Characin!! Surely you'd rather see pics of some of my nice cats like Ageneiosus magoi and brevifilis or prehaps Malapterus microstoma :P ?

Oh ok then :lol:

these are the A.falcirostris
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It all depends on the dimensions of the 250 gallon tank, IMO with these sedentry long barbeled ambush specialists width is a more important factor than tank length. I currently have a two thirds grown Liearius pictus which is coming on for 20" long in a 6x2x2.5' (LxHxD) which is roughly 220 gallons ...

Whats wrong with just feeding frozen foods to your fish? My 3 limas and 4 baracudas (Acestrorhynchus falcirostris and Acestrorhynchus falcatus) all readily take whitebait, mussel, cockle and shrimp and are all in good health, plus no feeder fish have to suffer to keep them that way.

All your planned fish can be fairly easily weened onto frozen meaty foods such as white bait, cockles, shrimp and mussels. The baracudas may be a bit stuborn but once they get hugry should start to strike at anything silvery that drops though the water, limas once settled will eat practically ...

The Hemisorubim would also work as they are very similar in size and eating ability to the lima but a word of warning is that they are strictly nocturnal and quite reclusive, so if you want a fish that will be out and about where you can see it the lima is the best choice.

I belive that the species can grow much larger than 12 inches in captivity, mine has already reached 12 inches in under a year and is still showing the juvinile charcteristic of the lower lobe of the caudal fin being larger than the upper, in adult fish both lobes should be around the same size ...

I originally identified the fish as S.nigrita on another forum, while i am in no way a expert i still stand by that as the closest looking fish to the picture.

Here is a link to the thread with pictures http://www.invisionplus.net/forums/inde ... wtopic=182

Although i am a lover of large fish i feel that any fish that grows over around 24 inches has no place in a home aquarium, the vast majority of homes are far too small to set up the size of tanks needed to house a 3 foot plus open water dwelling fish which IMO need a tank at least 4 times their ...

I've seen them at that size for £40, £100 seems a bit unrealistic unless you were buying one from a branch of MA.
Selling privately you might be able to get £30 or £40 for it if someone is looking to boost their shoal with non edible sized fish, if you sell back to a shop dont expect any more ...

Limas can be shy. Have some decorative elements that will allow them to camouflage themselves by pretending to be part of the plant life. Very neat how they do that. Only thing I'd caution about with Oscars is to watch the size differential. If O thinks he can swallow them, he'll certainly try ...

Personally i wouldnt keep them in a tank less than 5x2x2, they are a fairly active species which will make full use of the tanks length. I have mine in a 66x30x24" and wish that i could spare the space for a larger tank for them.

Ive had my eldest lima for 7 years and one thing i can say is that this fish is definately not shy or a wuss, it uses its 14" body to full effect in order to get to the food and keep the best territory to the extent of even overpowering a similar size Liearus pictus, the other two limas (both around ...

Thanks Coelacanth.

Are Chalceus species collected in the same loacilty of S.lima then? As far as i could find the two species that are available in the trade (C.macrolepidotus and C.erythrurus) both hail from Guyana where as S.lima is found in Venezuela and Paraguay.
Could anyone suggest a medium ...

As I will soon be expanding my collection of tanks I would like to put one of the larger ones to use as a biotope based around Sorubim lima since this was my first "real" catfish.
The tank will be either a 6x2x2' or a 66x30x24" (depending on which species i stock with) and I plan to decorate as in ...

I have 3 limas and all 3 will occasionally shed their mucas layer though never all at the same time, surely if it was a water quality issue then all 3 limas would be shedding at the same time? I am pretty certain that the shedding is more to do with growth of the fish as my 3 always seem to do it ...

Is that the captive sizes or wild sizes? I have three S.lima and the sizes are almost exactly right for the first two years with my eldest one being close to 14" after around 2 years and the one i added a year later being around 10" and the smallest which was added just 6 months ago is around 6 ...

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A swimmimng pool to keep them in!! That is a lot of very large catfish!