first two with fins intact are Midas the last one that is a bit beat up is Matilda. Looking like next week forthem to come home :/ both eating very well now though. Matilda will take food from your hands lol http://img197.imageshack.us/i/imagekzt.jpg/ http://img69.imageshack.us/i/imageqo.jpg/ http ...

I get to see them today, but now not sure they will come home this week as I am unsure if I will be getting a lift in the car :/ May be next week before they can come home now

Hello again :) I have secured the other two Mystus bocourti :D :D :D They come home this coming sunday. I am so excited. One is missing her lovely dorsal and it gave me trouble IDing her as what remains of it was a solid grey colour, not nice and transparent, but she has the gold flashes behind her ...

haha Julie makes a good brew - this is true :P I am back down at the end of Jan to loaf about the shop for a few days. Whenever I get stressed my husband shoves me on a train for the day and I get to look at fish all day. It is the greatest shop I've set foot in! My husband keeps threatening to ...

That is where this lad came from haha. I've already asked Neil about getting more - he thinks he has two left and will check for me. Going to ask if he can get more in the future or see about making another trip down. They are fantastic looking fish! I've only ever seen them in Pier, but these days ...

Hello :) I have a 6.5x2x2 foot tank with plenty of hides - could I keep 3 of these guy in there happily? Are they as hard to find as the Fish of the Month page on them says? Other fish would be: 2x plecs, 2x senegal bichir, and some clown loaches in a few years when they are big enough haha. There ...

I think I will be asking around for someone to take him, there is just no way I can house him for life. Now I know why the tank was free! it is a shame, he seems like a really good little guy, but oscars and polys are about the largest fish I can really get away with - aside from my gibby, but I ...

Kind of like betas then, some are cool with other fish, some aren't. Size wise, what is realistic for him? At the moment he is in a 60x20x24 inch tank. The largest tank I have is 78x24x24 inch. Could he live happily in either of these? Probably as an only fish, or with two large plecos - I have ...

not good news then :/ Are they as bad as the PC profile says? The last owner says he's been with other fish forever and not eaten anyone, but at 2 foot he is hardly full grown. Off to google some more info on them I think! Hmm. Says can reach 50 inches, but 20-24 inches is more common? Is this true ...

Hello. This is a fish that has turned up with a free tank. Beh. Was told he was a small catfish with a red tail - so hoped for a plec or syno. Then was told he was an RTC, but I think he really isn't unless he is the strangest coloured one ever. I had a good hard look and I think Hemibagrus wyckii ...

Someone on another forum has suggested S. Frontosa, what do you guys think? Here are some more pics: http://www.phoenixfish.co.uk/image/forpierforum/Synodontis/MrGrey/SANY0045%20%28640x480%29.jpg A very NOT IMPRESSED Mr Grey in a plant pot. Lots more at: http://www.phoenixfish.co.uk/image ...

Hm, I don't think Schall at all then, either that or he is on drugs :lol: he is the calmest fish in the tank, and has moved from inside the cave to sitting on top of it - I don't think he likes the bare glass. He really just sits there and takes the occasional in-the-faceness of the S. euptera where ...

wow, at this rate he could outlive me haha. I saw him pick at some flake last night, but spit it back out. There is enough food for everyone, and always left overs that I have to scoop out the next morning as the oscar never eats the same amount twice, so its all guess work, but normally there is ...

Donno - he is maybe 6 inches SL, reading that he should be 14.. He is at least 4 years old, I use to think he changed size, but looking at some really old pics and he doesn't seem to have changed at all other then going more brown. Will have to try to scan the old pics in, but they are a bit badly ...

Not sure I can fit 4 more of them in a 5 foot when its time for the clowns to move, will have to think about it though! I've tried, sat for ages in the dark with just a night light so I can just see and never saw him move. He must do at some time. I had originally thought he had gotten stuck and ...

http://www.phoenixfish.co.uk/image/forpierforum/Synodontis/MG01_2009-09-13.jpg This is Mr Grey, one of my 3 rescued Synos. He use to be more grey and is now more brown. I had thought when he was smaller he was bang on a Juvi S. bastiani. However when he went missing 3 years ago I gave up trying to ...

interesting read.

I've lost 2 more pandas. I have no plans of getting more, I do twice as many changes as I use to and still have problems, so I just give up.

Good luck though! Last time I tried a nitrate remover it almost killed my whole tank!

Keep me posted!

You could try a gravy spoon. However, do remember to get the wife out of the house first :lol: lol this reminds me of when my husband came home one day to go "Um. Is there a fork in your fish tank?" I couldn't find anything to hold the cucumber down, and the cucumber was eaten so fast I forgot ...

it was a qt tank. Just lost the last of the origional three. I don't think I will be getting any more pandas. As a side note the others all look good and have grown quite a bit

My last panda from the sick lot died last night well depressing.

hellocat - my msn is saphphx at hotmail dot com

LOL mine trashed the fake ones and left the real ones :P I donno. I gave up on counting and watching. They all seem there still, though they've distroyed all the java moss in the tank, other then that they all seem ok. Not noticed any dead ones, touch wood. I wont be getting more though, I'll get a ...

I have no idea. the only cichlid I own is a b**stard oscar of doom named Pita (short for Pain in the a** - so you can guess ) and he sulks and starves himself if he isn't with the bichir, so I have no idea about them or what to keep them with to be honest. Sorry :/

thanks

that's really weird lol. I've never noticed that at all in other forums. ah well

Maybe I should stop saying P***a and c***dora. lol couldn't hurt

as a side note.. why on earth is c i c h l i d s censored?

How weird.

I use floating pellets for cichlids. For the corys I use sinking goldfish food as well as sinking cory food. My husbands corys will have flaked, but only certian sizes and things.

to be honest I wouldn't think at the moment you are over stocked. If you left them there while they grow to adults you may be, but at the moment it sounds fine. I would think in this case you may be over feeding them a tad if you're getting spikes still. :) I over feed all my fish LMAO! Specially my ...

Unfortunately during the morning feed he looked fine, though on closer inspection he was actually still upright but dead. So I am guessing when he "looked fine" last night (I know they often die "standing up" but I hate to poke them until they haven't moved in some time as it just stresses them out ...

Hiya Ian :) My pandas were microscopic when I got them! So sad. Any idea where I could get some better stock? the clowns are moving to a bigger tank soon, I just worry that the bigger clowns will out eat the little ones. My husband keeps corys and clowns, will have to offer him a swap :) Thanks so ...

So went to the fish room to feed the little dears, and one of my little pandas was swishing about and kept falling on his side. This tank is on a different floor and has its own set of kit and is no way related to the other tank I am having problems with (here: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum ...