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im near Stirling in central Scotland, about 20mins from Bathgate where Jools is

Hi!
I'm Bjorn. I'm norwegian, new to the group, but got my first aquarium experience with small Eels (our native species)25 years ago, at the age of 10. I'm not very much into cats, but I'm really fond of fish! Thats why catfish!

Interesting theory this "The total number of catfish keepers in any given area is inversely proportionate to the number of individual catfish occuring in the wild in that area." as some in the group wrote...

No native catfish species in Norway...

So I moved to Sweden; here it is at least 1 (one!) species of catfish, namely the European Catfish, weighing up to more than 300 pounds/150 metric kilos. It would actually be able to SWALLOW all my aquarias just like we eat like.. chips?!

The only "wild-living" catfish I've heard of in Oslo, Norway was the small north american catfish Charlie, living in one of my friends aquariums. To make the story shorter, Charlie grew up very very fast, with fewer and fewer other tankmates... his friends for dinner, etc... He was then more than half a kilo, and needed a more luxurious housing.

He was released into a small troutlake close to the coast, that he would shurely like.
The year after, another friend, working in a sportfishing store, tells me that a heavily breathing sportfisherman had run into the store, and bought lots of brand new fishing equipment,because he had caught this catfish in this lake, and should use the next weekends fishing for catfish... luckily these fishermen practise the so called catch and release... He was so excited, that my friend didn't have the heart to destroy his joy and tell him he'd caught Charlie... Poor Charlie... probably this teached him a lesson not to chew on anything with a hook in it... (he probably doesnt like fishermen, or aquasodomites that a friend calls them..)

After this funny incident there has actually been released (by the government/county hatchery) catfish of this small species in a very few lakes in southern Norway, and they thrive! Don't know if they spawn there. They grow to maybe one kilo.

In my tanks there are cic-beep-beep-beep-ids (banned word I see..), shrimps, Rainbows and catfish; Corys and Banjos. And freshwater pufferfish. Other than aquatic stuff I grow the very opposite thing: cacti. Thats almost like the head in the freezer and the feet in the oven, but on an average it is quite enjoyable.

Best Fishes!

Bjorn

hi I'm from Northland - at the top of New Zealand - sue

'Aight, this is an easy one... I am from Mexico!

Hello! I'm from Alaska!

Edmonton, Alberta Canada - home of the Oilers & Eskimos, City of Champions

(and decidedly cool at the moment, with -35 to look forward to, but then those in Scandinavia know of which I speak)

skol!

i am from charlotte north carolina, on the southeastern seaboard.

Hey there, South East London here

I'am from Oklahoma. is there any other people from Oklahoma?

Hello all!

I just joined today. I am a 26 year old gal from Finland. Anybody else from Finland here? I live in the capital, Helsinki. I have one bristlenose and one L200 plus some goldfish, rasobras and some other fish.

Hi!
Tervetuola! Welcome! If you go through the memberlist, you will find several members from Finland in this forum! I'm norwegian (norjalainen) but lived a while in Espoo (Iviesniemi) just outside Helsinki, in the nineties.

Moi!

Hello!
I live in Madrid (Spain).
People who live here are known as "cats" because we live in the street at night.
Bye.

Walter wrote:Well, Lion King ;) ,
In Austria most of the younger people are also able to speak English more or less well, but many of the older ones do not. And I know more than one "old and very experienced aquarist" ;)

Even here in the Grand Ol' USA we all don't speak very good English. You'd be surprised by the amount of Spanish - only speaking people in the Southwestern US.

Ahhh! Viennna. Birthplace of a wonderful lager style: Vienna Lager. As you can see the jealosy of your close proximatey to Vienna, Germany, Britain, and Belgium. The areas that such fine beer was made first and part of the reason that we aqaurists understand water hardness, pH, and enzymatic reactions!

Walter: Please drink one of the best beers that Vienna has to offer!

Sorry about my digression. It's just overpowering when I see beer and Catfishes join forces!

Thanks,

Scott

hi ppl
i'm from new zealand

Hi Scott,

Beersnob wrote:

Walter wrote:
Walter: Please drink one of the best beers that Vienna has to offer!

don´t know, if you´ve been already in Vienna, Austria or Germany.
But the sort of beer called "Lager" ist not the best one. It´s mostly for export. The better ones are called "Helles", "Dunkles", "Pils", "Bock" or whatever, "Märzen" is also not that good. Don´t know, if they are also for export.
But you are right, things we are proud of in Austria is our good food, good beer, good wine and good coffee.
The English speaking part of the world is a little bit underdeveloped in these things, we say ;)
But don´t be sad, instead of this you have the better computers, the better hamburgers and the coolest skiing heroes (We like Bode Miller , and, for Great Britain, Eddy "the Eagle" Edwards ).

BTW: my favourite beer comes the same part of Austria as governer Terminator, from Steiermark, it´s called "Puntigamer Helles".

Hi everybody , just jioned on today, iam japanese and live in tokyo at the moment.
hope you will forgive the bad spelling, i was nerver good in english

Greetings! I am new to the forum & new to keeping fish. I have not set up my tank as of yet, want to learn a bit more before I start. I use to have a tank along ago, but never really did much to it.

In the past two years a good friend & fish lover shared Planet Catfish with me. I never knew that there were so many cats! In the past year I fell in love with the L046 & hope to have one in my new tank. I hope that I can get pointers from everyone here; would love to be successful in this new passion of mine.

Warmest regards,

kissing_fish [/b]
Hallandale Beach, Florida

From Sweden- don´t write in the forum allmost at all but reads a lot in it! catfish has come to be the central thing in my aquariums and a passion to breed(in small amounts just for the intrest by anyway) them.

sadly, it´s hard to get hold of many spices(i don´t mean eg curry... i just can´t remember the spelling!;) i have 3 tanks at the moment and probobly more on the way

California...

I can't vote! Was it a certain number of days one?

Anyway, I am living in England but I am Scottish.

I'm a New Yorker who lives on Long Island. That's the part that sticks out into the ocean and looks like a fish!

i'm from aberdeen in north east scotland

Puerto Rico in the caribbean is where I call home

I don't post a lot, but read here voraciously. I am in Helena, Arkansas, home of the King Biscuit Blues Festival.

I'm from Christchurch, New Zealand

plenty of catfish here put fish cost alot more they are alot healthier than most places though (i guess the 6 week quarantine period does some good )

Greetings from Istanbul, Turkey!
I'm one of the moderators of the forum of Istanbul Aquarium Club (it's a general aquarium forum - in Turkish - and i'm the moderator of the catfish part and a few some others). In Turkey, catfish are not so popular yet, so even me was able to be the moderator on this subject.
It will be better for me (and for the kind people trying to answer the questions) to post messages/ask questions only after I'm finished with reading all the planetcatfish forum, so see you a few months later!
Bye for now!

hi all im from Brisbane Australia,allthough i dont post very often, i am always on here to find new information. Great site thats has something for everyonew who loves Kats, and yes even tho i live in Oz my faves are Sth African , i do have baby tandanus that i am hand taming atm tho.. v vv cute cheers all Kate

Guys,
its only a pole !!! People
i am from the land down under .

Wall

Hi i'm form Finland and i'm just 13. As you can see the finnish people must learn english very young becouse Finnish is not a known language . I begun learnig English when i was 6 years old. In Finland many have pleco's and other catfish in there tank's, but almost no catfish breeders.

Jag kan också svenska .
Il parlait francais ( i guess )