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Hello & welcome to PC.
You've got some nice specimens. I've one point I'd like to make: pls provide your Chacas with some shelter. Some wood or leaf litter. They do need shelter to feel comfortable and live longer and happier.

Thanks for the warm welcome! They are in a holding tank for now I'm treating them b4 they go in there new home 4x2x2.I have 7 of them and i'm waiting for 7 more to come in

chacalover wrote:Thanks for the warm welcome! They are in a holding tank for now I'm treating them b4 they go in there new home 4x2x2.I have 7 of them and i'm waiting for 7 more to come in

That explains a lot. Hope to see some pictures of their new home as well in due course.
One tiny Q: how (and what) are you going to feed 14 Chacas?

I'd say guppys if the QT tank is anything to go by
But seriously, yes - I'd be interested as well to know how you go about feeding fish like this.
Oh, and welcome to PC.
Martin

They are eating sinking pellets,worms and guppies every night When they get older I'll try to feed them night crawlers and market shrimp

I used to have 7 Lophiosilurus alexandris in a 8'x30"x2' tank.But I sold them and I really regret that.So I'll try some smaller spec.

Superb looking specimens!

Thanks! The other 7 came in DOA so that sucks but here is a update on the 7 I have.

2 of them are hiding

got these pix from the net.Got to love the white one!

Does anyone know what kind of leaf litter is safe for them?

I've used beech & oak without any problems at all. - the only thing to be aware of is, are these names the same species of tree in different countries of the world??? (Quercus robur (sometimes considered Q. pedunculata) is the english oak)

The European Beech or Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

Thanks RB for the reply! Where can I find them?

in California? good question

the woods in your area; pines or leafed trees?

chacalover wrote:Thanks RB for the reply! Where can I find them?

Err- not a clue i'm afraid - i could post you a sackload (is it legal?) I'm sure there are many suitable trees close by. Avoid evergreen trees & look for deciduous varieties, maybe like maple, sycamore, oak in your neck of the woods & possibly try some in a separate tank/bucket with a few guppys etc if in any doubt (maybe best practice anyway) before risking precious cats.

I have never seen these things ever before.

Those are the wierdest/coolest looking fish I have ever seen. Are they very active after dark? (like hyperactive) Or are they docile when they are swimming around? I want to see a chaca swimming.

all the pix are hiding too, making this topic a bit redundant

hi...
i'm sorry but this is my 1st post here....
i've been watching this forum for quite a while....
i've got 2 chaca bankanensis at home for 6 months, the problem is i cant tell the difference between males and females...
i know that males are longer and females are bulkier but i cant find the pic frm google...
i hope maybe anyone can show me the pic of male and female chaca...

i'm sorry if i said something wrong, but thx fr the answer...

Hi
I'm assuming you have checked out the cateLog page - ?
There are about 9 registered keepers of this fish, so am sure someone will be along soon with the info you need.
HTH
Martin

i did, but got no luck on that....
today, i'm trying to send an email to someone that made some articles on chaca species...
i'm hoping he can help me

btw, thanks for the info...

A friend of mine has bred Chaca chaca. He has kept C. chaca, both forms of C. bankanensis, and also very briefly C. burmensis.

He has had adult C. chaca, and C. bankanensis and using the information from the one spawning he had, and from observations IMo female C. chaca have a browner colouration than the more sandy coloured male. Similar colour differences can sometimes be found in C. bankanensis Archipelagic form.

See http://www.scotcat.com/articles/article90.htm

and: http://www.petfrd.com/forum/showthread. ... ight=Chaca