bunocephalus coracoideus / banjo catfish

[steph44]

Hi everyone,

I finally managed to find bunocephalus, though not verrucosus as I expected.
I got 4 yesterday and they are in my 450L south american tank, with small characidae, red sherry shrimps & 1 L081.
Not too many plants, dead oak leaves, dark water, no strong light.

I am willing to hear to get all you can feed me with

I will post pics later tonight.
As far as my parameters are concerned, I've got to measure them with a better mean, because I wonder if it's not gotten a little harder, but test strips suck, so I really want to figure out. I reckon sthg is not right because the strips read the same for my husband's Malawi tank !!

Still, I've just spotted 3 hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis babies

[bronzefry]

Hi Steph!I'm glad you finally got your Banjos. I'm curious about how the shrimp and Banjos are getting along. I would think they might view them as food. Either that, or they might be scared of them. I usually keep Bunocephalus spp. in a species only tank. They either become scared and bury themselves or eat their tankmates. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground. I've recently added 6 more Bunocephalus spp(coracoideus or amazonas). This seems agreeable to the two older species I've had for a few years. They come out during the day more often:The large female seems to dominate the tank. I also recently gave up on the dried oak leaves. Instead, I'm using a lot of java moss. They like to hide in it and it grows nicely. I find it interesting that the younger ones are more active and the older ones are quicker to bury themselves.For water quality, they don't seem very fussy. I have them in a neutral to 6.8pH. The TDS is about 180. I do water changes of 30-40% weekly. I feed them frozen food every other day or every two days.Amanda