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Why does everyone write this type of fish starred, as if its got a swear word in the middle? Poor fishies.

It's meant to be a tongue-in-cheek thing. Probably to get back at some cichlid-keepers who consider catfish "scavengers".

(This is going up in a new FAQ forum soon, so I hope that it's the last time this question is asked).

I have 25 tanks and I love to point out that my "claim to fame" is there is not one cichlid in my collection!!

Just concentate REALLY hard while your typing and the stars will not appear CICHLID CICHLID CICHLID CICHLID CICHLID CICHLID CICHLID CICHLID CICHLID

coooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllll

Well, although I love both (with catfish winning hands down of course) I have to admit, it's a little offensive sometimes....
seen on the cichlid-forums a couple of million times:

"I have this 10 G tank filled with the worst Malawian Scum available to man.
I need a catfish that eats the turds, but a Pleco poops too much itself. Is a Syno eupterus suitable?"

I mean, REALLY!

"Glass buckets" are the words you usually use Sid.

Yup, that's right.

especially for -true!- 2 to 5G tanks......

I keep my pet roaches in a tank like that, not fish.....

You don't like 'em?
no common roaches, mind! but 3" critters from Madagascar that breed like crazy!

I have other roaches too, Mexican Deadhead Roaches; HUNDREDS of them.
And Giant African millipedes, spiny Stick-insects from Asia, a Giant Snail, 3 fat Axolotls, 3 Red Clawed Yabby's (Australian freshwater lobsters), and Sunbeetles from Ghana.

They're all at school.

Now I need a big hairy Tarantula or Emperorscorpion (knowing myself, probably both) to curb the Roach-herd.

And I'd really like a Giant Toad or -even better- the Equadorian Giant Roach! It's 6"......

You're not into these, Barbie?

I don't which I'm more concerned by. Sids roaches or the fact that the post above with the roach pic was his 666th post.

Yikes!

Are these any use as fish food?

Jools

Ok now that is very very very evil!

Jools don't be too worried, its when he hits 999 you should look out. As 666 is the wrong number for the Debil

Sid, you can get something for that little roach problem you have,in fact there is a complete range of things you can get





Just kidding Sid, you keep whatever you want in your glass buckets, no matter how gross it is. Do you have a tank full of slugs too?

Now what was this thread about again? Oh thats right... CICHLID.

Well i have to admit that some CICHLIDS do look like roaches (it maybe the tropheus)...no offence meant Barbie

667 and counting.....

Are these any use as fish food?

You bet. If you have adult Arowana's and you want them to spawn or in general be in prime shape; breed and feed these roaches.
Arowana's feed on big insects for more than 50% or so, and the substances of these are much more natural for them than feeder fish.

I think,certain big catfishes too (Leiarus,, Perrunichthys, Hemibagrus, Mystus, Bagrus etc) will do fine if the diet consists of more than just fish.

And they're dead easy to breed; a smooth walled tank (Deadhead Roches cannot climb glass; unfortunately Madagascar roaches CAN, so those need a tight lid), and any leftovers from your own food. for example, they love sandwiches, cheese, applecore, bananaskin etc...

O man I was doing just fine relaxing in my forum untill I started reading about roaches and spiders . Considering im recovering from a recent(Thursday) Brown Recluse bite. Very unpleasant I must say at the least. Fortunately tissue damage is at a minimum right now but I got bit just under my knee and im in terrible pain from midcalf to my groin (no that part is ok) But all in all I feel ok unless im awake. Wouldnt recomend these little fiddleback bastards as pets SG.

Oh, but they're quite nice really. I'm not into bugs myself either but I took care of Sids in the holidays and they didn't try to attack me once
So as long as he doesn't bring them over to my place...

By the way, the 666 thing, I know Sid. Be afraid, be very afraid

Barbie wrote:Nope, don't like bugs much, roaches are on the list of REALLY don't like them bugs. I had one in Texas try to keep me prisoner in my hotel room for hours. It would turn and face me like it was ready to pounce when I tried to get out the door. It was 2 inches or more. Those and spiders. Well and ticks, but they're just vampire spiders, so of course they'd be on the list

Barbie

Well as a mater of fact ticks are related to spiders.

michelle56 wrote:Well as a mater of fact ticks are related to spiders.

Isn't that what Barbie just said?

Barbie wrote:Those and spiders. Well and ticks, but they're just vampire spiders, so of course they'd be on the list

Sid and others,
I have kept Hissers and Deathhead roaches for years. The white ones (just after a shed) make excellent food for fish (even small ones as they are soft). The adults can be fed whole to any large catfish species (for me Liosomadoras morrowi and Driftwood cats).
I also usually add a couple good handfulls to my "blender mix" frozen fishfood recipes.

Sid Wrote:

Now I need a big hairy Tarantula or Emperorscorpion (knowing myself, probably both) to curb the Roach-herd.

Why waste them, got a freezer? Besides, Emperors and Tarantulas don't eat very often, no more than one small roach a week (been there, done that). That slow invertibrate metabolism can't keep up with the roaches reproductive rates. I probably have over 1.5 pounds still frozen to feed out (I quit keeping them earlier this year.) When this runs out, I'll re-establish a colony. You really can't find a better high protien fish food.

Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley

Paul.

What does a roach sound like when you put in the liquidiser?

sounds exactly like I was doing a few years back when working in a reptile zoo.

It wasn't roaches, but crickets. I had a few Pantodons and some big Barilius/Rayamas and several Bushfish, Anaspidoglanis-cats, Bichirs etc.
I would take plenty crickets home and freeze them in huge numbers. They made excellent food, but I fed them whole. I had fishes big enough to tackle adult Black Crickets.

Unfortunately my current fish don't eat much protein, most are veggie eaters. For the smaller cats that do, a single roach would be too much.

I just need an alibi to setup a scorpiontank at school, and perhaps setup a tank for a Giant Toad too (Bufo marinus is definitely up to the challenge of eating tons of roaches!), and knowing myself, the schoolpersonnel will fall for it

A Marine toad could likely keep up and even possibly outpace your colonies! The roaches would be nearly ideal food for them. I have always liked these, particularly once they get really big (1+ kg or so).

The Blue-Tongue skink (Tiliqua intermedia) I used to have really enjoyed these as well. I passed her on to a breeder with a larger colony (blond phase female).

Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley

i dont know i think id be in a whole lot o trouble if my wife opened a erware from the frezer and found it full of roachs.

jim

Feeling flashbacks to "Fear Factor" Monday night and hearing hisses behind me!

Do you provide their roaches SG?

No, I really loathe that show.....

It's a bunch of wannabe loosers doing stupid sh*t and getting paid loads of cash....really dumb.

If they want to start a REAL fearfactor, they should dump those people at random in Chzechnia, North Korea or the Occupied Territories or another deadzone of human misery.
THAT would show wich of those white, upperclass twirps would be men or mice!

If they wanna show the world how a tough MoFo they are? Join the Marines, or do something useful and free oppressed people who are suffering, or join the Red Cross or the Firefighting-brigade or the PoliceCorps or something.

Fearfactor....YUK!

I agree 100% SG.
Just trying to get a mental picture of all your friends and it's the closest I could come.
Didn't mean to work you up!

Back to the topic: I always thought those other fish owners were just like us and our Pl*co?

Are these any use as fish food?

in that case can my albino channel cat have the nasty ones in my science classroom?????

Me & My Big Mouth Again?

yeah, yeah, I know; kill the messenger.....

I'm just easily worked up (read: Very P*ssed Off) by what I experience as sheer stupidity, combined with nihilism and commercial greed; all to "entertain" the cow-munching, no-IQ-whatsoever passive couch-potato-TV-crowd.

I mean, REALLY! so many people asleep? or is "Lobotomy through watching TV" the latest fashion? Guess I'm born into the wrong century! Good thing I don't run for Pretzeldent, I would botch it even worse than my good friend George.

Ah, well. I guess I'm sort of a very predictable "forum-joker", just feed me some (political, religious, offensive, or dumb) stuff and KABLOOIE! flying off the handle again.....

So get your kicks & have your fun while I'm still here, while you can