Banjo's

All posts regarding the care and breeding of these catfishes from South America.
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Malloot
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Post by Malloot »

Yeeaah!!

I picked up 9 banjo cats this night!!
I'm a very happy guy now!!
Now the hard work should be giving them the right sientific name. :P

See ya
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Post by Silurus »

Got pics? We can probably narrow it down some.
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SirHelm
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Post by SirHelm »

I picked up a couple on friday. The LFS didn't know if they were dead or alive! We could see one's gills moving... the other one showed no life! Got them home and in a matter of 3 minutes with the lights off they were buried in the sand!! WAY COOL!

Also I have been watching them move around. They do move around more than I thought when the lights are off (have nightvision on my handi-cam). Cool thing is that they are like moving statues. Everytime I put the lights on they are in a different location, totally statue like.

I must say... so far these are my favourite cats!

(Holpos rank high.. but with me losing 5 outta 6, and the 6th with some sort of horrible disease... they have dropped somewhat!)

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Post by wayneminot »

I've never seen a banjo in a lfs. I would like to get some but have never seen any maybe I'll ask the lfs if they can order some for me.
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Post by Dinyar »

The two kinds of banjos I see most often in LFS are Bunocephalus coracoeidus and B. verrucosus. (Sorry for any misspellings. Too lazy to check the Kate-Log.) Of the two, the latter is IMO by far the more interesing and active.

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