thank you all for the kind reply's. i will endeavor to update this as thing progress through the summer months. im expecting a growth spurt as he has started to feed after i introduces some small fish (which he hasn't touch so could be coincident) but we will see. ref the heaters, i do have a couple...

i'm not very active on here and i really should be so i apologize for that. i am the proud owner of a goonch (yarrelli) that i picked up around march last year. over the last year i have run a sort of experiment with my goonch and i figured i would share some of what i have been doing and my finding...

Hi mate Nitrite were 5ppm Nirates were 20ppm Ammonia unknown Set up is 60G, 4ft x20"x15" semie planted loads of drift wood. It was set up 10days ago. All the substrate was from the previous tank which was 55G but larger surface area and not as deep. Only thing added was a larger bit of dri...

Hi all, I recently move my tanks around, the new cat tank is the same volume but different size tank. It was a one for one on substrate, filters, decore but in the last week I have lost one 5" Batrochoglanis raninus and two SA bumble bee cats. Only indication is like a white/ cloudy area around...

lol thanks mate i think its all a game of guess with these

Looking nice! I'd certainly add more cover for the catfish. Maybe more bogwood, some clay pots or tubes perhaps? I think they will feel vulnerable unless they have at least one hiding spot each. thanks, the drift wood is hollow, but if you look to the left and right of it there is two black pipes i...

well the tank is now up and running, a few changes to the plan. I'm currently using plastic plants and my defuses didn't work how I wonted it so I went with then spray bar but I think it looks good.

well I grabbed some quick snaps today while i was doing there water change in this pic you can see the taper into the tail is more distinct in one than the other, http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/titan350cc/IMG_20150523_184619_zpsmfk2vdeu.jpg and in this one the light patch between the anal ...

thanks for the page i have read this before. from reading this i figured i might have a pair on body shape alone. ill have a better look at them when i move them to their new tank in a couple of weeks.

So I have two Batrochoglanis raninus and from the info on line there is no way to sex these, now the two I have are slightly different lengths but there heads are similar size so I was wondering if this is possibly an indicator of sex. I know its completely different but in some reptiles this can be...

i think the shorty tank will be better for the cats cause of the ground space, its just proving a pain for dither fish.

so been doing some work on the new tank, and a new change in direction. please excuse the mess we keep the cats in the bedroom cause there is little movement through the day and we get to enjoy them in the evening as we both like to chill in there as we are up early for work. so I got the back paint...

I'm thinking now that I may make some sort of basket area so we can have some semi aquatic plants, I this ill silicon some perpex in to form a divide so the plants have water and the roots come in the tank but the fish cant jump out. maybe a planted corner around it so the divider cant be seen. the ...

to day I got offered a good deal on a really nice tank. its a bit of a wired one as it used to be a coral display tank, so dimensions are 39" long 27" wide and 12" tall, so not very tall at all. my plan is to use it as a south american bio type for the Batrochoglanis raninus . it will...

Thanks for the information. the find was quite random and from an unlikely place. I was looking round a Maidenhead aquatics, which the manager is big on the SA cichlids so has some of the more sort after types and a bit of knowledge, the fact that they missed labelled and then gave me further discou...

Earlier this year I was floating around another forum as I'm a cichlid keeper at heart and came across some stuff about gulper catfish well my wife was hooked. this worked well for me because a wife with an interest in fish means more for me hahahaha. Anyway at that time I couldn't give a gulper cat...

hello all, well I have been brought to this site after doing research on some bumblebee catfish I got, they were advertised as SA bumblebee's but after research and reading I think they are Batrochoglanis raninus, which I'm happy with as they are rare in the UK. anyway ill be floating around. Shane