not even a sturgeon has those puppy dog eyes especially not on the top of the head. no, these guys have the "shark fetish", which is quite common on the mockumentary channels. if it's not "sharky" it's not mediapathic I'd say they took a model of a baby Dogfish, upscaled it and a...

when surfing to www.planetcatfish.com I saw this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_onmouseover() in /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/common/functions/latest_species.php on line 28 i had to use google, type "planetcatfish forum" to go here..... maybe I'm a bit of a captain Obvious ...

yes, but with P ornatus you had to add at least 4-5 fish; because of the larger Pimelodus species, this one is by far the most social

Aguarunichthys is fiercely territorial and does fine on its' own

it's a fake it's in the text, but you have to find it; it says "divers are working with a model of a catfish it's obviously made by some idiots that have no clue what a true catfish looks like what they did is take a shark-like thing, add Perciform lips like a grouper has and add whiskers they ...

I think a predator that will fit in there perfectly would be Aguarunichthys.

with an adult length of 35 cm or so and a slender built it will not eat any of your fish, but it still has all the great looks and attitude of the tankbuster Pimelodids.

if you like the overall shape of that fish, I'd say trade it and get yourself a nice Leiarius you have all the pro's: the sleek predatory look, the size (3 feet give or take), the predatory nature; but not the agression Leiarius leaves other fish in peace if the other fish are as big as half its' ow...

I've been able to resist the temptation and I didn't get the 1 foot Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, neither the 10 inches Phractocephallus which I saw this afternoon... Even if they were splendid and thriving... keep resisting that urge! there are 2 reasons why that would have been really bad for your ...

Akysis can handle higher temperatures, they'll eat and grow the drawback is that it at least halves their life expectancy.....which i found out myself, shame on me because of this, Akysis and otocinclus don't make the best tankmates. there is a 'cold water Otocinclus" in the hobby, it has the s...

Now there's an idea I like, as all my quarantine tanks seem to turn into regular tanks believe me, build in quarantaine tanks sooner or later turn into regular ones here too :d i have the same set up (but much smaller!) upstairs, where my Tocantins tank has a smaller quarantaine tank underneath tha...

#3 if you can't con't contrubute to the thread take you nasty coments else where. people are entitled opinions here if you can't handle freedom of speech, then what are you doing on the internet? I'm not exactly fond of breeding animals in a way that they end up misshapen 'long fin', parrot fish, s...

the wide tank under the big un is a quarantaine tank; the long tank that looks like many tanks glued together is a bio filter

odd

then the only explanation I can give is that it took too long or they were cooled down at a point during the trip

(don't worry I have a pond ready for him when he gets bigger cause the pond is filled with many adult Arowana)

if you want to keep the Asian Red Tail, you probably have to ditch the Arowana's.....this catfish has a reputation of attacking and destroying tankmates, even bigger than itself

and how big IS it really....

well, I am 6 foot and a bit when dressed and wearing my cowboy boots (184cm)


check the door behind me, that's a standard doorway; 200cm height


and I'm tiny next to the tank!

this poor thing makes me very sad....

it can't swim properly because of the misshaped fins, it's a hybrid and it has pop eyes......

simple; I was referring to -for example- Ochmacanthus; a scale- and slime-eating parasite that looks like Homaloptera. this catfish does turn up in the trade now and then because of its' nice coloration Ochmacanthus orinoco this is another sad example that turned up in the trade quite recently...it ...

A very nice fish, but no match for the T. strigata!

depends on taste; IMO Trachelyichthys exilis is far more beautiful than any Tatia.....

it's not a fragile fish.....


BUT it can and does die when the water turns bad and the oxygensupply runs out.

how did they package the fish?

I hope they didn't cram 6 halfgrown Ituglanis in a single bag......

i got a load of pictures Maaike made about moving that thing, but they're all quite large and i have to downscale em 1 by 1 to be able to post em here

that's way too much now, I'm dead tired.

maybe another time

California, somewhere near or in LA

I'm not much of a photographer my camera's busted and I can't handle them things; they give me the gyp luckily I got friends with smartphones (another gadget that I will never own), so I can post some pix. today we had to hoist this dinosaur on its' stand! man, my back hurts now like I got hit by th...

the tank is finishes and ready; today I glued the heavy plywood boards on top of the frame

tomorrow a bunch of isolation will be added to both wall and on top of the stand and saturday is gruesome:

we have to put this dinosaur on top of it.

cross my thumbs
fingers
ears

Chelsea Wolfe

she was so mesmerizing half april at the Roadburn festival; been hooked ever since

that voice!

whoa

tonight she plays at a venue in Amsterdam and we'll be magicked

again

just a question for the mods (and Jools)

why isn't this topic in "tank talk"?

it's surely no offtopic easy speako, but this is fish tank keeping to the serious limit

just my 2 euro's
;)

we used to have a large female Trachelyopterus galeatus in the big Orinoco tank in my former home it was one of the females from Marc and we assumed she would be fine however; she didn't agree; she wedged herself between a piece of wood and the left pane of glass and refused to move or eat.....for a...

yup, works like a charm now
;)

the builders are in and the whole place smells like silicone glue

the front pane alone weighs 100 kilo's....i had it in my hand together with the 2 tank builders, awful heavy......

the next few days my home will look like a glass and glue factory.

well, been busy and not much of a photographer; but the stand is now level, beton-plex (extra strong plywood with epoxy covering) made for under and up the stand here you can see the biofilter; I'm in the back tinkering with the foamplate under the quarantaine tank this thing is so big, it makes me ...

they are completely harmless with tetra's, Ancistrus etc with Trichomycterids it's fairly simple; the ones that look like loaches are not just harmless but very nice fish to keep; the parasitic ones are very nasty the best way to separate them is; if a Trichomycterid has visible whiskers: it's a har...

the first one looks like to me, not tigrinum....