don't underestimate Bas; he's been keeping species like and when he started the hobby

I kept my mouth shut for the last few weeks, but in doing so, I actually allowed you to waste a large number of fish not any more there's a ton of topics by you and despite ALL the great advice here you still go at fish keeping like a stamp collection; one of every kind despite that several of the s...

actually i find it one of the great failings of the human design; teeth that don't fall out on a regular base because teeth that do, get replaced with fresh brand spanking new ones ask any shark! and that would omit the bane of my existence; the dentist. no more drillings, fillings, amalgame toxic w...

definitely not fixed this cloadflare is blocking PC, I think I could not get on the site by going the normal URL (www.planetcatfish.com) nor by using the forum URL I used google, typed a catfish species and took the long walk-around via the catelog once I got a catelog page up (in this case Hyalobag...

comes with the job

if you keep a cat or a dog or a baby, you'll be cleaning up poop every day
nobody ever stopped keeping those because of the poop issues....


so if you want to keep a Panaque, compare it to those
it comes with the fish
;)

Pterygoplichthys pardalis aka common Pleco gender is hard to see, when adult you could look at the genital papilla, but you'd need a few specimen to compare. it's also irrelevant, since the only way to breed these is by keeping several in a pond with muddy edges; the male will dig out a horizontal ...

how about some species of Cotoneaster?

blooms a lot, has berries, grows easily to 7', can be pruned in any shape you like, no spines and most varieties keep their leaves, especially in Scottish winters
which i think are more sogging rain and mud than extreme frost and snow, right?

sure these are L191?

they look like the Tocantins variety of Panaque armbrusteri to me; L027....

I was thinking more about your little kid (s?), romping around the garden and getting entangled in the nastiest shrubs known to man
I wouldn't plant Berberis in a garden with a toddler or a wee kiddie slightly bigger than one

;)

Most would prefer to choose that route. It can cost 10X as much for plain rock salt packaged as "Aquarium Salt". Why pay so much when the chemically identical alternatives are so much cheaper? why first spend hundreds of dollars/euro's/pounds on fish and then when the fish get sick pinch ...

thats exactly what I saw

apart from a few numbers that have changed
;)

I mangled the sentence a bit
but I did add a : (what's that called in English? : )

because after the : I suggested
which likes slow moving water

I should have omitted the word "most", then it all seems logic
;)

technobabble is OK
;)

it's just that I'd rather "cry wolf" over something that's harmless than say nothing when I saw something odd and 5 minutes later PC goes into full Crash & Burn mode
;)

does this ring a bell? Host Not Configured to Serve Web Traffic You've requested a page on a website (http://www.planetcatfish.com) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, the host web server does not appear to be configured to accept web traffic or serve web traffic. If you are the owner ...

agreed I've tried em a few times, ages ago the first time this exact thing happened and back then I didn't have a clue why, either. the second time the food competition simply was too much other attampts were just as bad. haven't kept them in well over a decade and a half. tricky fish. Euchilichthys...

Chiloglanis are much harder to keep than Euchilichthys

Jools already hinted at that:

first of all, make sure you've got Chiloglanis, their care is very different from other African suckermouths

Aquarium Size: 1700.00mm x 600.00mm x 600.00mm Volume: 612 litres, 134.6 UK gallons or 161.7 US gallons Acidity: pH 7.5 to 8 Hardiness: dGH 10 to 12 Temperature: 24 to 27'C Current: strong (4000L/h) Furniture: Substrate: fine riversand. decorations: medium and large rounded rocks, bogwood Filtration...

it's getting better by the day;

from where i sit with the Gro Lux tube on and bright daylight in the room and I spot the P tetramerus and the Hemidoras just romping around, sticking their noses in the sand occasionally....

it's 2 PM!


no need for a headlight or a tiny LED to see the catfishes
;)

rev up the current and the oxygen levels

it might very well be that they don't want to move out of the area where they can breathe.....

to make them go through the entire tank, I think you'd need to boost both current and oxygenlevel.

looks like HH's back in town

HH, can you look into this Silurid fella?

I think this is a Bagrid

Tachysurus spp?

this is a fish that not only likes to graze, it must graze a Bristlenose can be compared to a horse, but one that's immune to colic. in order to stay healthy, it will graze on algae all day and most of the gut is filled with undigestible stuff. however, especially the common bristlenose can handle a...

formalin IS a dewormer, Mike Not really. It has almost no ability to penetrate the body wall of an animal; it is effective only against external parasites (and only external parasites with thin skin, e.g. flukes and ciliates, but not external parasites with a hard shell, like anchor worms or fish l...

formalin IS a dewormer, Mike and quite an effective one at that I wouldn't touch the stuff with a ten foot pole, though, not anymore. I probably lessened my life expectancy with a decade when studying biology back in the 80's; we dissected so many dead things marinated in the stuff that I probably s...

Yes, I'm quite sure I got the numbers right, because i measure it precise when I'm dosing . I think you're mixing percentage with promillage, Mats a liter is 1000 grams, not 100. you're missing a zero! :D seawater, depending on the sea, has a salinity of 2.9-3.8% salt per liter.... that's 29 to 38 g...

if you got tanks at room temperature and you use a good pump or a diffusor, is a possibility too.

to cure white spot/ich (ichthyoptirius) with exit or esha is really old fashioned over here it's impossible as well; since the strains we got in the hobby are completely resistent against it unfortunately many fish, especially catfish, are not. esha and exit contain a lot of copper ions and many cat...

a few attempts at taking pictures


the big shinies are Triportheus.


retroculus lapidifer juveniles


pimelodus tetramerus

Berberis.... you sure know how to put the fun in gardening, Richard \M/ we had one at my former address and i was the gardener there. at one time i had to move it, cause it was growing like bamboo and next to the drive way that's a brush that can and does scratch the paint right off the car! wish I ...

yeah, i meant trace elements, couldnt remember how it's called in english (we say sporen elementen) I always add a wee bit of salt when doing large waterchanges. not much, mind, we're not talking grams per liter or so; but say, about 30-50 grams when doing a 600+ liter waterchange. for the trace ele...