I have sent you a pm Mary. We are into tank busters too, look on my gallery. Yep, we all know they get big. I don`t think people mean any harm in warning that they will get big it`s just that we don`t all have brill shops like Wharf to advise us and sometimes people are ill advised, or not advised ...

Yep, I know 9 months is a long time but that`s no exaggeration. It really was that long.

Jason, I think I have seen you Perruno!!!!! Is it in Wharf still? We went there yesterday and I was telling Richard about you posting on the forum about getting him.
There was one, one the right hand side of ...

In my gallery there are a few pictures I have posted. We think one of our fish is a Granulosis, but would appreciate any help with identifying it.
We bought it from a rubbish shop where we don`t go anymore who got a load of cats in that they didn`t know what they were.
We identified it as Pteradoras ...

If you look in my gallery you will see the picture of our longibarbis which we origionally thought was a perruno.

All i would say with this type of fish is that they are very skittish. Ours goes suddenly spooked for no reason and he smashes into the glass, it`s a good job it`s strong because he ...

Just put some pictures of some of our fish on my personal gallery if anyone`s interested.
Maybe you can help with the id of the granulosys type one?

Clare

Nigers only reach around 3ft, and they are not active all day. We have 2 of them and they are adorable, they lay on the bottom during the day, and at night sift through the sand looking for food keeping the sand all turned to avoid food getting caught under it and rotting.

With Arowanas and Silver ...

It would have to be an Oxydoras Niger, at 3ft they are the most gebtle creatures ever to find and sift through the bottom cleaning up nicely. Very lovely markings along their sides. That would be my choice anyway.
Clare

I posted on here months ago, about of Perruno/Longibarbis catfish not eating.
He is fully grown and went on hunger strike and hadn`t eaten for 9 months.

He is now in his new tank, 9ft x 3ft 6", x 2ft and has a shelf made of slate to lay under. For the first week he was much the same, then last ...

Thanks, I don`t ignore anyone that wants to help me!! You are right in everything you say, and he is mature. He is eating pieces, like you say, being an opportunist feeder.

Living in the tropical climate areas would flood naturally so he would gorge, then the waters would dry up and he`d be caught ...

Sorry I haven`t posted any more on this topic but not much has changed apart from now he sneaks the odd prawn here and there.

His new tank 9ft x 3ft6" comes on Monday and so he should be in it within 3 weeks ( we have to knock the lounge wall out and replace it with patio doors to get the tank in ...

Well we tried Ferdinand with some earthworms and some sprats which used to be his favourites but he just got really mad, killed any worms which went near him but didn`t eat them and didn`t touch the sprats.
We don`t know what else to do now, just hope still that he may be on hunger strike. I wonder ...

We have only treat with the Octozin for now, as we don`t know exactly what the problem is we think it is best not to try too much medication. We now think he is a Longibarbis, not a Perruno, makes no difference as they are very similar but it was very kindly pointed out that he is the Longibarbis ...

I checked it out and it looks like you are right, our Perruno is a Longibarbis.
Does that mean there are any differences in terms of anything else? I know slightly in looks but is the care any different or anything.
Still think he is a lovely looking fish, very attractive even with his lip!! We are ...

Just wanted to say thanks to Matt for taking the time to post the pictures for me. The top one is obviously Ferdinand, our Perruno, and the bottom one has Lillian, the Oxydoras Niger, with fellow companions, Ernie and Flo, the Giraffe cats. We laso have another oxydoras who is not in thw picture ...

I do have a few pictures of him but I am really useless on the computer and would have no idea how to post them. I could try e.mailing them to an address if that would be any good? Or even send one through the post or something?
Would be happy to try to help with pictures if i could.
Clare

As far as we know he is a Perruno Cat, every report we read points to the fact that he is. We have seen Leiarus Marmuratis and he is definatley not one of those. Wharf are excellent with their fish and they said he was a Perruno.

He now hasn`t eaten for 3 months so if it is a period like you say ...

Oh and forgot to say, we already do 2 water changes a week. Total of 2 x 25% water changes a week.
Also, Ferdinand used to swim to the edge of the tank for his food, same time and place every night but now he won`t.
Clare

The shop we trust is called Wharf Aquatics, in Pinxton, Nottingham. The guys there are Richard Hardwick and Sean Evans who write for PFK. That is where our Perruno came from and most of our other fish.

We have already tried Epsom salts but they had no effect. I know Ox heart is not a good thing for ...

Thanks to Medekas advide we checked our water at the LFS and found our test kit is not too reliable.
Our tap water actually is 15ppm, and our tank water, 30ppm.
It would be better if we lowered this but a reading of that level shouldn`t cause major problems.

Thanks for the advice from Aquaholic too ...

Thankyou for the advice. Karl ( my partner) usually sorts things like this out because he understands it better than I do.
Thankyou for the links, anything is worth a try to save his life.
Thanks again for taking the time to help us.
Clare

Thankyou for your help. It is definately not nematodes, we have that problem in another tank which we are currently adressing.
The tank is 8 x 2 x 2, holds approx. 900litres, 800 allowing for substrate etc.
We do 350 litre water changes a week, split into two halves.

We haven`t really fed much oily ...

Please help!
We have a Perruno Catfish who is 23" long.
He is in a tank which is 8ft, soon to be upgraded and has good tank mates,being a mbu and some florida gars which he has always got on well with.
Suddenly he has stopped eating. He was fine for months then has suddenly refused to eat.
In the ...