I am totally not surprised by the price. Seems practically non-existant in the trade. Very interesting animal. Looking forward to your updates!

Such a cool fish. Jools can you say how you procured this 'most excellent of catfish'?

While I've not been able to find scientific evidence to support it, I would bet Bagrichthys employs some type of weak electrical field to navigate. My B. macracanthus seem to prefer to keep their body fairly ...

I just found this fish for $12.00!? Sometimes it pays to know your fish.... well, to an extent anyway. I would love to hear any experts on weather this is L071 or not? I just got the fish and I understand it's stressed out. Plan on getting some better pics once it's through quarantine.

Not sure how long you've been in the hobby, but most store clerks are there to sell for as much as they can get. It will always fall to you to do your research and know your fish. For the most part, they are just there to sell it to you. It's a rare shop that really wants to learn right along with ...

Yeah,..no.

Victor, did I not just see the pleco rasping the smaller Dorid in the 240g you just took the Tiger/Red-tail out of?

Pattern and head shape look somewhat aberrant. could also be hybrid.

Dude, I'm feeling since the advertisments and popup banners, I've noticed that I'm logged out more often and it takes 2-3mins, and sometimes never, to log back in. I understand staying financially solvent, but I just have to say it's challenging.

Hopefully we will get more support from users ...

Welcome Floreal!

Well on the surface, it looks like a pure eupterus, but i'd never put money on that.
Second i cant see where the process is missing but the gill cover (opercula) does look deformed. Deformed opercula (and missing humeral processes) can be a result of inbreeding, hybridization, genetics, etc. But if ...

Thank you Silurus, for this.

Wondering why I cant see all, and/or his latest post?

most probably another S.eupterus cross. Pure S. eupterus hold this pattern when they are young, but as they get older (4-5 inches) they start to break into their more typical spotted body and banded fins. This one has a very short curved dorsal as well.

My present group of 3 male sibling S. shoutedeni are around 15yrs old (they were about 3-5yrs old when I bought them around 2014.
Absolutely Jools, Cheers to the wise old Syno's!

Possibly, the other L333 may have matured a bit and decided to become dominant. Which would then mean you'll need to create more hidey holes in that tank, or another tank, for the subdominant (injured) fish.

Only other possibility is some type of fin rot. That would speak to water quality (Low ...

Thats a pretty good bite or injury. Do you have other plecos in the tank? And they can get their tails caught in 'stuff' and freak out in order to get free of the impedance.

Personally, although its a pretty deep break, i would just observe an see if it will grow back. A healthy pleco can ...

with Bagrichthys... Out of my current 8 set ups their tank is the only one without a single snail of any kind.

That is interesting Shane. Do you think B. macracanthus is eating them?
I have a tank that has, since its setup more than a year ago, had only one large ramshorn snail in it. No babies ...

Right?
Eric, it Lee's Feed and Pet. I'm sure you're familiar.

So one of my local fishshops is replacing all their tanks. All fish half off!? I couldn't resist.

Leporacanthicus triactis 2 males $20.00 each US
Ancistrus sp. Honeycomb 1 $20.00 US
Bagrichthys macracanthus 1 $12.00 US!

All very young fish. I almost got a Synodontis flavitaeniatus but I'm going to ...

Thank you to everyone for the info.

Thanks for the response Jools, I ended up getting some (illegal) Clout from a shop owner and overdosing the fish. It worked but it worked too well.

Yeah, a clearer pic would help. But looks like more than 10 from here.

Thanks characinkid, I'm really trying to avoid doing that. Just don't have a lot of spare time. But I may just end up doing that anyway.

Not sure this is the right forum for this, but I'm wondering what people are treating ectoparasites with now-a-days? I have a fish with a few ectoparasite hanging onto the caudal peduncle and the tail is slowly disappearing. I suspect it's some type of Argulus sp. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm on the hunt for a small tall tank, with a footprint of 12"x6" and a height of about 10 or more inches. Would probably turn out to be about 2 US gallons.

Hi Grazy. If you can identify your fish to species, then others may be better able to help you. In your other post, as well as this one you are mixing 'common' names and scientific names. "petricolas" is the scientific species name for your fish from Tanganyica (if that is what you have ...

Petricola are from the Rift lakes (Tanganyika), which is hard water (high mineral content). Featherfins" I'm assuming you are referring to Synodontis eupterus) is a riverine species soft water (low mineral content). Basically, I would say don't do it. But people do all kinds of stuff. One of these ...

Oh, okay, I missed that!

I was hoping the catfish would get away Viktor... but oh well.

Yes, I agree with Alison, the fish has 'given' you 34yrs of whatever you've benefitted from keeping this magnificent fish. It's not a big price to ask to allow it to live out its last few, days, weeks, months on its own terms. All of our fishes suffer at some point, under our best intentions. I vote ...