Hi Lise! So refreshing to see new faces from barely represented places. Welcome.

I offered a humble guess at your fish.

Looks very much like a loach to my poorly-trained eye.

the section mention was for the mods, no fault of yours :) vast majority of LFSs suck big time at ID-ying fish like synos - too difficult and time-consuming and effort-unworthy for them. They'd never give one so much money for such a trade-in unless they knew precisely how rare and precious such a f...

I love the photo tank. you mean photo cup? :) good to see the guard dogs are not sleeping, unlike at some other places Why would anybody do it here? I mean I saw it happen over and over and over again at waterwolves, and I got tired of reporting it, but those abusers there were leaving links to com...

This belongs in the What's my cat? forum. I deeply share in your excitement but do hope you didn't overpay. $100 sounds expensive - that means the LFS gave $35-40 to the previous owner (from MFK?), which is a lot for this relatively unremarkable-looking, euptera-resembling syno. Sorry to hear about ...

Thanks, Mats!

a pic would go farther than 1000 words, Joshua, when it comes to ID-ying Yes, it is rare in common shops, even fish-oriented. In 2 years, I've seen them maybe 5 time at various shops while I have made hundreds of LFS visits in various states. You can usually find them on-line too. They are always po...

A-a-ah, blast from the past. Thanks so much, AleGer. It's a sort of serendipity - just recently I was thinking to myself that I know so little about the fish I've been catching all my childhood and youth. Even their sci names I do not know. It'd be cool for my education to know the common names of t...

My experience may not reflect the whole of US nor overseas, but 99% of the fish looking like that almost invariably turned up to be just blochii. Blochii vary in coloration what I would call greatly and also quite age-dependently. Perhaps, or even likely, the taxonomy of these guys is incomplete. I'...

That'd be nice, to say the least...

I, for one, am looking forward and wishing you come through with this.

what'd be cool if someone captured that "'d been in a small tank for too long" syndrome on video... not an easy thing, I realize, you'd probably have to be a little young Spielberg armed with patience and film montaging technique...

Assuming 2.5'x6'x3.5', that'd be 380 US gal if filled to overflowing. That is not a large body of water. With such small volume, it'd be hard for it to remain "natural and fish-life or healthy-fish-life sustaining" or even close to it - it would overheat or overcool, depending on season or...

As Mats says, more details are needed to come up even with remote guesses, especially about water quality and how it was maintained and water parameters, even as trivial as temperature, for example. At the face value of your original post, one would have to guess there was no water quality maintenan...

i see; mine were at 77-79 F, one feeding daily in the company of gluttons - they likely never filled up to the max and sometimes they were too slow to come out to get anything at all; 50% WC weekly; 120 gal

that's excellent growth by my experience: mine 4-5 giraffe's (~3 different types) would have been lucky to get half-to-a-quarter of this growth rate (they are all in catfish heaven now).

I'd have to agree with you: if this is indeed Synodontis sp_hybrid(1), it is one of the cutest little buttons I've seen. It's just getting hard to pin down the nature of the hybrids as the breeders are constantly crossing different genuine species and even hybrid and genuine species.

Thanks so much Geoff. So exciting to see the episode in its entirety. Well shot and narrated thing. And I find it quite informational, analytic, and scientific enough, with no over the top hyped up sensationalism.

I rarely cease to be surprised by Dave's interesting fish and by Birger's ID eye.

Nice fishy, hopefully will reach its full 2' potential in a good home.

NH3, as Mats explained, has no relevance to pH in our hobby/application. NO2 and NO3 have 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 times, respectively, less relevance than NH3 with respect to pH. Hence, nil. When it is said that a fish can live in such and such pH range, it does not by any means imply that the p...

sorry bro, can't help - I've never even seen one anywhere for sale or not

...but give you a bump. Can anybody help, please?

the concrete swimming pools are waterproofed with another layer of high-cement-content concrete coating but I don't know how they'd handle the areas around the glass windows exactly as I imagine there is more than one way also, I've read about this too: http://www.sanitred.com/WaterFountain.htm some...

Lunchspank, we are all trying to help you. Do not misinterpret. Mats is a walking encyclopedia of random fish knowledge and Racoll is a professional ichthyologist. So you are getting a premium help, rest assured. Yes, pH change is worrysome - you'd be well advised to get to the bottom of this 100-fo...

While your analysis, Mats, is rigorous by math standards and totally agreeable, Rebah is relying on "luck". Now, that blue feathery thing is rather hard to disect :) Still, one must state your plan is a bit soft, friend! Dream on but do not crash if it does not happen. Hopefully, you have ...

Larry, why would one need that? From all I've read, people speak of these at the bottom perimeter but never heard about the wall joints. Guess, I should read more. I don't think the OP could that anyway - there is only one wall that has been built - the 3 others are the existing walls of the basemen...

Good idea. But for now, for a far, back burner... It'd be real cool though. I can see it. In my dreams. I've read about a woman living in an old Boeing 737 or something. She bought the decommissioned plane for like $2000 and paid 20,000 to move it to her lot. My kind of gal. Don't know what old big ...

I think you are talking total length TL, and if you are, then plan for about a foot long, though I am doubtful this guy will reach that length. Just to err on the safe side. Your tank if very fine (just from the volume and footprint perspective). My synos, including several guys like yours, have nev...

Sorry for your loss. I notice how you avoid stating what the pH was/is and any other water parameters. To us, it means you don't know them. If one is serious about providing the best conditions for their pet fishes, it is highly advisable to keep track of at least 5 water parameters: temp, pH, NH3, ...

I am sure the next family to live there will love it as much as we who have seen it and yourselves. Thanks. That is my cherished hope too that people will like it and not remove it. But hey, I have no control anymore. Let the chips fall as they may. My gosh. I can't imagine having that type of pati...

I like the look of the pieces of tile on the arch; if you put some grout in-between the tiles it would look like a rock arch; very cool Yeah, I pondered that too. Both with grout and without grout have their advantages. The PermAquarium has the floor and the bottom of the walls grouted wherever til...

can see them here: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... lit=55+gal

the pics pale in comparison with yours - they are just quick, min effort photos