Thanks a lot for your true concern.

I’m working on a new Green wall and suspended plants to « pump » NO3 out, as I had during the first years

And of course a more efficient WC routine, with a better water move on the surface

4th day without another death... I guess we're out of stormy weather yet. but what a hard way to (re)learn the lesson ! the worst loss is of course my big mama Moon (Osteoglossum of +8 years old) but I'm quite angry with the loss of 2 (on 4) of my Panaque schaeferi... quite a mess in this tank for t...

it seems I released NH3 while cleaning the deep bottom of my inner filter. Then Oxygen fell at its lower level, causing massive bacteria's death and a vicious circle of lack of Oxygen + NH3, NO2 and such problems. Even my 40% Water change wasn't enough... this morning, after finding the 2 dead Panaq...

nope... tap water is not in cause. I have a very good contact with the boss of water service in my area, he's fish hobbyist too and a total fan of my installation. We wrote the guidelines for cleaning of tanks together a few years ago. It's all with UV from 5 years, now. I called him yesterday morni...

Bad news... from Thursday, I have a pollution problem which had deadly consequences : https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/53083439_10219506533720706_7961377196361121792_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.xx&oh=04059acc44c1d1277001cbf2ebffce0f&oe=5CDA129F 1 two years old s...

nothing to do with catfish on this video... but still...

https://youtu.be/6GG95_NYTf4


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completed from Facebook... but still interessant... same feeling : my first success with L46 were back in 2003-2007, and I gave up my breeding groupe (not my best idea). I only came back to zebra last summer, with 3 F2 "out of my own wild fish", that a former customer gave me back. And I f...

in the inner pond, I never noticed any agression/territoriality problem amont the 3 sub-adults (8 years old). But those tiny beasts strike each other in (proportionally) a much bigger tank. And it's not a problem of hiding and rest places : there are plenty of them... the 3rd one is absolutely calm ...

Hi there, Last Saturday, I found in a very good shop of Switzerland (one of the last) a whole stock of Acanthicus adonis fry... I couldn't help but take 3 of them, a tiny bit more than 1 inch, to let them grow in my living room tank. For the next few years, they'll do fine in it (180x40x40 cm, in Xi...

finally got the leaking problem solved... after around 9 weeks...

back to "normal" water level > 10,000 liters

Edit of my 1st entry. There was an error, I had put a adonis picture under the hystrix chapter. And put exactly the same picture in the adonis chapter. solved. for Panaque schaeferi , the only information I have is from youngsters, as they did match quite perfectly the pictures I had as references. ...

go in the "About" menu, and then "contribute" and you'll find your answer

just sent a few pictures (not the ones in this topic) of mature Acanthicus sp (both adonis and hystrix) at the moderator for the Cat-eLog.

just sent a few pictures (not the ones in this topic) of mature Panaque schaeferi at the moderator for the Cat-eLog.

I took a while this January 1. to take a "dive" into the 10,000 liters inner pond to chase the XXL L-Numbers I have... Here you can see a few pictures of this "family activity". Mum on the camera, Daddy on the fishing and Danaël my son on the Stingray Alert. Acanthicus hystrix , ...

I took a while this January 1. to take a "dive" into the 10,000 liters inner pond to chase the XXL L-Numbers I have... Here you can see a few pictures of this "family activity". Mum on the camera, Daddy on the fishing and Danaël my son on the Stingray Alert. https://scontent-mxp1...

long time ago since last time...



Panaque schaeferi got huge !!! still growing

Hi you there, because my other fish and especially L-numbers get very big (Acanthicus, Panaque schaeferi) in the inner pond, I'm looking for someone who could be interested in placing an offer for my 7 Panaque sp L191. They are 7 years old, mature, and between 25 cm and 40 cm TL, depending on the su...

thanks Jools...

undate in population in 2017 :

shame on me... I've just realized I didn't feed the topic here properly, even with (quite) stunning vids on Panaques shot during these last months...

my fault...

a short vid which was sleeping on my smartphone...



out of Catfish scope, but...

quite a long time...

a quick shot of Panaque schaeferi

Jobro wrote:The screwdriver drives me nuts Nice Tank/Pond!

sometimes, you just need a weight to drop down this F.... cucumber

rob rensen wrote:The panaque seems to be a big guy....45 cm ???

Nice footage

Yep ! Almost 5 years old and >45 cm TL

and for a Panaque like this one, you'll need high level of O2 until the deep bottom of your pond… not that easy...

an update of the Big One…

with a fascinating close up sequence of Panaque schaeferi "scrunching" a cucumber.
and a few others…

enjoy !

to illustrate the sexing (courtesy of Stephen Huang) :



male is on the left... but you see that female also has big opercular odontodes... even if shorter and thiner than male

I realize I didn't give an answer on sexing them. As you may know, Stephen Huang showed me a few pictures and tricks. Even if admitted that both male and female develop interopercular odontodes, I'm pretty sure that fish 3 is a male. Stephen showed me a picture of his L27 pair next to eachother. Mal...

hi you all... Today, I replaced the Panaque into the big tank (together with the P. schaeferi, Acanthicus, Osteoglossum, Cichlas, and so on)... mainly for 3 reasons : 1. After 6 months of non-stop efforts in water changes, feeding, parameters, roots, and so on, nothing happened, except the growing r...