Shovelnose wrote:He s on an official visit Victor. So I dont see him visiting your private river drainage.

Thanks, Larry. Your experience is invaluable, as usual.

just a short 12 h trip to the west and I'd happy to show your friend Belorussian-American way of fish-keeping.

I've been told before that I must pressure wash the loose parts off of driftwood. Do you find this excessive? Would just a reasonably thorough manual cleaning be enough to avoid a messy tank with floating debris, pieces of bark, rotten parts fallen apart, etc.? Also, Birger, are you not worried abou...

Must be looking in the wrong places :shock: Here is the episode you missed . . . .LINK. . . . Full episode at bottom of page. Thanks, Peter but this is non-viewable for me for some reason - perhaps, Mats is right! Thank you too, PlecoCrazy. Believe it or not, I've never bought anything from amazon,...

yeah, seashells can be sharp; they also can slowly dissolve and form very thin and sharp edges. i cannot quite make out if the substrate is all seashells or if there are some (coarse?) nuggets/gravel too. the water must be pretty alkaline, right? on the upside, the substrate probably houses a ton of...

I like the tank. It's unique. Sure functional but has something else about it too. I've never seen a tank with so many hiding places before - it's an equivalent of a high-rise apartment building

I am not seeing many cichlids. Is it scarcely populated? It looks big.

yep, the things we are willing to do, did, do, and will do to get their attention...

save you a step: here are the photos of the 41.5" one Exasperatus found. What a catch!

Sure fire, Alex- "should" does not equal "will". I think all Mats and I were trying to say, to use your analogy, that when a human being is born, statistics says it can be expected to live to 60-90 years these days. That is because LeeRoy was also speaking in general. Sure, Groke...

Cat-eLog indicates channels would hardly grow beyond 27.6". Yet, at some other ernest forums, e.g., aqualand http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Catfish,%20Channel.htm - see e.g., 7th pic down (could be a blue channel, which grow up to 65"??), people speak of 3-4 foot pet channel cats.

What would be excellent would be a picture of one against a tape measure or similar? Hear, hear! Mine (http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=29628) are now about 25-28" TL. I'd love to have a pic in Cat-eLog with a 3-footer with a ruler next to it. 1.2 m!! Wow, that's 4 f...

Interesting find, Taksan! Wish I'd never seen it :lol: but now that I did - It does appear like they are serious... about shaking up and spicing up the tank-cleaning world. The concept is not novel though and bears resemblance to a car wash performed by girls in... well, some kind of interest-arousi...

LeeRoy, if your lifespan guesstimates are for catfish, then Mats, is very right. Not that I experienced it firsthand, but from all that I've read and has been discussed on this site, cats can live for a very long time, 5-50 years, and most would in ideal husbandry conditions. Many bear witness to th...

Hey, Grokefish! Don't know what you need: encouragement or consolation? I'll try the former. You know, it's not unlike wedding vows, where you promise to love and to cherish but we all know for dead sure there'll be bad times too, there'll be hurt, bitterness, fights, tears, etc. - this is merely a ...

Warm greetings, BigBird and Daniela! I am not an L-person but you will find the L-people on this site are wonderful both as plecoholics and as homo sapiences ( ) and I am sure you have things to share/teach as well.

Hey, Crkinney, there is a pm (private message) waiting for you.

Thanx, RickE! Yeah, I've seen these little pieces, almost advertisements - and thoroughly enjoyed watching them again just now But I was asking for something more significant than 1-3 min snippets/ads - those I could not find so far on the net.

Greetings Henrik! What a lovely website! Them discus are breathtaking! Well done. You must be a walking encyclopedia of discus and pleco knowledge. Good to have you on board.

It's a bear of a task, guys and gals, and I am very glad someone is doing something about it. Having the Cat-eLog and especially the pics right, or as right as it reasonably can be, is one of the biggest assets of this website and IMO is the most powerful thing amongst those that draw in new blood, ...

never caught it but heard about it from a dozen different fishaholic people, all amazed by the fish shown... wish I'd seen it but I have no TV service. anybody knows if the whole thing or significant snippets are available on the net?

I am maybe perpetuating old news/concept or at least incomplete news but AFAIK nothing natural follows hormone injection: the milt and roe are literally squeezed out of the parent fishes, which usually kills them... Hybridization does occur in nature but it is quite rare, I am told, very, very rare.

HH is SILURUS! (I did not know, for one, until recently.)

Hey Frank! Welcome. If the people from Holland and the Netherlands are put together and the Dutch are thrown in, it almost appears that the majority of European registered users may be from that area... :D Well, may be not, but it sure appears to be The Catfish Country... if there is such a thing as...

Lovely tank. An eye candy for sure.

What was that that you fed them? Looks kinda like pieces of Captain Kirk's fried breaded chicken fingers, but I am sure they weren't...

Marc van Arc wrote:It looks to me that there's also a Megalodoras uranoscopus in there?

yep I'd agree; but not on the list; why?

I'm no syno expert, like Richard B and others, but some of mine look a lot like yours and they have been thought to be a hybrid (definitely), perhaps of S. decorus and S. multipunctata. Often they are called Jaguar synos in the trade, not that the name means much at all - any spotty fish can be call...

katgermain wrote:Give Hoplo's a chance!

good slogan

Yes but it is a wonderful step in the right direction. It shows that even bigbox stores care and can be made change their ways. The next step would be to post a short description of how hybrids are produced next to the label but no one would buy the fish then... so the next step is to educate the pu...

Wow. Very different looks for the same fish... Are these color "variants"? If yes, the variations are pretty wild. Maybe, it is not fully classified yet into different species?

Greetings from the shores of Lake Ontario. Wow! You sound like a fabulous addition to this wonderful cyber-community. Welcome!