Please help me with my Jaguar Catfish

[Koltsix]

I just bought one of these beautiful fish and would appreciate any info on them anyone could offer. Like what are the preferred foods for this fish and how could I go about making him less shy. Right now he's in a tank with 2, 4 inch Teacup Stingrays(male&female), 1, 5 inch Marbled Motoro Stingray(male) and one 5inch Redtail,Tiger hybrid. He's in a 75 gallon tank with non-buffering sand from a petstore(not a hardware store), one treasure chest and one large rock cave in order to maximize the amount of swimming room for the stingrays. My nitrite,nitrate and ammonia levels are at 0 ppm, and my ph is at 6.8. All the fish seem to coexist peaceably even after lights out there hasn't been an incident. So please any information would be greatly appreciated. Hope you enjoy my pics and any critsism on how to make the tank better would also be appreciated. The only plans I have is to change one of my lights to red and one to a blue in my reflector to hopefully subdue the lighting while still illuminating the tank to my liking.

[Richard B]

Unfortunately i can't see the pictures

Is it a oncinus or morrowi?

In my experience they prefer a large particle size food, mine particularly likes prawn, shrimp sticks, & tablets.

By their nature they are secretive & like to hide away - venturing out when they are hungry or on other occasions but they must feel secure - this can be accomplished by providing numerous hiding places. I have seen them active but this was in larger tanks with no areas of cover, just gravel but this is unnatural for them I would not advise this.

I know nothing about stingrays but the RTCxTiger shovelnose will get huge & a 75g is too small as he'll grow real quick & when he does the jaguar would be a possible meal - i have known large pims eat a lot less tasty morsels.

[Koltsix]

Thanx for the info. I know the tsn/rtc cross will get huge I'm really just holdin onto it. It's a gift for a friend in Georgia whose got a pond. The tank's too small for the stingrays too it's just to grow them out for now. I plan on getting a 250 gallon tank real soon. I also plan on gettin some Black Lancer Catfish real soon. By the way out of curiosity why can't you see the pics.my pics can be viewed with the url's let me know if you can see them please.

[MatsP]

No, the pics don't show up, it just says "Image" for each of them - I suspect it's because the Kodak Gallery doesn't allow hotlinking - if I take the link itself and paste it into my URL bar, then I can see the image. [I did "Edit" on your post, so I can see the original link in there - others who aren't moderators can't do that].

Imageshack is another place you can upload pictures to and it certainly works to post them here.

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Mats

[Richard B]

At home now rather than work & can see images - that is a really good looking jaguar - one of the best i've seen

The black lancer is another of my favourite non-syno cats - they can be quarrelsome amongst themselves but are generally ok mixed with peaceful bottom dwellers - photos would be good when you get them!