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hello all, i wanted to say hello as i am new to this site. my name is adam and i live in saint petersburg, fl . i am new to keeping fish and i had some questions about three of the catfish that i keep. i was told that these fish were african butter catfish...

i was hoping that someone on this site might keep this fish as well. does anyone know what size this type of catfish will become? i feed mine flakes, shrimp pellets, and crushed up up algae wafers. should i be feeding them another type of food? i have found some limited information about this fish, but not that much. :?

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here is the tank they currently live in..will they outgrow this tank (55 gallon)??


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thanks for any help. :D
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Your catfish look like , which will reach about a foot.
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Welcome to planet catfish pressureflip. I am fairly new here myself and not familiar with that particular fish.
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Welcome to Planet Catfish, Pressureflip.

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Hi! Welcome! Your tank looks cool! :thumbsup:
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thanks for the welcome everyone! :D

off subject here, but i was thinking of getting a farlowella catfish next...

does anyone keep a farlowella on the board? i would love some info on this fish. how big do they get and how good of a cleaner are they?

thanks for any info.
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There are certainly keepers of on the board. According to this list the largest ones grow to about 250mm (10"), but several species are smaller than that. They are unfortunately not the easiest to identify, but is the most commonly seen one (18 registered keepers).

The following is a list of the "runners up" in number of keepers
(9)
(5)
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(1)
(1)

There are other species that are not even listed in the Cat-eLog.

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just got him today :thumbsup:

sorry for the crappy pic. he is a good 6-7 inches

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The pic is not half as bad as we get sometimes :lol:. He(?) looks very nice and sounds a good size already!
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but it's not a Farlowella

check out Sturisoma festivum (too lazy to link atm) :wink:
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Not great pics to confirm ID but if Sid says then...
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Post by sidguppy »

it's not that hard.

yes, it could be another Sturisoma, and i might miss the mark.
BUT festivum is by far THE most common Sturisoma in the hobby and it really looks like this fish,
festivums are usually sold as "Sturisoma aureum", but AFAIK the real aureum comes from Venezuela and imports from Venezuela are rare or nonexistent.

chances are remote it's another Sturi. :wink:
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a better pic....
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Great pic :thumbsup: You should send that to Jools.

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It would help if you send images for one species per email
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It's REALLY helpful if you name the image files along the lines of nanobagrus_nebulosus.jpg, panaque_maccus(male).jpg and so on. Or you can just list all the filenames in the email and explain what they are.
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Although I would sincerely say that it's NOT S. festivum, as that region on Venezuela/Colombia are not regular exports. There are several other Sturisoma spp. that are regularly exported, and it is one of those that the above picture shows. The most likely (from a statistical perspective) is:


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Mats, it's all turned backwards or did I miss ANOTHER NAMEChange in the last year or so?

we've been calling these things aureum for ages, then ON THIS VERY SITE it was changed in festivum and now it's all backwards again???

I give up :(
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Yann wrote:Don't Give Up, Don't Ever Give Up!
Sid, you should take a leaf out of Yann's book. :D
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