Hello & welcome to PC.
You've got some nice specimens. I've one point I'd like to make: pls provide your Chacas with some shelter. Some wood or leaf litter. They do need shelter to feel comfortable and live longer and happier.
Thanks for the warm welcome! They are in a holding tank for now I'm treating them b4 they go in there new home 4x2x2.I have 7 of them and i'm waiting for 7 more to come in
chacalover wrote:Thanks for the warm welcome! They are in a holding tank for now I'm treating them b4 they go in there new home 4x2x2.I have 7 of them and i'm waiting for 7 more to come in
That explains a lot. Hope to see some pictures of their new home as well in due course.
One tiny Q: how (and what) are you going to feed 14 Chacas?
I'd say guppys if the QT tank is anything to go by
But seriously, yes - I'd be interested as well to know how you go about feeding fish like this.
Oh, and welcome to PC.
Martin
I've used beech & oak without any problems at all. - the only thing to be aware of is, are these names the same species of tree in different countries of the world??? (Quercus robur (sometimes considered Q. pedunculata) is the english oak)
The European Beech or Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
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chacalover wrote:Thanks RB for the reply! Where can I find them?
Err- not a clue i'm afraid - i could post you a sackload (is it legal?) I'm sure there are many suitable trees close by. Avoid evergreen trees & look for deciduous varieties, maybe like maple, sycamore, oak in your neck of the woods & possibly try some in a separate tank/bucket with a few guppys etc if in any doubt (maybe best practice anyway) before risking precious cats.
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Those are the wierdest/coolest looking fish I have ever seen. Are they very active after dark? (like hyperactive) Or are they docile when they are swimming around? I want to see a chaca swimming.
Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
hi...
i'm sorry but this is my 1st post here....
i've been watching this forum for quite a while....
i've got 2 chaca bankanensis at home for 6 months, the problem is i cant tell the difference between males and females...
i know that males are longer and females are bulkier but i cant find the pic frm google...
i hope maybe anyone can show me the pic of male and female chaca...
i'm sorry if i said something wrong, but thx fr the answer...
A friend of mine has bred Chaca chaca. He has kept C. chaca, both forms of C. bankanensis, and also very briefly C. burmensis.
He has had adult C. chaca, and C. bankanensis and using the information from the one spawning he had, and from observations IMo female C. chaca have a browner colouration than the more sandy coloured male. Similar colour differences can sometimes be found in C. bankanensis Archipelagic form.