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On Saturday I got three on an expedition to Maidenhead Aquatics (Stratford) kindly hosted by Richard B., who selected the fish for me.

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Looks like a nice one.

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Hey,

looks really great! One of my dreamed fish :). I am sooo jealous! :)
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Hmmm - that fish looks strangely familiar :wink:
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Very nice fish again, congrats.

While ago you got S. clarias and now this one, is there S. velifer next in your list? Worton is not only jealous guy now!
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They are great fish. I have 3 now the largest about 7 inches. As you konw they get much larger. They are very active and eat all foods. They are truely and inverted species. In nature I beleive the are filter feeders. Daphina(water fleas) being on of their major food sources.

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jippo wrote:is there S. velifer next in your list? Worton is not only jealous guy now!
What is sold as 'velifer' here isn't usually the real thing, as I understand it, but rather Synodontis eupterus
before it morphs into the adult form.
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Richard B wrote:Hmmm - that fish looks strangely familiar :wink:
It told me to say hello on its behalf.
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Chrysichthys wrote:
jippo wrote:is there S. velifer next in your list? Worton is not only jealous guy now!
What is sold as 'velifer' here isn't usually the real thing, as I understand it, but rather Synodontis eupterus
before it morphs into the adult form.
I have never seen real velifer, only hybrids and they look very much same that you have there. So if I can continue your list I would say velifer next, very hard to get genuine one and very attractive. Like clarias and memranaceus. And you already have filamentosus.
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These are such great catfishes, so congratulations on your purchase. I've only ever kept one and it was a star. Gulped down food like a labrador dog. Full of character and hardy, I lost mine to a full tank wipe out but had it for 3-4 years, I'd grown it up from 1" when, curiously, they are spotted.

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They are favourites of mine already.
jippo wrote:So if I can continue your list I would say velifer next, very hard to get genuine one and very attractive.
I suppose the ultimate Holy Grail is Synodontis xiphias, but I would say that next on my list is .
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Chrysichthys wrote: I suppose the ultimate Holy Grail is Synodontis xiphias,
Leaving tang's aside I'd certainly second that, but would also include , , , perhaps S.Pardalis (as pictured in Seegars), S. Thamalakanensis, & S.Voltae - surely that's not too much to ask for? :wink:
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Richard B wrote:
Chrysichthys wrote: I suppose the ultimate Holy Grail is Synodontis xiphias,
Leaving tang's aside I'd certainly second that, but would also include , , , perhaps S.Pardalis (as pictured in Seegars), S. Thamalakanensis, & S.Voltae - surely that's not too much to ask for? :wink:
Sorry, still OT. I would add S. pulcher to my list, that's one of most attractive syno that I know, and of cource almost imbossible to get. Also S. katangae is top of my list. What do you think about fish in page 6 in following article, I think S. katangae not S. ornatipinnis. http://www.saiab.ru.ac.za/resou/75.pdf
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Also S. katangae is top of my list. What do you think about fish in page 6 in following article, I think S. katangae not S. ornatipinnis. http://www.saiab.ru.ac.za/resou/75.pdf[/quote]

Definately not ornatipinnis, but hte adipose shape & humeral process shape look totally different to katangae. The closest i think is Pardalis but there are still some variances from this photo to the one in Seegars.
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But distibution doesn't match with pardalis, katangae is only known same looking syno in chambeshi river. I know it looks very much same that pardalis in seegers book but it lives totally different area.
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jippo wrote:But distibution doesn't match with pardalis, katangae is only known same looking syno in chambeshi river. I know it looks very much same that pardalis in seegers book but it lives totally different area.
Indeed - perhaps it has a wider distribution than anyone realises??? Perhaps it is an undescribed specie???
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Jihaa, I got Hemi today :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: . It is an old fish whose former keeper was going to kill cause he quit with aquariums :shock: . But fortunately one guy rescue it and i got it from him. It's a star already!

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Someone was planning to kill THIS???? :shock:

wow.
everytime this planet surprises me again and again about how ignorant and void of anything resembling empathy certain human mortals can be :(
luckily it works both ways :mrgreen:

congrats on rescuing this absolute marvelous tankbeauty! :thumbsup:
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Someone was planning to kill THIS???? :shock:

wow.
everytime this planet surprises me again and again about how ignorant and void of anything resembling empathy certain human mortals can be :(
luckily it works both ways :mrgreen:

congrats on rescuing this absolute marvelous tankbeauty! :thumbsup:
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Kill it???? :( :eek: :eek: that's a spectacular fish!! yeah for saving him and what a terrific shot this is!

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jippo wrote:Worton is not only jealous guy now!
Congratulations, now you don't have to be! :thumbsup:
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Thanks guys! It really is a stunning catfish. I can't compare it to any other squaker, its behaviour is so much different. Swimming around all the time and interested of everything. Only bad thing is that I have one big S.pleurops that doesn't like hemi at all. Before this pleurops hasn't been aggressive at all but now it is like totally different fish. I really hope that this is only temporarily and it will calm down soon.
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jippo wrote:Thanks guys! It really is a stunning catfish. I can't compare it to any other squaker, its behaviour is so much different. Swimming around all the time and interested of everything. Only bad thing is that I have one big S.pleurops that doesn't like hemi at all. Before this pleurops hasn't been aggressive at all but now it is like totally different fish. I really hope that this is only temporarily and it will calm down soon.
That's very interesting..i've never encountered Pleurops being aggressive towards anything :?:

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Hey,

congratulations jippo! Really great you manage to rescue this guy! :)
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Richard B wrote: That's very interesting..i've never encountered Pleurops being aggressive towards anything :?:
Neither did I before this. And it still continues. Yesterday I re-arrange everything in that tank, I really hope this will help now. I don't want to put pleurops to another tank with angelica, I think that will be even bigger problem than this one now. Hemi is acting normally and eating like a pig so everything seems to be ok expect scratches on body. And I already have a bigger tank, about 1600l, but it still takes month or two to build it up.
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And I already have a bigger tank, about 1600l, but it still takes month or two to build it up.
Excellent...what else will go in this tank?
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Main thing is that its going to be African tank. In bottom area i will put some of my biggest Chrysichthys, Synodontis angelica, S. decora, S. greshoffi and S. acanthomias. Euchilichthys guentheri is one of my main target too. Of course its coming more there but we'll see what i can get there. In middle and top layer one choice is Raiamas senegalensis or R. christyi but those are pretty jumpy so i'm still thinking about it. And of course its very hard to get those fishes. One other choice is Distichodus lusosso but they are more bottom fishes and i think that one day bottom area in that tank is full of Synos :D . Ichthyborus ornatus would be awesome but there is again a little problem to get it. Hemichromis fasciatus i certainly will try and maybe some Tilapia too.

Its pretty hard to get all those specie but maybe that's the reason i'm so interested of Africa. In my point of view i have noticed that easy to get is pretty often very boring. So Africa is perfect for me :wink: .
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jippo wrote:Main thing is that its going to be African tank. In bottom area i will put some of my biggest Chrysichthys, Synodontis angelica, S. decora, S. greshoffi and S. acanthomias. Euchilichthys guentheri is one of my main target too. Of course its coming more there but we'll see what i can get there. In middle and top layer one choice is Raiamas senegalensis or R. christyi but those are pretty jumpy so i'm still thinking about it. And of course its very hard to get those fishes. One other choice is Distichodus lusosso but they are more bottom fishes and i think that one day bottom area in that tank is full of Synos :D . Ichthyborus ornatus would be awesome but there is again a little problem to get it. Hemichromis fasciatus i certainly will try and maybe some Tilapia too.

Its pretty hard to get all those specie but maybe that's the reason i'm so interested of Africa. In my point of view i have noticed that easy to get is pretty often very boring. So Africa is perfect for me :wink: .
Euchilichthys guentheri & Hemichromis fasciatus & Distichodus lusosso are certainly seen over here every so often :D - maybe they'll find their way to you?
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Richard B wrote:Euchilichthys guentheri & Hemichromis fasciatus & Distichodus lusosso are certainly seen over here every so often :D - maybe they'll find their way to you?
Euchilichthys guentheri and Hemichromis fasciatus would be very nice to get, it's impossible to get those from finland. Distichodus lusosso i can get from here but i haven't decide yet do i want them or not. Maybe i just have to start planning trip to UK :thumbsup: .
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I have a tank with a Distichodus sexfasciatus and a D. fasciolatus along with many other bottom dwellers (various Loricariids and corys, an odd mix I know) the Distichodus don't interfere with the bottom dwellers at all, though they are slightly scrappy and territorial when it comes to other mid water fish. So I wouldn't worry about a Lussoso picking on synos or other bottom dwellers, though this is just my personal experience!

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