They are pretty young. The photos shorten the body a bit and now you mention it, they seem a bit shorter than my last ones. I got those as adults, tho, so don't know their developmental stages.

Still can't get the video to work, but this is a screen shot from a different angle.

Sorry, thought I did. She said 8 mo to a year, mere toddlers. The tank is a temporary 20 US gal. holding tank, so without tail maybe 3 inches? One is substantually larger than the other. Wish I could post the vid, they look very much like eupterus in motion. I'll wait for one more opinion, but if we...

Thanks. The more I look, the more I think young eupterus, but maybe not quite? I don't know where the gal who gave them to me got them but she thought they would be small fish and just needed to give them away, right away.

I picked these up today as "need gone. Now!" rescues. They were ID'd as Lace Catfish, S. nigrita, 8 months to a year old. Their dorsal fins seem better developed and lacier than the dorsals in the pics of S. nigrita I see. Not a species I know personally. They do swim upside down at the to...

What I would be interested in is - would it be better to change 10 % a day, or 50 % a week. Unfortunately, this is not tried to be ansewered. You won't get the same result in chemical concentration because the amount of chemicals/ contaminants will be higher in a 50 percent change than respectively...

You do understand catfish are addictive? The more you look, the more you end up with. Lurking can take over your life, lol. Welcome and enjoy.

It is not available from Amazon at that link--pre-order only. Looks like a US Amazon site Book looks like a winner

I had occasion to check Planet Catfish and decided to update my My Cats list to include species I used to keep. Long story short, I am down to one tank--S. decorus and a small plec--and haven't been around for years. Good to see so many old associates still here and information continuing to evolve....

We are rural and some areas have contaminated water, other areas have to drill 1000 ft or more to reach the water table, so water hauling and storing are common. Our systems aren't old (we're a frontier area, wild west well into the 20th century) but poorly planned and constructed. Fortunately one t...

Thanks folks. Mats, it looks like the cistern you linked to is a UK product, but I suspect here in water Hell storage tanks are pretty easy to come by. Do you just run the RO into the storage tank? It sounds a bit easier than storing buckets around. Water pressure here is incredibly good year round,...

Yes, I have the antisocial behaviour of "interveening" when I hear something wrong. Sometimes people appreciate this, at other times not. ... -- Mats I solved the intervention problem by becoming a newspaper reporter and posing my concerns, not necessarily about fish here in the high dese...

What finally worked for us was using the QuickCure 2/3rds full strength, but using it twice a day. Before that cure, the ICK seemed to regroup near the end of every 24 hour application, then another fish or 2 would have it. I have had resistant strains on Loriis and found twice a day with Rid Ich P...

I am in a situation where I should really go to RO water but I have no idea what I would be getting into with my own unit. We use RO from the store for cooking, drinking, washing hair and so forth so I am looking to set up a system to accommodate those needs as well as water changes for five aquaria...

Thanks to all who provided help! I went ahead and ordered a media canister, as it sounds like that is the only way to go. Thanks again! It is good to have. The HOT is a great filter, but I found it best as a booster or quick clean filter. I never used carbon in mine, but put chopped up sponge filte...

MatsP wrote:
It is (as I've heard) a consequences of high nitrates.

Have you heard if the condition is reversible? When I get the quality issue straightened out, will the tissue straighten out? Aside from this, the fish are fine and entertaining.

troi

The two rescues from two years ago are still around and fully regenerated quickly. They are not growing as fast as my previous decora, but they aren't changed as often and don't have as big a tank. The gill covers on both are turned back a bit. I have heard water quality can cause this. Does anyone ...

(I didn't take a photo in the bag, and now I only see them by peeking behind the plants when it's dark in the tank - hopefully they DO come out at some point in the future... But the size of the eyes indicate that they like the dark, I think). -- Mats They do like the dark, but they will come out, ...

For those who are fans of Susan Aufieri's "pet" Hoover, the Blue-eyed: Hoover succumbed to a cold snap in the U.S. Northeast when an ice storm wiped out electricity in the area for days, leaving the house temperature at 42 degrees and tank heaters useless. Many other fish in the Aufieri co...

some others like decorus or eupterus just "floor the groweth pedal" as long as they're kept roomy and properly and reach their large size in just a few years. why that is I have no idea whatsoever. I wonder if it also a matter of spurt and slow donw. I see, oh, maybe 8-9 inch, tip to tail...

I am not saying your fish is not a little crazy but there is usually a reason for wanting to move on,and if the situation is not addressed you may lose it which I am sure you would find disappointing.Birger If the catfish pellets he is feeding are the floating kind the fish may just be begging or l...

CEfire wrote:Troi,
I would LOVE to see that video if you could post it...
:lol:

Sure. Someday, really. It is huge, I need to trim it or take one good section out. And learn how to get it into my computer...

but, yeah, I will.

troi

... know is that there are two forms of iron in the aquarium...There is "free" iron which is toxic, and can be released from certain rocks...There is "chelated" iron, This is not toxic, and is the type we feed our plants with. I believe racoll means our aquatic plants. I killed ...

Did you do 85f and rid-ich at the same time? I have rid ich and using it on my salt water tank,.. I'm so sick of waterchanges its not funny.. but i'll trow some in today to minimize the chances of the ich getting worse as i slowly raise the temperature. have two air stones going and gonna use a hal...

I would hear what sounded almost like a warble of some kind. I thought it was the Synos, but I never confirmed it. It was the synos. My big decorus would "bawl me out" if I changed more than 25 percent of the water at one time, probably too much change in one of the parameters. She also h...

consider going to natural light or natural light cycles if you have to use artificial. I swear I saw breeding behavior in my decorus, when on fish kept another in a cave wiht him (or her). The kept fish had a back exit but stayed in the cave anyway. My eupteruses would go in to spawning behavior, ch...

I have put a s.Angelicus in my tank... Is she just a bit mad? She is certainly fun to watch !! LOL. There is the possiblity that all synos are a little nutz. My original S. decorus would spend lots of time standing on her head, or nose, rather. I've seen juvie S. eupterus and decours hang by the ou...

Even worse my tap water PH is 6.3! so it comes out low and takes a dive strait away, i now use a KH buffer and its been at PH7 for the past week nice and stable! Be careful wiht buffers, some have a tendency to work just fine then wear out with no notice. You don't say what kind of buffer you are u...

... my PH dropped from 7 to 4.2 in 5 days. i have got it back to PH7 over 5 days, i am gunna take my water to my LFS to be tested and then go from there, but the little fello seems happy now. Did you get your water sorted out? I would suggest a GH and a KH test kit. That is a big drop; if you are n...

For those who have asked about regeneration of severe fin and tail damage I posted before and (new) after pix of some c*****d-damaged fish in the african forum, topic Regeneration in S. decorus, where the nursing procedure is discussed.

troi