Hi, Im collecting a unwanted girrafe catfish at the weekend it is 12" long. It is is currently housed in a too small tank hence why i said id have it. It is going in my 8x3x3 with two adult severum and 6 4" uaru. Just looking for tips on keeping the species, I have a lot of big cat experie...

oscars are messy for the folloowing reasons:

chew up and spit out food poluting the tank
generate vast amounts of waste ammonia etc
dig in the substrate and stir up debris.
and yes a cheap filter will get blocked.
high quality external power filters the way to go.

Breeding salvinis are vicious and most catfish are going to get shreded.
so i second the previous post

Oscars are not as agressive as many people think. yes the will push tank mates around but can easily end up on the loosing side of a fight. if you got a small oscar, it probably would be ok but as the shark cats grow rapidly and they would be a bit ahead of the oscar. But oscars are messy fish and n...

I have one point here : Why do people have to mount their high horses over fish size, tank size etc. If you cant give advice with being an a-hole then dont bother because quite honestly your only making a fool out of your self!. I already have 3 people talking to me through private messaging for ans...

i cant put him in the 100 gallon at the moment as the fish in there probably will eat him so i have to wait until hes a bit bigger, but i might step up the water changes to 10% once a week and see if get any result. im doing 30% every 2-3 at the moment as the tank is quite lightly stocked. thanks fo...

my eurpterus is a stoppy little bugger, and it shows no fear of an oscar much larger than it and sometimes bites the oscar if he comes near his cave. your plants should be ok as long as they are not too delicate but as already stated they may get bashed around when looking for food. what size fish a...

Hi, i have a royal panaque that was 1.5" when i bought him about 6 months ago, he seems to feed ok and has plenty plants that he eats as well as bog wood, and it eats the algea tablets i put in, but he doesnt seem to grow very quickly as he has only grown and inch in six months. it is in a twen...

Hi, thanks for all the advice. i went and purchased a little royal panaque today and it seems to be settling in quite well. i have put some bog wood in and a few plants that it can eat, in the shop they appeared to be enjoying bloodworms so i might put some in as a protein boost for its diet.

cheers
they will start off in 3ft tank with some other fish, and i will move them into a 6ft tank when there big enough to cope with the other occupants

how much bog wood will the eat??
or is it really a dietary supplement ..

I have seen some small 1-2" royal panaque today and i would appreciate any useful information from people that keepi them or have had experience of them.. i plan to buy one and grow it on to say 6"or so in a general community tank and when it gets bigger move it to my large fish community ...

If they are channel catfish i would encourage you to put them back where you got them from as long as they have not come into contact with any other exotic species..

channl catfish are not easy to manage in captivity as they grow huge and eat absolutley everything.

i have been looking at picture and the closest is the hemisoribum species any advice would be great

its definitely a shovelnose cos of the body shape i think it is a hemisoribum, soribum or a pseudoplatystoma species

hi im interested in the marble shovelnose catfish, does anyone have any experince of them and the best way to keep them.
the tank that fish will go in is 8ftx2ftx3ft it is 3 ft wide due to the fact that it used to house a mystus wykii.
any advice would be great

i have kept these fish and they do indeed get large they can attain large sizes in captivity mine grew to around 16+" and they lived in a large holding vat rather than a tank. they will crash around in a tank and injure themselves they are real pigs when they eat as well and a good filtration s...

I had a channel cat a few years ago. it grew to 36" and it was quite destructive when it was in an aquarium so i moved it to my pond which is over 1500 gals where it attacked and severely injured my ghost koi which were 2ft or so long. they are best kept on there own of with other channel cats ...

thanks for the advice i think i might go for the labidocromis as they are colourful and i have never kept african cichlids before so it would make a nice change from central and south americans.

the tank is 4ftx2ftx2ft.
it has one syno eurupterus at 8 inches and one sailfing gibbiceps at 14 or so inches long and a golden gourami.
Ph is 7.2 and water is quite hard.
i just wondered what you kept with your cats any advice ideas would be great.
cheers
nolan

my tank is 4ft by 2ft by 2ft the gibbiceps is 10" long and the syno is 8" long they have been together for 2 years the gibbiceps has algea wafers and pellets etc i watched the catfish attack each other. the problem is my other tank contains a 2.5 ft eel and a 18" gibiceps and a syno n...

hi
my sailfin has attacked my featherfin syno and left i with a large wound in its head. they have now been separated. has anyone else had this problem should i get rid of one of the catfish or shall i put them back in the same tank.
any help would be great.
cheers

its hard not to put my hand in the tanks as the tank is 8x3x3 so to clean the substrate isnt easy. he is certainly a nice fish evenm though hes very agressive. the reason why i am worried is i have been bitten by a catfish before when i was feeding it and this has left me with permanant scaring on m...

i am currently looking after one for a friend that has moved and is setting up a new tank for the catfish. my question is the fish spends a lot of time swimming around and is extremely agressive it has tried to bite me on sveral occassions. It is 20" long, will it be able to do me any damage as...

firstly to clear things up i wanst telling anyone how to keep there fish. i am a catfish keeper and i have found that mixing large catfish with large cichlids can be problematic because a lot of the large cichlids are substrate spawners and the catfish are territorial. i have several large tank and ...

I have kept may of the cichlidae you listed, they will extermenate each other evetually because the are extremely agressive. they may be peace full for a while but it will not remain this way for long. as far as suitable catfish go you really need the large solid catfish. if they are even slightly d...

they get big!! to 12" and need company of there own kind or they will pine away. they will need a large tank when adult at least 4x2x2. they need good water conditions similar to discus if they are to thrive. and they breed in a similar way to discus the fry get nutrition from adults mucus memb...

I also believe that these fish maybe the same species although my lfs has two catfish at around 20" they call perruno they have similar markings to the picture at the bottom of your original post.
i have never seen jevinile perruno only l. mamoratus and i think that your fish is mamoratus.

i definatley wouldnt put anything in with your wykii. in my experience they will shred anything kept with them and i have a collegue who has one and it has already bitten him badly and it killed the giant gourmai it had in the tank which was considerably larger than the cat at the time.

They are very quiet fish and grow large. mine grew at around 1-2 inches a month in the first year and was around 18". It feeds on lance fish and big pellets and other frozen live foods. they are not suitable for the general community but could be kept with large peaceful fish mine lived with a ...

I am try to get hold of a jevenile hemisoribum platyrhynos. if anyone can give ome idea of how they are best kept and a guide price for them i would be greatful.