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by OregonOutdoorsChris
01 Jun 2025, 00:55
Forum: Asian Catfishes
Topic: Hyalobagrus flavus - male & female interactions
Replies: 3
Views: 1029

Hyalobagrus flavus - male & female interactions

I hesitate to call it spawning, as I saw no eggs, but that's kind of what it looks like to me.

I was on a ladder scraping algae from the glass of another tank when the flavus cats caught my attention. Of course I left my phone in the house charging, so after observing for several minutes, I made a ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
22 Apr 2025, 17:37
Forum: Suggestions, Feature Requests and Enhancements
Topic: Why fish/fishtank relation if i can not define fish multiple times
Replies: 5
Views: 26322

Re: Why fish/fishtank relation if i can not define fish multiple times

You can sort of accomplish this in the existing scheme.

Create population1.
Mark population1 as no longer kept.
Create population 2.
Go back and remove the "Stop Date" from population1.

Now you have two populations of the same species which can be kept in different tanks.
by OregonOutdoorsChris
21 Apr 2025, 15:40
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: Suggestions for softening water
Replies: 8
Views: 9504

Re: Suggestions for softening water

A first flush diverter can help deal with the dirt from the roof.
by OregonOutdoorsChris
18 Apr 2025, 02:43
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 54
Views: 68299

Re: Starting a fishroom

Things have been progressing in fits and spurts in my fishroom.

The one I'm most excited about is my 40 breeder below a south facing window, for which I took some inspiration from bekateen's kinon tank. My goal was to get as much caustics (shimmer) and hard shadows from plants all cast on the sandy ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
18 Apr 2025, 02:26
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Anyone know what this is?
Replies: 7
Views: 31114

Re: Anyone know what this is?

I can now suggest Cupramine as a method for killing it. Though it's not 100% guaranteed.

Shortly after this thread was made I resolved to try to tackle the problem in my tanks. I removed all the fish and as many cherry shrimp as possible from the tanks to be treated, and I dosed the Cupramine as ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
11 Apr 2025, 03:06
Forum: Bugs
Topic: My Aquarium Photo Not Updating
Replies: 4
Views: 10560

Re: My Aquarium Photo Not Updating

Looks like my aquarium #2 has updated. What ever you are doing, seems to be working :-)
by OregonOutdoorsChris
30 Mar 2025, 06:23
Forum: Bugs
Topic: My Aquarium Photo Not Updating
Replies: 4
Views: 10560

Re: My Aquarium Photo Not Updating

Aquarium #11 has changed to the updated photo. Aquarium #2 is still the old one
by OregonOutdoorsChris
30 Mar 2025, 02:16
Forum: Bugs
Topic: My Aquarium Photo Not Updating
Replies: 4
Views: 10560

My Aquarium Photo Not Updating

I've been trying to update the photos of a few of my aquariums but it's not successfully updating on the My Aquariums page (my aquariums #2 and #11). I go through the motions and it doesn't give any obvious errors, so I don't know if it's user error or not.

It does show the correct new photos on ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
02 Feb 2025, 18:21
Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
Topic: SL-aqua Z1 bio protector with corys ?
Replies: 3
Views: 38392

Re: SL-aqua Z1 bio protector with corys ?

From the descriptions on the product it sounds like it may be the same thing (betel nut) as No Planaria. Which has successfully eliminated hydra for me.

The tanks I've used it (No Planaria) in had paleatus corys, otos, L010a whiptails, and various loaches and seemed to have had no ill effect on ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
21 Jan 2025, 15:18
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Anyone know what this is?
Replies: 7
Views: 31114

Re: Anyone know what this is?

I don't have any plecos, so I could only guess. If there were a commonly available pleco species that is easy to care for and eats this sponge, I would certainly be interested in hearing about it :-).

But from my experience so far, I can tell you otos, cherry shrimp, and amano shrimp don't eat it.
by OregonOutdoorsChris
21 Jan 2025, 14:38
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Anyone know what this is?
Replies: 7
Views: 31114

Re: Anyone know what this is?

I will second freshwater sponge. Probably from the genus Ephydatia.

I have some as well, and the only problem I have is it's in a planted tank and it kills plants it covers, it spreads by spores if you move anything from an infected tank to another, and I have yet to discover a way to kill it other ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
28 Nov 2024, 17:19
Forum: Taxonomy & Science News
Topic: Hoplisoma osvaldi, new species, Urkumayu, new genus
Replies: 4
Views: 3241

Re: Hoplisoma osvaldi, new species, Urkumayu, new genus

And I'm sure you're all on it already, but it looks like the Cat-elog for H. osvaldi might have some copy-paste errors in it. As I'm sure it's not from Lake Tanganyika nor "Could be confused with Synodontis polli" :d
by OregonOutdoorsChris
14 Sep 2024, 04:41
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Shrimp safe w/Raphael's
Replies: 3
Views: 16954

Re: Shrimp safe w/Raphael's

My assumptions would be that they would eat the shrimp, but my experience suggests that maybe cherry shrimp aren't terribly tasty.

The shrimp happily munching away outside of the caves holding 3 of 4 raphaels in this tank
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Another shot just showing more of the shrimp ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
19 Jun 2024, 15:22
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon
Replies: 63
Views: 91010

Re: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon


adjusted the color to a faint blue. My main light bar doesn't do an evening sunset fade, so it's either on or off. My Tatia and Microglanis are very nocturnal so I don't see them in the daytime. I'm hoping the light bar will allow me to see the fish at night without disrupting their behaviors ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
18 Jun 2024, 06:34
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon
Replies: 63
Views: 91010

Re: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon


@OregonOutdoorsChris will you be at FIN-DIG 2024 in Sacramento this weekend (June 22-23) or Fishtoberfest in Portland on Sept 28-29? I'll be at both, and speaking at Fishtoberfest. If you make one or the other please introduce yourself to me. I enjoy meeting other PlanetCatfish people.

There's ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
17 Jun 2024, 16:51
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon
Replies: 63
Views: 91010

Re: New 33 gallon long (4 foot) tank with waterfall and kinon

I'm excited to see how this turns out!

I tried doing something similar last year.
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I got about 9months of decent plant growth but it ultimately ended in failure. Don't try using coco coir wrapped around egg crate light diffuser as a jump start of your raft. The coir ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
17 Jan 2024, 22:41
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
Replies: 8
Views: 23051

Re: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!

Yeah, they're normally chubby and also prone to over eating. I've always got the worry in the back of my mind that this might mask the early stages of bloating, but I've been fortunate to not have to deal with that yet.

As far as other good tank makes, the list really is endless. If it doesn't fit ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
16 Jan 2024, 06:17
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
Replies: 8
Views: 23051

Re: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!

I would think two should be fine together in a 55gal. Mine never cause any harm to each other, at most the occasional tail slap or head butt seems to be all that's needed for the bigger fish to tell the little fish to move.

I think corys are a fantastic tank mate! Since corys don't use hides, there ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
15 Jan 2024, 07:21
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Attempting the impossible with S. Angelicus
Replies: 12
Views: 24557

Re: Attempting the impossible with S. Angelicus

I'd be curious to hear more about your experiment with Ovaprim in the water column. What was the dosing you used?
by OregonOutdoorsChris
15 Jan 2024, 07:19
Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
Replies: 8
Views: 23051

Re: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!

1. They prefer softer water, but they appear to be rather robust, with one of the raphaels I rescued was living ~15years in what was tantamount to brackish water (tank was heavily encrusted with salt scale), and it acclimated to my more neutral water with no hint of an issue. So your parameters are ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
13 Apr 2023, 18:49
Forum: All Resolved Issues
Topic: Login Error
Replies: 3
Views: 1454

Re: Login Error

This happened on both Chrome on PC and Chrome on Android.

Interestingly, now if I log out, I am able to log back in through that path without the error. ~X( :))
by OregonOutdoorsChris
13 Apr 2023, 18:45
Forum: All Resolved Issues
Topic: Login Error
Replies: 3
Views: 1454

Login Error

I'm getting an error when trying to login from the front page.
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I found there's a login form at the bottom of the forum page and fortunately that works so I can report the issue :d
by OregonOutdoorsChris
23 Mar 2023, 05:27
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 54
Views: 68299

Re: Starting a fishroom

Jools wrote: 22 Mar 2023, 14:50 I really like it because I like seeing plants grow.

Jools
Indeed! And being a woodcat tank, I always knew the weekly photo was going to be about the plants. I just never anticipated the observable growth to be almost entirely the Riccia and java moss.
by OregonOutdoorsChris
22 Mar 2023, 04:56
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 54
Views: 68299

Re: Starting a fishroom

And here's the update I had planned to make, I have reached 1 year of having my perugiae tank restarted. I've been taking a weekly photo to document the changes over time. There's nothing special or dramatic and the catfish stay hidden, but it's a project I've been diligently sticking to so I'm ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
20 Mar 2023, 04:22
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: Starting a fishroom
Replies: 54
Views: 68299

Re: Starting a fishroom

It's been a while since I've shared any updates, life has been busy and progress in the fish room has been slow. That said I got a surprise sighting of my Microglanis tonight which I figured I'd share. I had withheld pellets from the tank for a few days, and apparently the flakes weren't to its ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
09 Mar 2023, 15:04
Forum: African Catfishes
Topic: Spawning Synodontis without hormones
Replies: 21
Views: 27958

Re: Spawning Synodontis without hormones

Some of it is in the internet archives...

https://web.archive.org/web/20100923044851/http://www.synodontis.net/synodontis/cf_nigrita/zuchtbericht.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20071025022900/http://www.synodontis.net/CONTENT.PHP?AW=209&SD=1

https://web.archive.org/web/20071023044324/http://www ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
15 Jan 2023, 05:50
Forum: Asian Catfishes
Topic: Erethistes jerdoni
Replies: 9
Views: 25361

Re: Erethistes jerdoni

Nice! I am also surprised they survived the geos. Maybe the geos learned to avoid them due to the spines <shrugs>
by OregonOutdoorsChris
26 Nov 2022, 07:12
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Replies: 1706
Views: 1734325

Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

Any thoughts on the use of nutritional yeast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_yeast) as a B vitamin supplement for those of us with smaller fish?
by OregonOutdoorsChris
31 Oct 2022, 15:37
Forum: Tank Talk
Topic: catfish for pond
Replies: 11
Views: 3184

Re: catfish for pond



How about the common bullhead does not get very large

Jeanne


I come across Cottus gobio while searching the internet, is this the one you are talking about?


They're likely referring to Ameiurus , and not the sculpin.

You previously mentioned Corydoras paleatus , another option might be ...
by OregonOutdoorsChris
17 Oct 2022, 14:58
Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
Topic: Question about l010a
Replies: 6
Views: 1235

Re: Question about l010a

Mine have maxed out at the about 4 inch mark.

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