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- 17 Jan 2024, 22:41
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2312
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 i...
- 16 Jan 2024, 06:17
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2312
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'...
- 15 Jan 2024, 07:21
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Attempting the impossible with S. Angelicus
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2115
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?
- 15 Jan 2024, 07:19
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Spotted/Striped Raphael Questions!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2312
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 ...
- 13 Apr 2023, 18:49
- Forum: All Resolved Issues
- Topic: Login Error
- Replies: 3
- Views: 593
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.
Interestingly, now if I log out, I am able to log back in through that path without the error.
- 13 Apr 2023, 18:45
- Forum: All Resolved Issues
- Topic: Login Error
- Replies: 3
- Views: 593
Login Error
I'm getting an error when trying to login from the front page.
I found there's a login form at the bottom of the forum page and fortunately that works so I can report the issue - 23 Mar 2023, 05:27
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
- 22 Mar 2023, 04:56
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
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 happ...
- 20 Mar 2023, 04:22
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
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 liki...
- 09 Mar 2023, 15:04
- Forum: African Catfishes
- Topic: Spawning Synodontis without hormones
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11438
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...
- 15 Jan 2023, 05:50
- Forum: Asian Catfishes
- Topic: Erethistes jerdoni
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5484
Re: Erethistes jerdoni
Nice! I am also surprised they survived the geos. Maybe the geos learned to avoid them due to the spines <shrugs>
- 26 Nov 2022, 07:12
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
- Replies: 1404
- Views: 543459
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?
- 31 Oct 2022, 15:37
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: catfish for pond
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1854
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 Scleromystax
- 17 Oct 2022, 14:58
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Question about l010a
- Replies: 6
- Views: 799
Re: Question about l010a
Mine have maxed out at the about 4 inch mark.
- 16 Oct 2022, 06:42
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
Morning of Day 16: PXL_20221013_163958194.jpg the late evening of day 16 the eggs were still in place, but by the next morning they were all gone. Presumably hatched. But a search of the tank turned up nothing, and being they share this tank with six pictus cats and far too many corys, I wasn't real...
- 07 Oct 2022, 17:44
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
Day 10 you can clearly see little whiptails in the eggs.
- 05 Oct 2022, 06:16
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
I moved my camera over to the Platydoras tank last night and caught some interesting footage. It seems that they are much more active when I'm not around than I ever imagined
And I found this one humorous because she had had enough of his shenanigans...
- 28 Sep 2022, 16:39
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
And on the fishy front, I separated out my best looking male and female L010A with the hopes of getting them laying eggs again. Last night I saw the female was in the log pestering the male, so I checked on them again this morning and look what I found! PXL_20220928_145509996~2.jpg This is the first...
- 28 Sep 2022, 16:28
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
Also, if you're in Sacramento on the first weekend of the month, please, if you can, swing by RoundTable Pizza on Greenback Ave in Folsom and join us at a Sacramento Aquarium Society meeting. If you do, please introduce yourself to me. I'm the program coordinator there. Thank you for the suggestion...
- 27 Sep 2022, 01:13
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Walstad Type tank
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2762
Re: Walstad Type tank
Hi everyone, I would like to thank everybody who contributed to this interesting thread! I have read Diana Walstad's book and wanted to try out the type of tank setup she described. Since my primary focus is on fish keeping and breeding I never even considered the idea of no or minimal water change...
- 26 Sep 2022, 21:27
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
Sadly, I've never had C141. For corys I've only ever had habrosus and paleatus, though I make sure to always keep some space open in the event I stumble upon some knaacki, C150, C141, or other beautiful spotty species. Sorry, I must have been confusing you with someone who used to live down by me i...
- 26 Sep 2022, 17:39
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Walstad Type tank
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2762
Re: Walstad Type tank
Diana Walstad's book, "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist". Unfortunately she doesn't address the suitability of corys, but the book is pure gold with regards to the rest of the information it provides and is a truly invaluabl...
- 26 Sep 2022, 05:26
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
I know the odds are low, but do you have the C141 still? It's been several years. Cheers, Eric Sadly, I've never had C141. For corys I've only ever had habrosus and paleatus, though I make sure to always keep some space open in the event I stumble upon some knaacki, C150, C141, or other beautiful s...
- 26 Sep 2022, 04:53
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
Just some corys enjoying the Sunday morning sunshine
- 26 Sep 2022, 04:46
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Walstad Type tank
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2762
Re: Walstad Type tank
If you haven't already, I would highly recommend checking out Diana Walstad's book, "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist" Unfortunately she doesn't address the suitability of corys, but the book is pure gold with regards to the ...
- 21 Sep 2022, 22:36
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
Harmless to fish eggs, Ingo Seidel actually recommends them as egg and fry janitors in the " Back to Nature guide to L numbers ". I have them in all my tanks and have successfully spawning Corydoras(ln4) pygmaeus etc Malaysian Trumpet Snails are live-bearers (including by parthogenesis) s...
- 21 Sep 2022, 22:32
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
The biggest issue with the snails (any snail sp really) is that they can quickly become the main biomass in an aquarium if left to reproduce uncontrollably. The best long term solution I have found is to use snail traps to keep the population as low as possible. Don't go the Assassin snail directio...
- 21 Sep 2022, 22:29
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
Are you kidding?!? A year out of water and still snails? Holy cow! Dead serious. The wood was removed from a tank with trumpet snails almost exactly a year ago when I moved, and has been sitting on the dry garage floor since then. A couple months back, figuring it had to be safe by now, I added it ...
- 21 Sep 2022, 05:45
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Starting a fishroom
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26138
Re: Starting a fishroom
For the pictus cats, their tank is coming along nicely. I managed to get a hold of some scrap 4" PVC drain pipe that I've been cutting lengths off of which has given the cats some much needed cover. PXL_20220921_031334857(1).jpg I still need to get some more wood, unfortunately the local parks ...
- 01 Sep 2022, 02:58
- Forum: Cat-eLog data issues
- Topic: Etymology of Mastiglanis? or at least of "glanis"?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8696
Re: Etymology of Mastiglanis? or at least of "glanis"?
Interesting, with some cursory googling I've found the claim that the Greek glanis seems to derive from glanos and relates to Hyenas... https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=glanis
Which other horizontal reading seemed to confirm (or at least repeat) and potentially attributed to Aristotle.
Which other horizontal reading seemed to confirm (or at least repeat) and potentially attributed to Aristotle.