OK, OK, OK!! I'll give the hunt for cast nets a rest. Shane: First weekend og september is a jubileum of the Belgian beer festival. I know you dont drink that much, but these beers are really something else, and its a jubilee!!! Meet me there? Its kind of half way between us... I've already booked, ...

Hmmmmm, I must say this is a slight relief and an incentive to choose US over Germany, but I'm told that beerfestivals are even more lively than fishgatherings...

PC

I have looked around but i cannot find an old internettshop that sold cast nets small enough to catch guppies.

Do any of you know of anyone who sells?

Its not like im in a hurry, but i will need some practice to get it right, so feel free to answer real quick if u'd like


PC

OCTOBER!!!!

You guys have ANY idea how many beer festivals this thing crashes with??

One of my friends has had only good results from putting different man made "goldfish" in with his redtail.
Almost got in breding condition ;)

Im trying to locate a rare catfish last spotted in south Africa, called Shane linderii.

Can anyone tell me if his gmail still works or ask him to send me a mail on pch@chello.no
regarding symposium in Norway.


Thanx,

PC

I just need to make a point. Why would a few degrees hurt a H.zebra? Rivers realy change fast some times, and they change a lot! If its so extreme 2 degrees makes a diff for a zebra in the first place... FIX IT! If you believe that your water is good - go ahead.... Mine bread by accident in my Malaw...

Sewellia and Gastromycon eat mostly algea. They are pretty cool to look at too. You also have quite a few Livebearing species from the Goodeidae wich are muchbetter algeeaters than many catfish, but some of them won't do too well, and may also be interested in eating otherstuff, like tails of other...

stina wrote:Laurab, where did you get that piece of slate??
Dosen't that raise pH??
TIA,
Vedran

whats the trouble if you should get a few degress hardness in the water anyway? Its a zebra tank...
Not that slate has had any impact on my water..


PC

I am 15, I don't have a wife. But you probably didn't know that. Lucky! A heaterguard you can easily make from mosquitonet or something like that. Make a shield so the fish can not get in direct contact with the heater and burn themselves. Needs to let the water through of course :) I think you sho...

PS Happy to hear any other comments on this topic from anyone who wishes to chip in. i usually try to stay out of threads like this, but i got tempted. I am rather new to this forum though i am a moderator in another forum. We did have a similar system to PlanetCatfish that showed how many posts a ...

Well, i'm sure the fish won't mind to much, but what about the wife? the setup seems to lack what we in Norway call the Wife acceptancy factor... A little more effort will give you a tank that the fish still love, and that you still kan keep good control in, but also allows you to look into it witho...

My friend was in Trinidad and Tobago and caught some of these and brought them home to Norway. He made agreement with someone here on Planet Catfish to give him the fish in the end of Septemberwhen Oslo has its symposium. I was to keep the fish alive until then and hand them over. My problem is: I c...

Coryman wrote:It is a lot easier to ID Corys now that that guy from Kidderminster in the UK has produced a book especially for the purpose

Ian

Guess i'll have to go get one then


PC

Could easily be nanus, too, they are also very small and hard to tell apart from a couple of others.

Ouch. thats a very good point you got there... I usually carry some disinfecting scottich mouthwater on trips, but if I were to use that for evry throw I might not get very many fish. Do i have any other options. I saw three guys in Viet Nam with rather large castingnets and I don't think they used ...

Shane wrote: Not to state the obvious, but it takes a long time to learn how to use one.
-Shane

Hehe, so I am told, and that's why i want it now, so i can waste time learning it here at home instead of on my next fishtrip.

Thanks for the help.


PC

I have a hard time finding fishnets here in Norway. I'm looking for a thowing net like the one you see on Shane Linder's avatar here Does anyone know if there are webshops that sell them and ship to Norway? Any other info about these nets, like hwat sizes are a reasonable starting size, and what wou...

I fed my Panaque a lot of squash. Evry time she got too thin, like after a long holiday or so, she would demand cucumber the first day, them back to squash. Main course was still roots and BTN

Hmmm. i think i tried Grindal worms many years ago, but they recieved a Veto from the ministry of interiors....
They smell like "¤%&/, don't they?



PC

PC, white worms have the reputation as being a fatty food, and they are, if fed fatty foods. I feed mine wheat germ and other grains as an article I read some time ago in an aquaculture magazine gave a chart showing the fat content of Enchytraeus when fed various types of common foods. They were hi...

Up to just recently i have been certain that its the best way to get almost any fish into breeding condition using "black mosquito larvae(Don't know what spec :oops: )" that i catch myself. They love them when they wiggle, but the frozen black ones my fish didn't like much. Just a few mont...

I just managed to get hold of a new package of frozen food with "Blackworm" printed on them, but the contents were definately what some would call mosquito larvae So now i am totally confused again... I wish people would start using scientific names on stuff so it would make sence to peopl...

i can add that we did not just hire their biggest suites in the hotel to have good nachspiels in, we hired all the rooms under, over and around the suites so as not to have any complaints.

The social part of it is as important as the speakers - so we went ahead and got us both



PC

Thanx.
Good pages, these. I learned a lot in just one day

PC

First i would like repeat that i don't own the truth in this. I can only say for sure what happened in my own tank. I had about 50 grown Malawi of different kinds in a 750 liter tank. I dont rem if I added 8 or 10 H.zebra(this is a long time ago when they where still cheap :), but at least i rem the...

Rkeiger :
I'm sorry for your bad luck with these fish.
My H.zebra not only kept their eyes in the tank with L. caeruleus, but both species were breeding...

Anyway, There are no absolute truths in fishkeeping.
Fish behave different in different set ups.



PC

Interesting article on Blackworms here . Now i know what they are, but i dont have access to them. I tried to squeeze out a few blackheads but i was worried that they would foul the water. What i do have are some of these socalled whiteworms. They are also pretty fatty and i hope they might do the t...

Thanks for answering, however i am sorry, i do not know what Black and bloodworms are. Do you have a scientific name for them? Or any other name? I have a friend who suggested mosquito larvae, but the fish are supposed to be herbivore, but i guess like so many other fish they don't read too much.. P...

I just bought some of thes fish, but they seem to be uninterested in feeding. I have given them carrots, different algaewafers and even a few carnivorepellets just in case. They got some squash/succini today but still havent touched them... What do you guys feed them? There is little written info on...