Just curious, how big of a fish can big(About adult) sized clarias catfish eat? Their cute smile decieves me into thinking it can be big and small at the same time.....I'm not sure!

But it would be nice to keep on eof them cute long pink ones with other fish

Whenever I go near my 30 gallon growup(The fish in there are just too small to be realesed into the big tank) tank, the raphaels always make noises! The click, grunt, rumble, squeak, "fizz", and scape the bare bottom(Bare for easy cleanup)

Are they supposed to be so noisly?! AT first, when I didn't ...

Are the Lake Tanganikan Synos really simulated to spawn by the folwerpot method? If it's true.......That's good!

Sadly, one died, but the others are fine. TOO fine, to be exact. The bellies are huge! They eat anything! And I thought they are nocturnal, but mine are just fine coming out during the day. And they swim around a lot and do funny tactics.......

Do these guys swim a lot at night? Because almost ...

Today six thin but healthy two inch raphaels came to my house!!

Because raphaels are getting rare here, I'm planning on getting a school of them.

How many should I get to make a school? ABout 6? And are they happy in a school?

I was once bitten by my 11cm late(Dead, dried-up) raphael, and it didn't really hurt.

I think it's the oscar too. Was the bushynose's head all smashed up or something like that?

A neon tetra? About 1 inch long and thin?

How big is the gape of a raphael? Like, how big of a fish can an adult raphael swallow? A male guppy?

Since they are so small, they are in a breeder trap. I had moved them to a 30 gallon, but they didn't eat, so I moved them back to the trap because the limited space may allow the mmore food.

Well now they're eating a small amount of Tetrabits, and they seem to love grazing on the samll piece of ...

Of course. Even the Neolamprologus caudopunctatus(Tanganikan cichld) eats readily.

And the funny things is that the bigger one eats everything, while they don't.

I have 5 little ancistrus sp.3 suckers, and they won't eat! The foods I gave them are Hikiri pleco wafers(I heard they are adored), normal sinking spilurina tablets, and tetrabits. They don't eat, and all the food spoils and I have to siphon it out. This has continued for about a week, and they aren ...

Is this sp.3?



I don't have the fish yet, I'm gonna buy them this Sunday. But they are the exact same fish in the picture.

Darn. Just out of the point for a momoent, I never had good luck with internal backgrounds. The first I had was very bumpy, so waste, uneaten food and fishes could get behind there. And now I have these syrofoam backgrounds that I had to cut down to size to fit, and they look a bit ugly, with the ...

How about otos? Either the affinis or the zebra, both are cute, hard-working, small and have access to the spaces where ancistrus can't reach.

Yeah. Being a guy on impluse(Though I've been waiting for 3 months to execute the plan) I already bought the power filter for the 30. So I'll get the ancistrus for my Christmas present, and they'll just live in the 11 for a while during the aging of the filter. Or I could use a quick cyler ad/or ...

I do keep 2 sp.3, and yes, they thirve in hard water as you say.

Would keeping them temporarily in a 11 gallon be possible? Or should I wait until I set up that 30 with a external power filter ages? Because I have to be quick, people aren't gonna leave such a beautiful species alone.

I have the opportunity to get a pair of the cool white dotted black ancistrus sp.2.

Are they any different from other ancistrus? Also, the site says they are WC from Brazil. Would they have problems adjusting first to my 72 gallon Malawi cichlid tank(PH 8.0), and later to a private 30 gallon ...

Ever heard of a dream come true? A cory 3 feet long?! Cool!

But I guess I'd better just admire it. I don't think that's a REAL dream that could come true.....

I guess not very common?

And can they really grow that long? I mean, a 50cm one is cool enough, but add 40 more cm to that.....

I thought my biggest catfish shock was when I saw a redtail catfish in a public aquarium that was really 3 feet+......

Hi, I was just wondering if I could keep a single Royal pleco(As I know they aren't schoolers) in my 72 gallon hardwater(PH8) tank. I have a few questions;

The pleco(If I get one) will be a wild-caught juvie. Would it adjust to my hard water?
I have a single ancistrus sp.3 pleco in the smae tank ...

Of course I'll never keep one of these awesome catfish unless I have a at least 6 foot tank(Which will stunt it and that's cruel) but how exactly big do you think their gape size is? Being rather similar to synodontis, I think it wouldn't be very big. And the CotM article said they could be kept ...

I've mixed 6-7 inch ones with two 1.5-2 inch ones.

I don't know whether I had weird fish, but the bigger ones chased similar sized ones away, they played with the smaller ones and shared caves.

Still, the more caves the better.

I saw the article on these fellas, and am very much atracted to them.

I wish I could hear some personal experiece on these guys. Are they easy to keep generally? And could breeding really possibly be done in a species tank with these ONLY? ANd what's the minimum tank size for a group of happy and ...

The WC ones are not sp.3, I said they are completely brown. They can bought at a place that specializes in rare SA fishes(Discus, plecos, corys, cichlids)

The discus are mosy likely not WC, so it has a chance that the bushys aren''t wild caught. Still, since they're over 9cm, I think even I can sex ...

Bushy doesn't have his own cave. But as you say, the chasing aggresively is quite suspisious.

Still, I love them for what they are, even if they're a bit annoying at times!(Jump into the filter)

I'll see if I can get the WC Ancistrus pair.

I bought 6 Ancistrus sp. 3 in May at 1 inch, 4 killed themselves out of curiousity and 2 survived. One is 2.5 inches and the bristles can describe only a male, and the other is smaller with no hint of bristles at all.

The bigger one is more aggresive, and chases the smaller one. Could they be both ...

Yeah it's just that I think I have a pair of sp.3 and a good discus shore has these plain brown ancistrus, and they looked like teminkiis(Say a pic in a book)

In that case, I think I'll keep just one specie :)

Oh yeah hey, I've kept my sp.3 since they wehre under an inch. Now I have 2 left, and ...

Could this be done? One pair of Ancistrus teminkii(?), 1 pair ancistrus sp.3 and one gold nugget in the same tank, decorated with wood and some floating, fast-growing plants like anacharis or hornwort.

I see. But could I ask another question only related to SNs?

How big is the gape of a Lima? I know they are MUCH MUCH smaller than others, but how big are they?(In other words, how big of a fish can they swallow?)