Catfish - what do you keep?

thanks darren. i think hes eating the eggs. might try raising temp. its about 25.

better late than never

1 lima shovelnose
1 featherfin syno
1 fourline pictus
2 spotted talkers
3 striped talkers
2 chocolate talkers
2 asian redtails
2 aluminium cats
1 Brachyplatystoma juruense
2 asian bumblebee cats
1 mottled cat
1 pseudoplatystoma sp. shovelnose cat
1 pterodoras granulosus (one of my favourite fish)
1 wood cat
2 bristlenose plecos
1 cetopsis (another one of my favourite fish, complete psychopath, super hyper when being fed)
2 columbian shark cats
1 black lancer
1 african spotted catfish
6 banjo cats
2 of the small upsidedown swimming syno's
8 paroon sharks
1 niger catfish
1 suncat
1 giraffe cat
2 chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (very active for catfish)
2 megladoras irwini
4 indian blue catfish
1 grasscutter cat
2 pseudopimelodus apurensis
1 chaca burmensis (again, another personal favourite)
1 rubbernose pleco
2 snowflake pleco's
1 angelicus pleco
2 tiger peckoltia pleco's
1 albino sailfin pleco
1 hoplo cat

think that's the lot
love catfish, by far my favourite type of fish to keep...

Des

that is one bad ass list Des

cheers Dar
selling all my cichlids soon to replace them with more cats...
can't get enough of them
would love a Platynematichthys notatus, maybe someday

That is an amazing list of cats alright Des! If your ever making shapes to get Platynematichthys notatus shipped in sometime, please get in touch with me, its a fish i am deffinitely going to keep someday - hopefully hopefully hopefully!!

Rolly wrote:

That is an amazing list of cats alright Des! If your ever making shapes to get Platynematichthys notatus shipped in sometime, please get in touch with me, its a fish i am deffinitely going to keep someday - hopefully hopefully hopefully!!

will do
amazing looking fish

Des i think its also available from Peru its know as a Lince catfish.. i think.... ill have a look at both tmw and get back to you tmw

That is some list Des

Would love to see some pics of the Cetopsis.

If you like Platynematichthys notatus you are sure to like Calophysus macropterus. Was just reading a great article on them recently

www.scotcat.com/articles/article103.htm

great list of cats Des,how does the asian rtc get on with other fish ,or are they seperate.u got a niger,great cat they grow like weeds

brian

serratus wrote:

Des i think its also available from Peru its know as a Lince catfish.. i think.... ill have a look at both tmw and get back to you tmw

howaya Drew

lince catfish (Platynematichthys notatus)
thats her alright
look forward to hearing from you

cheers
Des

brian wrote:

great list of cats Des,how does the asian rtc get on with other fish ,or are they seperate.u got a niger,great cat they grow like weeds

brian

Hi Brian

the asian rtc gets on grand with other fish
there all tough guys he's in with...
my Niger doesn't eat much, he's very shy aswell, taking a while to settle but seriously cool fish
wanted one for a long time as you know

cheers
Des

2poc wrote:

Would love to see some pics of the Cetopsis

fed him a while ago, used my new full hd video camera, having problems with the file format
trying to convert it at the moment...
cool vid hope it works

Des

still no luck with the other vid so i made another one with the old camera
he'd already been fed at this stage so he's only in second gear but still hard to keep up with....

hahahahahaha man that had me in tears it goes crazy as soon as the music starts:laugh:

Stephen wrote:

hahahahahaha man that had me in tears it goes crazy as soon as the music starts:laugh:

haha cool, you'd wanna see him when he's hungry !!!

Ok, thought i'd add my list of cats as well so here it goes
12x Corydoras arcuatus, 7x Corydoras hastatus, 6x Corydoras gossei, 10x Corydoras habrosus, 2x Corydoras leopardus,
20x Corydoras melanotaenia, 16x Corydoras paleatus Hifin, 4x Corydoras oiapoquensis, 8x Corydoras pygmaeus,
6x Corydoras schwartzi, 4x Corydoras similis, 15x Corydoras sterbai, 10x Gold laser Corydoras, 4x Scleromystax barbatus,
2x Lophiobagrus brevispinis, 2x Otocinclus flexilis, 2x Panaque nigrolineatus, 2x Panaque sp. (L204), 8x Synodontis petricola, 5x Synodontis multipunctata, 6x Synodontis pardalis, 4x synodontis granulosus and 2 species of bristlenoses... think thats them all

Des, that fish is mental... I think I read stories of them attacking people before? Could be wrong. How does he get on with tankmates?

Seamus - do you like corys? Over 100 of them !! That must be some kind of record. Some nice synos and panaques there too.

2poc wrote:

Des, that fish is mental... I think I read stories of them attacking people before? Could be wrong. How does he get on with tankmates?

i'm a little wary of him when i have my hands in the tank
when he eats he just annihilates his food
he's killed one or two fish in the past
bored straight threw them
a fine set of conical teeth designed for parasitic style feeding on this cousin of the infamous Candiru Asu

that Cetopsis is one psycho fish,mental,and i heard they are a shoaling fish. mad fish Des

BTW don,t let largish pacus bite u,their teeth are sharp enough to draw blood with the pressure of a vice.was feeding catf
ish individually when mr pacu thought he would have a fillet of fish to but got my finger instead.

brian

Mental Fish that cetopsis.........and only in second gear :O............

Sterbai corys,Peppered corys,Panda corys,Clown Plecs and Ottos.....Thats what i keep........Love them all to death........Before i started keeping fish i used to think catfish were the ugliest things in the world...I couldnt have been more wrong............CATFISH ARE FANTASTIC AND BEAUTIFUL..........ALL OF THEM!!!!!

des wrote:

2poc wrote:

Des, that fish is mental... I think I read stories of them attacking people before? Could be wrong. How does he get on with tankmates?

i'm a little wary of him when i have my hands in the tank
when he eats he just annihilates his food
he's killed one or two fish in the past
bored straight threw them
a fine set of conical teeth designed for parasitic style feeding on this cousin of the infamous Candiru Asu

Didnt Arnie tell the girl to "get to the choppa!!" before goin hand to hand with that thing???

Jay

That looks like a mad thing alright.
You'd get dizzy watching him for to long;)
Lovely fish Des.

Dan

brian wrote:

BTW don,t let largish pacus bite u,their teeth are sharp enough to draw blood with the pressure of a vice.was feeding catf
ish individually when mr pacu thought he would have a fillet of fish to but got my finger instead.

ouch !!!

yeah that's right, they'd take a lump out of You
watch they're sharp underbelly aswell

Des

Viperbot wrote:

Didnt Arnie tell the girl to "get to the choppa!!" before goin hand to hand with that thing???

Jay

hahahaha brilliant

Des

check this out for cheese

des wrote:

check this out for cheese

LMFAO . Bravo .

Jay

gunnered1972 wrote:

Mental Fish that cetopsis.........and only in second gear :O............

Sterbai corys,Peppered corys,Panda corys,Clown Plecs and Ottos.....Thats what i keep........Love them all to death........Before i started keeping fish i used to think catfish were the ugliest things in the world...I couldnt have been more wrong............CATFISH ARE FANTASTIC AND BEAUTIFUL..........ALL OF THEM!!!!!

you took the words out of my mouth, when i first started keeping fish it was just small shoals of Tetra, nothing else, didn't want to know about them, got some Pleco's strickly just to keep the glass clean, then a long time later i got a striped talking catfish and that was that...............
used to love keeping Corys but i can't any more, they'd be scoffed

Des

2poc wrote:

Seamus - do you like corys? Over 100 of them !! That must be some kind of record. Some nice synos and panaques there too.

not really , no love the lttle lads, they breed well for me, extra pocket money to be spent on other fishies

Couple of updates since original list:

- 1 Cephalosilurus Apurensis, about 6 inches and growing rapidly
- 1 Auchenoglanis occidentalis (Giraffe catfish) 15 or 16 inches
- 2 Megladoras Irwini 6/7 inches
- 1 Oxydoras Niger 8 inches
- 1 Common Bristlenose 4 inches
- 1 Starlight Bristlenose (L182) 6 inches
- 2 White Seam Starlight Bristlenose (L183) 3 inches
- 1 L177 Golden Nugget 3 inches
- 1 L018 Golden Nugget 3.5 inches

The list now also includes:
- 1 L014 Scobinancistrus aureatus 6 inches
- 1 Synodontis Decorus 4 inches
- 2 Synodontis Angelicus 4 inches

Some nice new additions Patrick. Well done.

I was looking at an Angelicus the other week that must have been 14" in length. A bit of a monster.