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Simon - 2013-05-14
I have a Chocolate Catfish who is roughly 9 years old now. When he was small he liked to live in a coral rock we had and 1 day we realised he'd got stuck in it due to his spines. We tried various methods of getting him free, including carrying the rock outside and banging it on the floor! He must have been out the water for nearly 30 mins as we tried to free him (we kept dipping him back in obviously) and in the end i got a hammer and chisel and chipped away part of the rock. He looked a bit bruised and we weren't sure he'd last the night but he's still going strong

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Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
Wow, what an interesting experience. I'm glad he's still going strong... they are pretty tough dudes:)

kye turnbull - 2013-05-14
my mum loves these fishes mouths! im going to get her some as present when i get my tetra tank!

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Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
They are very cool fish, and fairly hardy. Best to make sure you get enough of them though, and have plenty of space so they can get out of each other's way if one decides to be belligerent.

kye turnbull - 2013-05-08
i cant keep these my tandanus catfish kills them for fun D: i put three in all died i wondered why, so i got them out and my tandanus cat went balistic at the one i was getting out!! i feed my tandanus live gambusia affins everyday (they are a pest where i live so i feed it ones from the creek) and it loves them!

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Clarice Brough - 2013-05-09
Well at least your Tandanus Catfish are happy:) Sounds like a great situation, even if you can't keep a Bristlenosed Catfish with them.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-14
tandanus catfish are beautiful fish and are very funny, but they can grow up to 90 cm long! my one is 17 cm long, it is becoming a real pet!

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
my male looks staved even after being fed blood worms, he is eating fine has no ripped fins no symptoms of being sick and acts fine? anyone know whats wrong? hes been like this for about 5 months

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-12
What else do you feed the fish? How often?
kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
2 blocks of blood worms per day it is with a whole bunch of guppies and some more cherry barbs
Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-13
I would try adding some High quality flake food to their diet.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
i feed em some fish eggs, flake and pellets to

Anonymous - 2012-01-25
Hi, my science teacher is giving me her red bellie pacu and I plan on keeping it in a 150 gallon tank with 3 senegal bichirs, 4 fire mouth cichlids, some kind of darter, some mosquito fish, and 4 feeder fish. I will introduce the fish thruogh out the period of 1-3 months. the pacu is presently 8-10 inches and blind in it's left eye. My teacher feeds it flakes and live fish from time to time. Are there any fish I could also put in the tank to keep the pacu away from the other fish and can I change its diet to mostly veggies and some meat, no live fish included. P.S., can you keep a pacu with piranhas?

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Charlie Roche - 2012-01-25
It's great your science teacher is giving you a Pacu but is he giving you a tank to go with him?> A Pacu when an adult is going to go about 3/12 feet and weigh about 60 pounds. You need a thousand gallon tank. If it will fit in his mouth, he will eat it. Pacu with Piranhas - I guess it is whoever gets bigger first. Piranhas will eat anything. Did your science teacher ever read up on what he was doing?
Anonymous - 2012-01-26
The store person said it wouldn't get bigger than its tank, the store person lied.
Charlie Roche - 2012-01-27
I don't know whether he store person 'lied' or just mis informed. Fish not out growing their tank is a myth - an old wives tale used to sell more fish. In any case he is not a good or reliable informtion source.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
a fish will grow slower in a small tank but will still get big

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
is it truly hard to breed fighting fish? im only 11 and i have bred my fighting fish and they are almost 7 weeks old! thanks to all the people that replayed and helped me and thanks to this web site!

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-13
That is an amazing job. They are not the easiest fish to breed. Be very pround of doing this!
David Brough - 2013-05-13
Thats really cool beans Kye. Bettas were the first fish I ever bred too:) The hardest part was keeping them alive, you are doing great at 7 weeks!
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
there not my first fish ive bred, first i bred gambusia affins when i was 5 years old, then i bred guppy( but they were all midgets) and then these, but they are my first egg laying fish ive bred, and i once got a male and female that hated each other, now i have 2 that were love at first site, its so easy now, just put em in together next day a nest filled with eggs, but i couldn't have done it with out the help of all the replyers and this website. thanks!
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
i also had many problems with this brood they are still extremely small and hatched 48 hours after being laid, i hope they live
Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
I hope they do too. I bred Siamese Fighting Fish a number of years ago, and the biggest challenge I had was having a small tank for each of the babies. So many little tanks and they had to have regular water changes done... so took a lot of time...lol. But it was fun and a very rewarding experience.

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
my corydoras went mental and kept swimming forward 24 7

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-13
Water conditions will do that sometimes. I would do an amonia test.

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
is it usual for a 10 cm black ghost knife to eat a 5 cm gambusia affins?

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-12
Some can be aggressive and will eat anything that will fit in their mouth.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
mine is very easily scarred and is picky on what it eats it only ate one

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
wish i could keep these fish its illegal in australia

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-12
THey are incredible fish! More personality then most fish.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
ohh boy do i wish

Larry Hamblin - 2013-05-11
my 6 month old male albino long finned bristle-nose died and I don't know what it was!!!he was in a tank with 2 normal bristle-nose that I have had for about 6 years another longfinned female bristle-nose I got around the same time, 3 rams, 8 neons, 4 khuli loaches!

Well it all started when I got 2 dwarf flag cichlids 2 months back(I think anyway) about 1 week after introducing these little guys to the tank I noticed the free swimming fish glancing there sides on bits of dirft wood then I notice the horrable little things that I think are the problem! mites! hundreds of tiny red ones about half a mm long!!

The albinos first sign of being sick was the veins in his head became very noticable!(bright red) so I done a 30% water change and cleaned the filter! after that he hid for about a week but came out with the bloats, so I set up a 35L tank with 70% water from the big tank and some fresh stuff! gave him a 5min salt bath between switching tanks! he sat under drift wood in the tank without moving much the next time I saw him out he had swelling over 80% of his face and pop eye two weeks later he died, when I pulled him out of the tank he had 5 blisters down his flanks between 4mm and 8mm in size!! very swollen belly but didn't look like bloat, the pop eye had gone about 2 days earlier so I thought he was one the mend!!

1) do you think he got enternal parasites from eating mites???

2) what else could it have been???

3) will it sprend to my other fish???

4) whats best to treat the tank with???

I'm spewing cause I had just given the last of my sterazin to a friend for their fish!! and another thing now 1 of my rams has either the mites stuck all over 1 fin or ich but i turned the tank up to 35c and whatever it is didn't drop off and multicure isn't working!! looks like ich but bigger!! don't think its the mites heaps bigger and not red more white/pink nearlly look like lice but smaller! any ideas on these would be much appreciated!!!

cheers!!

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David Brough - 2013-05-12
Hey Larry,

I would try a copper based ich medication like aquarisol or coppersafe if you don't have invertebrates in the aquarium that you want to live. If you do, you can take them out before medicating. If you think you may have a secondary bacterial infection (pop-eye, fin rot, etc) you could also treat with anti-biotic or anti-fungal medication like melafix and pimafix, methylene blue, malachite green, maracin or any of the many anti-bacterial and fungal medications. It sounds like you may have introduced one or several diseases when you added the flag cichlids and yes, it may spread to the other fish. Good luck, I hope this works for you.
Clarice Brough - 2013-05-13
I'm so sorry to hear about your fish! What a disaster, I too think a parasite was introduced with your new fish. I did a bit of researching, and one thing I thought might be the parasite is fish lice. These little parasites come attached to a host, and as they infect the fish, small red spots or sores develop. So that may be the type of parasite you are dealing with.

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