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Called a hi-fin achara cat. Nine inches long.
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Definitely a hi-fin catfish. Not an achara. Beautiful.
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Two 2-inch Asian red-tail catfish atop a 3-inch achara catfish.
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10-inch Asian red-tail catfish. Nice full belly.
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2.5" albino Asian red-tail cat. Looks like an albino channel
cat but stays smaller.
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Yes, he does like rosy reds.
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A rock leaning against the front glass makes an irresistible cave.
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Giraffe catfish -- quite scuffed up. He succumbed to his shipping
injuries.
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Leopard catfish. Similar but different.
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Another leopard catfish.
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Sold to us as an achara catfish -- two inches long.
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Same guy a month later at 2.5."
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Four-inch achara catfish.
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Same guy a little closer.
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Under belly view.
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At 1.25" these hummingbird catfishes won't pick on too many fishes.
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Another hummingbird example. They stay little.
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Turushuki Catfish. Unusual but good community fish. Should be black.
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Same guy a week later. Top fin not up yet.
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So we pestered him till he flared his dorsal -- at least a bit.
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14-incher here. Turushukis get much larger.
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For such a huge catfish, turushukis cause few problems.
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Three-inch "white" turushuki.
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He continues to refuse to pop that dorsal fin up.
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Looks like this prior to burial at sea.
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He's got his dorsal up here.
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Intriguing mouth on turushukis (and tiger shovelnoses).
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Porthole catfish -- named for the dots along his lateral line -- about two
inches.
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Four-inch flagtail porthole catfish.
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Much better flagtail, Prochilodus.
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School of three-inch bull sharks.
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Gold lancer catfish, 2 inches.
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Not great at displaying.
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Some California blackworms perk them up.
VA, September 14, 2008
Hi, I wanted to tell you about "Golden Lancer Catfish". Your site was
one of the only ones I could find anything about my fish on.
Golden Lancer Catfish have several scientific names, the more popular
being
Batasio fluviatilis and
Batasio havmolleri. They come
from streams in Thailand, and they seem to like cool (not cold) soft,
slightly acid water. I have owned 2 for just over a year know and until
recently they got along perfectly fine. They have started biting each
others' fins and wrestling and poking with their spines. I have moved
them to a 55 gallon with 3 large angelfish and 5 zebra danios. The
catfish really appreciate caves to hide in during the day and sword
plants next to the side of the tank that they can rest under. While they
are reasonably peaceful, they did bully a black shark that I had for a
while. I feed them brine shrimp, blackworms, flakes, and chopped boiled
spinach but I notice they prefer the brine shrimp to anything else.
Their stomachs swell to the size of those grapes, the really big ones, I
they they're called atlas grapes.
Just thought I might try and provide some info you might eventually find
useful.
PS: Could not find anything on hatchetfish on your site. What's
up with that?
A: I added your info to the page where I showed their
picture. I shot them four or five years ago and have not seen them
since. Thanks for the info. Look for hatchet info in our Smaller
Tetra page. LA
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Same fish in a different tank.
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1.5" Hoplosternum thoracatums. Cute.
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Better pic of another strain.
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From another batch of the cute little devils.
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Not all are marked the same.
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Callichthys catfish, often called hoplos
also. Obviously much larger.
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Callichthys about the size of a Johnsonville brat (before grilling).
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Sold to us as porthole catfish. Looks more like callichthys.
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Six-inch jaguar catfish, Lisomadoras oncinus. (maybe)
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Jaguar cats spend 99% of their time hiding. Same fish as above.
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1.75" Brachyrhamdia imitator -- not a corydoras. Surprise.
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One of the leopard plecos.
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Six-inch gracilis pictus (probably)
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Corydoras barbodes. Not seen very often. Not a good survival
rate.
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Raphaels prefer to spend 99% of their time hiding. They
grunt when picked up.
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Two 9" sun cats getting along very well with a 10" royal
clown knife fish.
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Mast fin catfish. New one for us.
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Another mast fin catfish.
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Dolphin catfish. New to
us.
Same catfish two days later.
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Same guy three weeks later.
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? Called a whale catfish.
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Called a gulper catfish. About three inches long. Ompok whatever.
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Too large a red-tail catfish at Randy & Kay Davison's Wet Pet Outlet,
Eldora, Iowa.
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