Koi-fantast wrote: 07 Jan 2022, 17:39 Damn, that looks like food for weeks.

They eat three baby marrows in about two to four days depending on their appetite and how warm it is.

bekateen wrote: 07 Jan 2022, 14:56 Great video! And beautiful rubberlips (among my favorites)! How long have you had them?

Good luck with them,
Eric

Thank you! Just over a year now.

Yeah all of them are in and out around that big rock, but it seems the medium sized ones are the most preferred. I'll do what you suggested and report back.

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Just a quick look at my spotted bulldogs having a neighborly disagreement about who owns a particular rock.

They are still very active during the daytime, and will show this type of behavior from time to time.

My next plan is to build them a 3meter river setup around March and then ...

Thanks Jools.

I added two airstones and a strong airpump just to test, and it definitely seems the more oxygenated and agitated the water is; the more active they are. Five of the six are currently bustling about doing rubberlip stuff, which includes arguing over who has ownership of which river ...

Hi!

I have six of these: https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=308

They live in a 80cm aquarium, with four powerheads giving them a nice strong current, with two of the powerheads' venturis used to add extra aeration. I do twice weekly water changes with rainwater.

I keep ...

Oh he told me the story...

Well Shane is *almost* completely correct, impressive as he is an Africa NOOB harhar *ducks*.

OFFICIALLY our seasons are thus: 1 Nov - 1 Mar: Summer, temperature wise it can vary depending on ElNino etc.

1 Mar - 1 May: Autumn.

1 May - 1 Sept: Winter

1 Sept - 1 Nov: Spring

1 Sept is SPRING DAY ...

Hoi, yeah, this was fun! My first serious collecting trip, and time well spent with the master.

Shane forgot to mention the Juvie crock we saw and the spider that decided to use the Landy as a nest, or was it we who parked smack in the middle of the web?

I took home two male and one Female killy ...

Dang, he was a nice specimen, but they DO grow big...

A local petshop sells Albino ones for R150.00 to keep in koi ponds...

You missed the best pancakes ever!

Regards

Q

Whoah...

Did you keep that Clarias? Wow he's a beaut!

Did you go for pancakes in Sabie?

Have fun!

Q

I agree with shane, get that fishy in a tank and treat! I lost a whiptail yesterday that also was bloated and started bleeding through the skin and the base of the anal and dorsal fin before she died...

Here and Here are two threads I posted on PCF over the past few days regarding her.

Hope you ...

No matter what he is, he's a beaut!

Hokay, here are the pics of my "Autopsy"...

Like I said, the female started bleeding through her skin and vent, shortly afterwards she died, and I decided to open her up.

The first sign of trouble came the moment I pierced her skin, red and yellow fluids came out:

http://i72.photobucket.com ...

She died.

She started bleeding through her skin and died shortly afterwards.

I opened her up to find one of her ovaries had an infection. Her intestines seems fine, no constipation, but she had one healthy and one yellow bleeding ovary.

Her swelling was because she was chock full of eggs, and it ...

I posted some pics of here under another thread, so I won't post new ones unless you guys ask me too.

I placed her and the male in a tank of their own, did the rainwater thing and fed vegetable foods.

I am still unsure if it is constipation or her being (extremely) gravid, but the swelling in her ...

Powerheads.

Seriously, I had to make do with air pumps and box filters for many years.

And the size of the tank also plays a role, the larger the slower unwanted changes are the better, but a larger tank also means more work for "wanted" changes like simulated rainfall...

Did a water change and here are the water parameters:

Parameters Of tank before water change:

NO3 = 50mg/l
NO2 = 0mg/l
GH = Between 6 and 10deg
KH = 6deg
PH = 7.2
Temp = 27Celsius

Parameters of Rainwater:


NO3 = 0mg/l
NO2 = 0mg/l
GH = Less than 3deg
KH = 0deg
PH = 6.4
Temp = 18Celsius ...

Haha yeah I meant that tongue in cheek.

I am serious about googling the fish farms, some of them export and you can get some nice Clarias, Shlibidae and other large catfish at better than hobby prices from them.

I don't know if they export to the US of A but I reckon its worth a shot...

Sure, come to South Africa, we have tons here!

Otherwise, google some South African fish farms. Many of them breed C Gariepinus for food for our prison population, maybe one of them can help you out?

Right, I am going to move the two of them to a small tank of their own and see what happens...

Haha, if you get them small enough they become catfish fodder, but you are right, they are intelligent buggers, and nasty too!

These three are the only ones left of about 9 that I put in.

I checked again, and the largest one is allmost 2cm, and even at 1cm they bully the cats whenever they can.

I ...

Yeah our LFS in Pretoria has about 20 of them as well as 15ish albino ones. I was wondering what it was, now I know...

I put a pipe in a while ago, and the male is just not interested, maybe I will put in some more, he's probably a bit picky...

I also thought that it might be gut blockage.

Would she stop eating because of it, because she is eating like a horse!

I flipped her over, but can't see roe, but neither is there a large dark patch that I have noticed with blockages before...

Also her size has remained steady for the last month ...

Sorry, I tried to edit my post but it seems to throw away a paragraph every time:

Here is my parameters:

Parameters

NO3: 50-100 mg/l
NO2: 0 mg/l
GH: +6deg - 10deg
KH: 3deg
PH: 6.4
Temp: 25celsius

Whater changes every second week (50%)

New water params:

NO3: 0 mg/l
NO2: 0 mg/l
GH: + 6deg ...

Hello. I have two brown whips, a male and female (I am almost 100% sure.)

Here is the male:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i178/AndGodSed/Planetcatfish/WhipMalePCF.jpg

He is exactly 110mm (I measured him before posting) and has the stiff bristle like growths on his pectoral fins, head ...

If I could find one fault with this book, it would be that common fish names are only provided in Afrikans. This seems a glaring oversight given that Afrikaners make up only a small percentage of the population of the areas covered.

The above is from my review of the Freshwater Fishes of Southern ...

Well, since the topic is SA fish, let me pitch in here.

When I just started out fishkeeping and did not have heated tanks I kept some fish I caught locally.

In some areas in south africa, especially the highveld, day and night temps could vary as much as 10 - 12 celsius.

seasonally there are even ...