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Benjamin
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Post by Benjamin »

Hi all :)

I'm looking for nice catfish to add to my catfish/cichl*d tank.

I especially like the bigmouth cats.
Since i live in the middle of nowhere i have nothing intresting in my area, who can tell me where to get nice cats for my 200x65x80cm tank?

Allready have a Ornate bagrid witch made my catfish addiction start, have some pleco's en Lnumbers aswell.

For example searching these species:
Liosomadoras oncinus
Sorubim lima
Pseudomystus siamensis
Orinocodoras eigenmanni

Many thanks for info in advance!
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Marc van Arc
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Post by Marc van Arc »

Hi & welcome to PC.
First off: what's an Ornate bagrid?
My first idea would be
Pimelodus ornatus
.
About LFS-ses:
Oranje Hoogerheide used to be quite nice and is not very far from your place(but I don't know if it still exists...)
Maanvis Nijmegen is okay
Aqua Ferrytale Amersfoort has nice fishes
Aqua Tropica Zevenaar ditto.
Van Haren Den Bosch usually has some odd fish.
I don't know if all these shops have websites, but you could google for them.

BTW: the chance of finding all 4 species you're looking for in place is very limited.
For example P. siamensis: I've seen 2 in Deurne and 1 in Eindhoven, which of course doesn't make a group.
I'm looking for L. oncinus myself. I was able to buy 2 females in Germany some years ago and haven't seen them since while they seem to be pretty abundant in the UK these days.
Usually I go to Germany to find unusual catfishes.
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Chrysichthys
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Post by Chrysichthys »

The Ornate bagrid is
Chrysichthys ornatus
, dating from before the African bagrids were split off as Claroteidae.
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Marc van Arc
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Post by Marc van Arc »

Chrysichthys wrote:The Ornate bagrid is
Chrysichthys ornatus
Ummm, yes, of course :oops:. Didn't think of that one. Thanks, Chrysichthys.
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Benjamin
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Post by Benjamin »

That's the one indeed.

Tnx for the info Marc!
The lfs in Hoogerheide is currently called Bubbelsbv.nl and has a little bit of everything but unfortunatly only the very common fishes.

Tryed to visit de maanvis last week, couldn't find it and ran out of time, sh*t happens :)

Will try to visit again soon and also the other menthioned places.
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Bas Pels
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Post by Bas Pels »

You got my instructions, and my phone number in case you don't succeed

Bas

BTW Hi, welcom on PC
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Benjamin
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Post by Benjamin »

Yeps i now have aditional instructions :)
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roel jansen
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Post by roel jansen »

Hello Benjamin,

I've send you a pm also :)
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