David R

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Only if their owner is silly enough to mix them in a community tank. On the plus side, they have more personality than any of the other fish mentioned in this thread, and will be much more of a 'pet'.

Yes you can I've seen plenty of catfish kept with turtles. Fly River turtles that is... There are many species of turtles kept in aquariums, and literally hundreds of different catfish from 2cm peaceful schooling community catfish to 3'+ predatory monsters. It pays to give as much info as possible when asking questions.

Nice dat, good colours! Is that my old palmas that Hans bought?

Convicts are nearly indestructible. I had one live for a months on an unheadted, unfiltered tank I had in full sun on a north facing deck in late summer/autumn. He thrived, despite the regular 95% water changes straight from the hose and very irregular feeding, and grew into a fat chunky male with a nice hump on his forehead. Eventually I decided he was too nice a fish to leave outside and brought him in. If you want a fun, newbie-proof fish then you can't go past them. Oh, and he started out as a 1cm feeder in a tank with a black arowana, oscars, jag, and fire eel!

Hollywood Mt Roskill had a few albinos. Sounds like a nice collection.

How big is your delhezi now? The only other person I know who got one said his has grown really slowly. My palmas hit 8" in about a year or so, but his del is still tiny. It was one of the smaller ones (possibly a runt) but he picked it because it had the best colours.

Hollywood got a shipment of bichirs about 3 years ago, palmas, senegal and delhezi. This was the first time I'd ever seen small ones offered for sale here. Delhezi is on the list and I'd happily grab 3-6 if more came in.... Good to hear about the new purchases, post up some pics, I want to see the del!! Oh, and did someone say ornates and tetras.... :lol:

There's not much point in going wider when the fish can only swim twice its body length before having to turn around again. AFAIK asian aro's dont grow anywhere near as fast as silvers. Have a look on MFK and see how many 2'+ asian aro's there compared to 2'+ silvers. In a big tank a silver could hit 2' in under two years, but from what I've heard it could take 3-5+ years for an asian. So no, the asian aro won't out-grow that tank very quickly (not like a silver would). I think it'll be right for at least 2-3 years, maybe more.

BACKFIRE! I didn't paint the back of my current 4' tank before setting it up and I've been kicking myself ever since!! Tank looks good, what kind of bichirs and how big?

LOL! I guess thats a good reason to stick to pellets and shrimp...

Wow, that was very controlled! I was expecting a big splash and water all over the floor!! Check out APROPHECY's post in the rare fish forum if you want to see a big silver.

HFF = Hollywood Fish Farm 36 Frost Road Mt Roskill www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz Still can't help with the name, was on the shelf next to the blue whitespot cure stuff almost behind the counter.

See what happens I'd say. If they start getting too aggressive/defensive then remove the eggs or fry.

HFF is the name of the shop (well the abbreviation for it anyway), and its probably not much help to you anyway given its at the other end of the country! :lol:

I noticed HFF were selling 100ml bottles of some worming stuff with a big long name, with their own printed labels on it. Its $50 per bottle, and 5ml treats something like 50 or 100L, so the 100ml bottle was about 10x as much as I needed, and they don't sell it in smaller bottles. Anyone want to go shares in a bottle?? :lol:

At the time [about 6 years ago] I knew nothing about sexing them and they would always lay the eggs when I was out, so I made my judgement on the fact that none of the eggs ever looked fertilised.

+1 for both of those! With in an hours drive from whangarei there are countless nice beaches, whananaki (barrons and otamure) and oakura are beautiful. You would be best to make somewhere like that your base and do a couple of day trips with out the caravan if you want to explore a bit more. I've got countless great childhood memories from holidays there. And call in to see Richard at Northland Aquarium on Camron St, he's got a nice reef tank on display, and a cool out door pond.

At my first BDO Offspring were playing on the right hand stage, followed by soundgarden on the left stage. When offspring finished I was standing about 5 metres in front of the sound control thing and a bit to the right. The croud surged in anticipation of soundgarden and by the time it stop I had been carried (I was 15 at the time, and around 6' but built like a rake) to right in front of the left stage and about 2/3 of the way back towards the far end of the field. It was pretty freaky, I had no control over where I was going, just held onto people and went with it.

Here's a few blackwater pics I found somewhere ages ago I think there was a link in the Catfish forum to a thread at PlanetCatfish which had some interesting pics of biotope tanks a habitat pictures. It was of a fairly rocky fast-moving area rather than the flooded forrest/blackwater type.

Its not the first time BDO have done something like that. I think Scribe got a spot on the main stage between two fairly big rock bands one year that I was there. It was funny sitting in the stand watching the crowd. I went to The Police last night, was a great concert (especially only paying $150 for two good tickets on TM!), amazing lighting show!

I had a pair of uarus that regularly laid eggs, but I never saw any fry. I guess they were lesbians. :-?

Don't know don't care. :lol:

Amazon fish yes, amazon biotope no. The amazon rivers aren't a lush green forrest of plants. The amazon is one of the biggest (the biggest?) river systems in the world, and I imagine there are hundreds of different biotopes you could choose, some with lots of rock and almost no wood, others all wood and no rocks. Take your pick.

Where do you get it? I've got a couple of uaru that don't seem very hundry and aren't growing much.