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Just wanted to know what everyone has lurking in their tanks these days. Quite often catfish are overlooked or unseen when visitors see tanks as they're often shy creatures that are best seen only during feeding times. Due to this, it's even hard for even us to remember what we have sometimes. Heck, I'm even starting to lose track so if you wanna just use this thread as an inventory checklist, it's in a section that you can come back and edit and update as you wish (I know I will).

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So here's my cats. I'll include links to planetcatfish on mine so if you want to do the same just "quote" my post and you'll have a cut and paste template to do the same. I use common names as the planetcatfish link will give you Scientific names for clarification if needed.

Suckermouth Catfish

Common Bristlenose Catfish (L???) - Heaps

Albino Bristlenose Catfish (L???) - couple that I think are too young to sex

Gold Cloud Pleco (L048) - 1x 6cm juvenile

Snowball Pleco (L102) - 1x 15cm adult

Clown Pleco (L104) - 4x 6cm juveniles

Blue Phantom Pleco (L128) - 1x 7cm juvenile

Golden Blackeyed Ancistrus (L144) - keeping and breeding - quite a few

Starlight Bristlenose (L182) - breeding pair VERY close to spawning

Royal Pleco (L190) - keeping with dreams of breeding someday. 1x 16cm and 1x 11cm.

Flash Pleco (L204) - 3x 10cm youg adults

Spotted Medusa Pleco (L255) - 1x male, more on the way....

Queen Arabesque Pleco (L260) - 1x adult male

Gold Marbled Bristlenose (LDA08) - 2x 6cm adult females

Synodontus Catfish

Decorated/Clown Syno - 1x 17cm

Polka Dot Syno - 1x 10cm

Network Syno - 1x 12cm

Corydoras

Golden Leopard Corys - Heaps - keeping and breeding

Adolfo's Cory - 3 - keeping

Panda Corys - 10 - keeping and soon to breed

Skunk Corys - Just the one

Bronze Corys - half a dozen

Whiptails

Banded or Common Whiptails - Breeding Pair

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I only have a few at the moment - limited by the number of tanks I have:

Suckermouth Catfish

Common Bristlenose Catfish (L???) - keeping and breeding. Can't seem to get the fry past 1 week old tho... :oops:

Golden Blackeyed Ancistrus (L144) - keeping and hopefully breeding soon. Currently 2 adult males, 2 females, 2 juveniles.

Corydoras

Panda Corys - 5 - keeping and constantly breeding. Have a bunch of fry that are a couple of weeks old. Find new eggs every week!

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Hi

I have

L052 x 4-1male 1 female 2 juviniles have bred before but have stopped since main male died.

L270x5-Still young hopefull will breed

Peckoltia sp unknown L x 5- 3 males 2 females (i think?)

Whiptails-4males 3 females 15 or so juviniles breed all the time

Colombian loricaria x 1 male i believe

another whiptail sp x 4

LD08 x2 1 male and 1 female

kyle

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Corydoras

Panda Corys - 5 - keeping and constantly breeding. Have a bunch of fry that are a couple of weeks old. Find new eggs every week!

oh well done with that! panda cories are my favourites, would love try breeding them. but couldnt get myself a breeding stock.

i have 11 Bronze and 1 peppered cories.

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pygmy corys

5 that im going to breed when i can (hopefully)

Bristlenoses

A breeding pair (both 7-8cm), 1 medium (6cm) male, 2 smallish (possibly female??)(4cm) and around 50 odd babies (1-2cm)

I think thats about me ATM

Rogan

P.S im going to get ALOT more corys (mainly sterbai and panda and possibly some wild inports) soon once i get my big tank setup :D

P.P.S.blue, you have some nice cats man!!!!

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6 clown loaches

1 pakistani (yo yo) lochata loach

3 queen loaches

2 bronze corys

2 albino corys

2 or 3 peppered corys

2 kuhli loaches

and 5 siamese algae eaters although I'm not sure they fit into this category but they often graze on the bottom

numberous bristlenoses

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I have

1 gold nugget

1 gold line royal

1 gold heterodon

5 L204s

1 Papa Panaque

2 Hoplos

Pair of common bristlenose

1 green cory ( need to get him some mates)

1 brown tiger whiptail

and loaches ( not really cats I know but I still like them)

7 Clowns

3 yoyos

3 dwarf chains

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hey phyrestaata- did you get the L090 with the white tail or the L090c? just wondering what patterns the plain L090 has on em as i was looking into them a while back but couldnt see much pattern on them? the L090c looks very much like a royal IMO.

i just LOVE goldline royals- how big is yours and any pics?

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Hi ya

its only wee at the moment. has a nice marbling pattern on its body and almost looks a bit greenish grey. It has a white lyre tail edged with black but as is a juvenile its hard to tell what it will grow up to look like.

it also looks like an L203 but I guess time will tell...

The royal is a beautiful fish, its about 15 cm at the mo. such a slow grower. Ive had him for less than a year now but he has doubled in girth if not in length, lol.

Will get proper pics when I move them into their new 550 litre home.

cheers

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Wow, we have some good collections of cats!

Oh, tru. Mine are Gold Line Royals as well. The colour difference between golds and normals is a bit vague but the golds definitely have more contrast.

Sorry to break it to y'all but loaches may be bottom feeders but definitely aren't catfish. Great fish tho! I have 11 good sized clowns that I'm parting with soon - they're on TradeMe at the mo.

evil - thanks bud, catfish seem to be my latest passion as they go so well with discus.

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I have a couple...

2x Butterfly Plec's (breeding pair. along with quite a few babies)

2x GBA (breeding pair)

3x King Tiger plec's

3x True albino BN's (1 male, 2x female)

3x White Headspot Ancistrus (2x male 1x female)

2x Chocolate Zebra Plec's (1x male 1x female)

2x Rino Whiptail (Pair)

2x Tiger Whiptail (breeding pair)

2x Royal Whiptail

5x L002

1x Peckoltia Brevis (Or L205) male

1x L080 (I think thats what it is)

1x Clown Pleco (female)

1x Blue Phantom plec

1x Snowball plec

3x Microsynodontis polli

And I just sold my coolest cat, my Jaguar Catfish! He was awsome.

I think thats all...

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Sup CatBrat, was hoping you'd contribute here. There's still one or two big catfish collections up in Auckland that haven't popped up yet. Ah, to work in a pet shop and get wholesale prices on fish.... :lol:

Was good meeting you the other day, next time I'll try and catch ya when you're not so busy :)

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I only just got my Albino BN's so they are a bit young yet, maybe in a couple of months tho.

Haha, I sold it because it was around 18cm, ate all my new rainbow fish, lol, and I needed the space for breeding. The guy who bought it got a bargin tho, he only paid $60 for it! Oh yea, and he would bite my finger, and not let go and that really hurts, hahaha.

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phyrestaata- theyre deff L090. they max out at around 40cm but ive seen wild caughts much bigger (caught as adults). im told that a 2" growth a year is about average for these guys so its a long time till its gonna be a monster :lol: beautiful fish for sure, i was going to get one but im still undecided :lol: theyve got some adult pics on planetcatfish of them, they look quite similar from juvie to adult from the photos i saw

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Featherfin syno

Synodontis schoutedeni

4 upside down synos (Synodontis nigriventris)

4 Mycrosynodontis polli

False bumblebee catfish (Pseudomystus stenomus)

2 banjo cats

1 South American bumblebee cat(Microglanis iheringi)

hoplo

2 BN

6 emerald corys

as you can see i don't have a thing for plecs like most ppl here do :P

P.S CatBrat: how big are your microsynodontis'? one of mine is growing really fast and is now way bigger than the others lol.

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