its not a synodontis, but a catfish of the family claroteidae. shares its family with the likes of chrysichthys and auchenoglanis like itself.

get big, be prepared for a whoppa!

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keeping soft bodied catfish with rays is a disaster waiting to happen. the spine on a rays tail can cause significant damage even to armoured catfish, but it has been known to kill soft bodied catfish. there was a shop locally that kept auchenoglanis with P14 - needless to say one morning the giraffe cat was dead. they asked me to come and see why it had died. you could quite clearly see an entry wound so i have no doubt it was caused by the spine of one of the rays

Alex

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thats what I was thinking. Which is why I was gonna avoid it. Everythings in the holding tanks at the moment anyway.

But the new pond is finished and ready to go. I got going a bit quicker than i planned and its all filled up and theres about 50 platys in there just to get the filter going a little bit. the first 4 peacocks go in on sunday , i think the Temensis are gonna go first. They seem to be more laid back then the monos.

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1.1 leos, 1.1 fat tails, 0.2 Beardies, 1 Whites, 2.0 Cresties, 4.1 Cats, Fish: 4.4 P. Dovii, 5.5.6 Peacock Bass (5 sp), 1.1 C 'Cobra', 1.1 festae, 1.1 green terror, 1.1 nics, 1.1 C. Marmorata, 1.1 C. Johani, 1.1 C. 'Strigata', 1.1 C. 'red tapojas'; 1.1 P. Friedrichsthalli, 1.1 Mots, 1.1 managuense, 1.1 H. Bocourti, 1.1 H. Pearsi, 1.1 H. Carpinte, 1.1 H. Cynoguttatum, 1.1 V. Argentea, 1.1 V. Zonatus, 1.1 N. Salvini, 2.2 Grammodes, 3.4 Hoplarchus Pssiticus, 2.2 Trimacs, 3.4 haitiensis, 1.1 tetracanthus, 3.2 Red tiger mots, 14 Uaru (2 sp) 1.1 Umbies, 2 Arapaima, 3 Red tail catfish, 1.1 P. Leopoldii, 1.1 P. Motoro, 3 Silver Arowana, Var. polypterus, var. Channa sp, M. wyckii, 3 siamese tigers, 2 jelly catfish, 1 Golden dorado
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Very nice fish there, awesome.

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Nice fish.

Rays and catfish. A friend has rays and a giraffe catfish in a very large tank. The giraffe cat tends to bully the rays (and others) about a bit. I think its a tank size issue. If you can't get away from an angry ray...

yeah....this tank is 900gal.... maybe that's why.

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Very nice i have tiger synodontis i find them so crazy..lol



i have sand in my tank and bought some horse face loaches and they are great to watch they change to the colour of your sand we call them sand shifter