Fish Story Aquarium and Rescue, Naples, FL; two 4500 gal 13'x13'x4.5'
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Catfish stock: ~148
Niger catfish 4x (3’, 2’, 2’, 2’; only one male/skinny; vacuum cleaners)
Marbled pim 2x (skinny male and full-bodied female 2’ each)
Marbled sailfin pim 3x (2’ each, indecisive, can never figure out the pecking order)
Iridescent shark 4x (1.5’, 1.5’, 10”, 9”; just lost a 28” one)
Black ear shark (6”-7”; a freak; been pacing by the window for months now)
Four-line pim 5x (7”-9”; one’s likely tetramerus, 4 blochii but one’s spots are crisp)
Sun catfish 9x (7”-10”; gluttons)
Giraffe catfish 6x (8” and 8” occidentalis cf Bouche; 3” tanganicanus or tchadiensis or else; three 6” unknown yet, still with Joefish)
Bolt catfish 2x (6” each; characters)
Albino Hemibagrus nemurus (10”-12”, not sure of species after Dr. Ng’s revision; lulls you then turns sudden predator)
Pterodoras granulosus 3x (12”, 9”, 9”; gluttons)
Irwini catfish 6x (10”; crankypants; hunger striking for the 3rd month)
Vulture catfish 6x (~12”; characters)
Aluminum (Chrysichthys genus) catfish 3x (~1’ all, one’s prob. nigricaudus, badly mangled; two ornatus)
Horse face catfish (~8”)
Synodontis 4x (6” and 8” eupterus; 6” and 10” common hybrid)
RTC 9x (12”-30”)
Jau catfish 2x (~30” 8 year old female-alpha of the 4500 gal and male-alpha-wannabee)
Paroon shark 6x (18”-24”; from Gerber’s, Dayton OH; thanks JasonGoneFishing!)
TSN 3x (18”-28”; prob. 2 fasciatum, one reticulatum or vice versa)
TSNxRTC hybrid catfish (18”)
TSNxMarbled Pim hybrid catfish (25”)
Apurensis catfish 3x (12”, 8”, 8”; all from vastly different sources, was hoping to score a nigricaudus but all turn out the same)
Silurus asotus 5x (8”-11”; characters)
Tig catfish 6x (10”, just got five 3”, thanks Manny C.!)
Lima/elongatus shovelnose catfish 8x (5”-6”)
Brown bullhead 4x (4”-5”, 2 southern and 2 northern)
Black lancer catfish 3x (3”-4”)
Trachydoras paraguayensis 3x (2”; much cory-like)
Wallago leerii (18”)
Channel catfish (18”; finless variety, the one people keep with a dozen of 1’+ pacu)
Asian USD catfish (3”; bloodthirsty weasel, at 1.5” killed my three 6” harlequin lancer catfish)
Asian RTC (15”, thanks Rouben aka rmkblades! finicky even after many months)
Gulper catfish 3x (5”; characters)
Dorado catfish 2x (1.5”; just lost a 6”-er)
Firewood catfish (had 5 over two attempts, down to one; start off excellent, in weeks or months start spinning and die; something is not right with my water, I’m guessing a pathogen affecting brain / central nervous system they have no immunity to)
Brachyplatystoma platynemum (10”; slobbering catfish or 747 catfish; the finickiest fish I’ve come across so far, even with live feeders and badly sunken tummy it is choosy)
Brachyplatystoma vaillantii (7” from Wes, finicky; need to make sure of the ID)
False piraiba Brachyplatystoma capapretum (10”; after 100 freak outs its snout is bent now)
Piraiba (18”, still at Wes’)
Common pleco ~20x (10”-18”)
Niger catfish 4x (3’, 2’, 2’, 2’; only one male/skinny; vacuum cleaners)
Marbled pim 2x (skinny male and full-bodied female 2’ each)
Marbled sailfin pim 3x (2’ each, indecisive, can never figure out the pecking order)
Iridescent shark 4x (1.5’, 1.5’, 10”, 9”; just lost a 28” one)
Black ear shark (6”-7”; a freak; been pacing by the window for months now)
Four-line pim 5x (7”-9”; one’s likely tetramerus, 4 blochii but one’s spots are crisp)
Sun catfish 9x (7”-10”; gluttons)
Giraffe catfish 6x (8” and 8” occidentalis cf Bouche; 3” tanganicanus or tchadiensis or else; three 6” unknown yet, still with Joefish)
Bolt catfish 2x (6” each; characters)
Albino Hemibagrus nemurus (10”-12”, not sure of species after Dr. Ng’s revision; lulls you then turns sudden predator)
Pterodoras granulosus 3x (12”, 9”, 9”; gluttons)
Irwini catfish 6x (10”; crankypants; hunger striking for the 3rd month)
Vulture catfish 6x (~12”; characters)
Aluminum (Chrysichthys genus) catfish 3x (~1’ all, one’s prob. nigricaudus, badly mangled; two ornatus)
Horse face catfish (~8”)
Synodontis 4x (6” and 8” eupterus; 6” and 10” common hybrid)
RTC 9x (12”-30”)
Jau catfish 2x (~30” 8 year old female-alpha of the 4500 gal and male-alpha-wannabee)
Paroon shark 6x (18”-24”; from Gerber’s, Dayton OH; thanks JasonGoneFishing!)
TSN 3x (18”-28”; prob. 2 fasciatum, one reticulatum or vice versa)
TSNxRTC hybrid catfish (18”)
TSNxMarbled Pim hybrid catfish (25”)
Apurensis catfish 3x (12”, 8”, 8”; all from vastly different sources, was hoping to score a nigricaudus but all turn out the same)
Silurus asotus 5x (8”-11”; characters)
Tig catfish 6x (10”, just got five 3”, thanks Manny C.!)
Lima/elongatus shovelnose catfish 8x (5”-6”)
Brown bullhead 4x (4”-5”, 2 southern and 2 northern)
Black lancer catfish 3x (3”-4”)
Trachydoras paraguayensis 3x (2”; much cory-like)
Wallago leerii (18”)
Channel catfish (18”; finless variety, the one people keep with a dozen of 1’+ pacu)
Asian USD catfish (3”; bloodthirsty weasel, at 1.5” killed my three 6” harlequin lancer catfish)
Asian RTC (15”, thanks Rouben aka rmkblades! finicky even after many months)
Gulper catfish 3x (5”; characters)
Dorado catfish 2x (1.5”; just lost a 6”-er)
Firewood catfish (had 5 over two attempts, down to one; start off excellent, in weeks or months start spinning and die; something is not right with my water, I’m guessing a pathogen affecting brain / central nervous system they have no immunity to)
Brachyplatystoma platynemum (10”; slobbering catfish or 747 catfish; the finickiest fish I’ve come across so far, even with live feeders and badly sunken tummy it is choosy)
Brachyplatystoma vaillantii (7” from Wes, finicky; need to make sure of the ID)
False piraiba Brachyplatystoma capapretum (10”; after 100 freak outs its snout is bent now)
Piraiba (18”, still at Wes’)
Common pleco ~20x (10”-18”)
Yes I finally saw your blochii's! They're huge!! Man do they ever keep still at all. You know where to find me if I came to visit. Thanks for sharing them. Now I wish mine came out just to swim.
Here is May 30, 2016 video update on the construction of the koi pond and its housing pavilion - a 45' long x 10' wide x 4.5' deep rubber-liner pond, approximately 2' in ground and 2.5' above ground, with a 45' x 2.5' acrylic window.
The pond volume would be 56 cubic meters or 56,000 liters or 15,000 US gallons.
The window is to be made of nine sheets of 9' x 43" x 3/4" acrylic sheets spliced front and back with 1/2" acrylic sheets. Dow 795 to be used for sealing acrylic to rubber liner.
This is to be the last exhibit (of the total 13) before we open to public at large with business hours.
Still need to pave the parking lot and walkways, get a Certificate of Occupancy, several licenses from Florida Wildlife Commission to display some conditional and prohibited fish species, and solve a few other, hopefully minor, issues.
Sorry about bad sound - it was a first try. Will try to improve the sound in the future.
The pond volume would be 56 cubic meters or 56,000 liters or 15,000 US gallons.
The window is to be made of nine sheets of 9' x 43" x 3/4" acrylic sheets spliced front and back with 1/2" acrylic sheets. Dow 795 to be used for sealing acrylic to rubber liner.
This is to be the last exhibit (of the total 13) before we open to public at large with business hours.
Still need to pave the parking lot and walkways, get a Certificate of Occupancy, several licenses from Florida Wildlife Commission to display some conditional and prohibited fish species, and solve a few other, hopefully minor, issues.
Sorry about bad sound - it was a first try. Will try to improve the sound in the future.
