Great thread, you're surely one of the people here with the most big cat species now, look forward to seeing them all at a larger size!
New fish we just picked up
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Good night that dude is a unit!
I'm not entirely sure on the species still either. Can't see the eyes well enough to be sure in my ID, and the eyes are the critical first step in keying a goonch.
I'm not entirely sure on the species still either. Can't see the eyes well enough to be sure in my ID, and the eyes are the critical first step in keying a goonch.
Not sure if these are close enough to help but .........
So, the variegatus is quite an interactive cat, similar to the Wykii in that it’s extremely curious, extremely territorial and extremely hungry! It keeps dismantling the air driven filter and tears apart all the Java fern.
A typical bagrid.
A typical bagrid.
So, having struggled to id my bagarius for a while now I saw a post recently suggesting bagarius bagarius could tend to have, round eyes, wing like pectorals and a bent dorsal fin. Interestingly, the fish I have long thought as indochina may be bagarius- highland giant.
some of the earlier photos show the round eyes and the bent dorsal. These show the huge wings he has!
some of the earlier photos show the round eyes and the bent dorsal. These show the huge wings he has!
Yeah the round eyes have it. You were correct initially, I'm sorry for the confusion.
So, things went bad yesterday. The piriaba had reached 17” and sharing a 6x2x2 grow out tank with a 14” l. Marmoratus and a 20” Goonch was not without the odd split fin or bent whisker anymore.
the day had come to try him in the pond.
As soon as he was in, the vulture cat was following him, simply because he was so skittish darting everywhere.
suddenly he didn’t look so big anymore ( the vulture is over 2 ft). If he had settled I am not sure there would have been as much of an issue but in a darting run he went straight behind the second liner and the wykii started beating on him in seconds. I had him out in under a minute with split fins, clean snapped pectoral fin, grazed bites but the real damage was the shock.
he started stiffening up as soon as he was back out of harms way and an hour later he had given up.
I think if he had not been so skittish he may have had a chance as he would never have gone for cover and into the wykii’s domain normally and if not charging about like a loony the vulture would have left him alone. Only issue then would have been the sperata.
Better grow the Goonch on some more as he WILL want to try to share behind the liner with the 28” Wykii.
We learn by our mistakes.
the day had come to try him in the pond.
As soon as he was in, the vulture cat was following him, simply because he was so skittish darting everywhere.
suddenly he didn’t look so big anymore ( the vulture is over 2 ft). If he had settled I am not sure there would have been as much of an issue but in a darting run he went straight behind the second liner and the wykii started beating on him in seconds. I had him out in under a minute with split fins, clean snapped pectoral fin, grazed bites but the real damage was the shock.
he started stiffening up as soon as he was back out of harms way and an hour later he had given up.
I think if he had not been so skittish he may have had a chance as he would never have gone for cover and into the wykii’s domain normally and if not charging about like a loony the vulture would have left him alone. Only issue then would have been the sperata.
Better grow the Goonch on some more as he WILL want to try to share behind the liner with the 28” Wykii.
We learn by our mistakes.
Sorry about the loss, think you will try another at some point? Piriabas are one of my dream cats
Not for a while. I find the Brachyplatystoma are too skittish and too much all built for flight. They don't mix well with my brutes (hemibagrus) who are all built for power and to stand and fight.
Even at just 17" that fila was all mussel and all acceleration, just no stopping ability!
The hemibagrus better fit the pond with red tail, giraffes, etc. More personable and willing to hand feed too.
Even at just 17" that fila was all mussel and all acceleration, just no stopping ability!
The hemibagrus better fit the pond with red tail, giraffes, etc. More personable and willing to hand feed too.
This sucks. I know how it hits you below the belt firsthand. Sorry.
It's like it was happening here, Dave. Deja vu in the tenth power. That's the game we play with not enough tanks and gambling with comming fish, which with the Brachies, like you said and I concur from 1st hand experience, is usually deadly unless they are the biggest and the baddest in a tank.
If you read my vulture thread, you'd see all the same. If a tank mate is stressed and afraid, the vultures make it a personal responsibility to find, pursue, and dismantle that wretch of a tank mate: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...t-6-pack-14-20-2-year-old-in-4500-gal.680573/
Post #71 tells a story of a death of juruense by stress, similar to Dave's piraiba's: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/getting-my-jurs-off-live-guppies.514580/page-8
It's like it was happening here, Dave. Deja vu in the tenth power. That's the game we play with not enough tanks and gambling with comming fish, which with the Brachies, like you said and I concur from 1st hand experience, is usually deadly unless they are the biggest and the baddest in a tank.
If you read my vulture thread, you'd see all the same. If a tank mate is stressed and afraid, the vultures make it a personal responsibility to find, pursue, and dismantle that wretch of a tank mate: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...t-6-pack-14-20-2-year-old-in-4500-gal.680573/
Post #71 tells a story of a death of juruense by stress, similar to Dave's piraiba's: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/getting-my-jurs-off-live-guppies.514580/page-8
