Dito on the euros, mine would go at it badly even at ~16" in a big well structured pond.
Silurus Merdionalis thread
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haha yeah that was my experience when i ordered my trio from predatory. Thank gosh they were not packaged all together as the ripped each other up. if i do buy another one, he'll be with no one. Probably just in a pond i am going to build. Glanis in the wild actually spend time together if that makes sense, but chinese wels apparently are more solitary.Idk if they're behaviourally like Wels but if they are I'd be very careful keeping more than one
yes i agree, but when placed with larger fish that do not resemble them, like mahseer or arowana they play a lil nicer, granted OFR has them in huge tanks with lotds of moving fish , maybe thats why ohio fish rescue has had luck with them. I wanna try out some cold water dithers i might work just hopefully
Ive tried in the same size tanks lol… 450, 500 and a 650. At about 12” mine grabbed 16-18” clown knives mid body and swam around with them haha. Ridiculous. Something faster may work i agree… not sure during lights out tho.
Yeah i agree. Ill try maybe in my 1000 cold water pond. Wish me luck.
Continuing my silurus threads, i will be adding an Indian wels cat from wes. Hopefully this will be my dorm pet as they dont get huge.
Continuing my silurus threads, i will be adding an Indian wels cat from wes. Hopefully this will be my dorm pet as they dont get huge.
Finally moved him to gallery aka fancy word for my unfinished garage with a plethora of fish tanks. Tank is very cloudy and it’s clearing up. It’s a 40 gallon. He’s a lot bigger than I ever thought he was. I tried to feed him and he wasn’t interested. Hopefully he’s doing the same thing he did last time I moved him.
So what is the expectation regarding temperatures for this fish's tank? It sounds as though it won't be heated to typical "tropical" temperatures, but how warm or how cold do you expect it to work out best?
And what's with the tail fin on these things? Even the semi-leucistic one shown above appears as though the caudal fin is a bit damaged or eroded or...?
The more I read this thread and other stuff I can find about meridionalis, the more interested I am becoming. I have my 360-gallon sitting empty in the basement right now; it was slated for housing a Burbot until I discovered that was illegal...so now I'm up in the air. My wife wants Goldfish (!), but I am now musing the possibility of either a Goonch or a meridionalis. Both are pretty tough to get up here...I've never even seen a meridionalis offered at all, and only one or two Goonch ever. I plan on keeping this as a cool/temperate tank, so both those species seem to have potential for me.
Yeah, yeah, I know...plenty of folks are running RO units and otherwise jumping through complicated and expensive hoops to create water because they simply must have a given species of fish...and I am too cheap and too lazy to drop a heater into a tank...
I showed my wife the pic of that cool Walking Dead meridionalis that @wednesday13 posted above, and her reaction was "If you think you are doing another big tank with another big-ass catfish sleeping on the bottom..." Any married man understands the implied threat when the sentence trails off like that.
And what's with the tail fin on these things? Even the semi-leucistic one shown above appears as though the caudal fin is a bit damaged or eroded or...?
The more I read this thread and other stuff I can find about meridionalis, the more interested I am becoming. I have my 360-gallon sitting empty in the basement right now; it was slated for housing a Burbot until I discovered that was illegal...so now I'm up in the air. My wife wants Goldfish (!), but I am now musing the possibility of either a Goonch or a meridionalis. Both are pretty tough to get up here...I've never even seen a meridionalis offered at all, and only one or two Goonch ever. I plan on keeping this as a cool/temperate tank, so both those species seem to have potential for me.
Yeah, yeah, I know...plenty of folks are running RO units and otherwise jumping through complicated and expensive hoops to create water because they simply must have a given species of fish...and I am too cheap and too lazy to drop a heater into a tank...
I showed my wife the pic of that cool Walking Dead meridionalis that @wednesday13 posted above, and her reaction was "If you think you are doing another big tank with another big-ass catfish sleeping on the bottom..." Any married man understands the implied threat when the sentence trails off like that.
It feels as though it is about low 70’s. I think I’ll let the New Jersey weather dictate how hot or cold it gets. I have a heater but it doesn’t seem to be having an affect on the water temp at all. These fish are susceptible to fin/tail rot. A lot of them get it apparently. Mine seems fine from his case, but I’m gonna add some Indian almond leaves but only like 3. I don’t believe in RO water unless breeding certain fish like discus. I think it’s not practical to make 50 gallons of water ur wasting another 200 some. But that’s just my personal opinion. I use South jersey hose water for all my tanks. Wallago, bichir, Mbuna, pacu, Dovii, indian wels, Chinese wels… etc. they all acclimate. I just keep driftwood and/or crushed coral depending on what I want the ph to hold. It’s all trial and error. Currently working on stands for garage as the goal now is to start a small store/import business. In the pic below, please excuse water and sand on wels, as I was in a rush uerstday and poured sand in like an idiot. I changed water, and added sponge filter from his old tankSo what is the expectation regarding temperatures for this fish's tank? It sounds as though it won't be heated to typical "tropical" temperatures, but how warm or how cold do you expect it to work out best?
And what's with the tail fin on these things? Even the semi-leucistic one shown above appears as though the caudal fin is a bit damaged or eroded or...?
The more I read this thread and other stuff I can find about meridionalis, the more interested I am becoming. I have my 360-gallon sitting empty in the basement right now; it was slated for housing a Burbot until I discovered that was illegal...so now I'm up in the air. My wife wants Goldfish (!), but I am now musing the possibility of either a Goonch or a meridionalis. Both are pretty tough to get up here...I've never even seen a meridionalis offered at all, and only one or two Goonch ever. I plan on keeping this as a cool/temperate tank, so both those species seem to have potential for me.
Yeah, yeah, I know...plenty of folks are running RO units and otherwise jumping through complicated and expensive hoops to create water because they simply must have a given species of fish...and I am too cheap and too lazy to drop a heater into a tank...
I showed my wife the pic of that cool Walking Dead meridionalis that @wednesday13 posted above, and her reaction was "If you think you are doing another big tank with another big-ass catfish sleeping on the bottom..." Any married man understands the implied threat when the sentence trails off like that.
Day 2, he must be fasting, no interest in cut up silversides or shrimp. I’m gonna add some more filtration.
He’s not really moving all too much. He’ll prob come around in a few days.
Here he is again
