Edit 2- I'm re-appropriating this thread for continued documentation of my goonch catfishes. Go here for the 2018 continuation:
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/8016077/
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EDIT- As it has become apparent to me that I got the ID of this fish WAY wrong, I'm updating this original post. As it turns out, this fish is in fact Bagarius rutilus as Estarego8 and I originally supposed. In fact, it is becoming apparent that ALL dwarf goonches may in fact be young rutilus. For reasons expounded on in my difficulty to ID your goonch thread, I'm beginning to suspect that there is a decent chance that there might not even be a proper dwarf goonch species. Guess I shouldn't have doubted myself lol. Also, it's worth noting that I arbitrarily decided that this fish is a female and that her name is Ardat Lili, or Dottie for short. The theory behind that name was that since she was "she" and a devil catfish, she should have the name of a demon. Since at the time of her naming I thought she was a dwarf, I gave her the name of a minor demon, in this case a female who was Lilith's handmaiden.
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Well wasn't this a surprise! I came home to find a giant box on my doorstep with a goonch in it!
I wasn't expecting it and it reminded me of an orphan abandoned on your steps lol
I've been working a deal with MFK member cgibby for quite some time for this fish. I've had a rough couple of days and haven't been checking the forum or my email very often. I went out to do some errands today and came home to this guy on my porch. Collin emailed me to let me know it was on its way, I just didn't see the email lol.
Thanks man!
This was a very pleasant surprise. After my old trusty pickup truck gave up the ghost in the middle of a snowstorm two days ago which left me and my two month old sitting in the cold and which also caused me to have to throw enormous amounts of money at the problem (buying a new truck), this was a very nice way to wrap up the past few days!
The goonch arrived healthy and in good shape. It is one of the Jeff Rapps Thai goonches from a few months back. After being able to put my hands on the fish and really examine it, I'm fairly certain that the fish is in fact a dwarf goonch. There's something thats lost when you look at pictures as opposed to actually examining the fish. I'm calling mine a dwarf goonch. If it ends up getting huge that will prove me wrong, but I don't expect that to happen.
Since I feel it's an adult dwarf goonch, I don't expect it'll have much growing to do in his growout thread lol.
I first floated the fish for about 15 minutes to equalize the temperature in his bag to that of the tank. Once the water was the same, I took the bag out of the tank, put it back in the box and pulled the fish out. Yes, I grabbed it and examined it. Based on the morphology of the head, the anal fin and the caudal peduncle and caudal fin, I'm certain this fish is Roberts' dwarf goonch. What strikes me as odd is that even though this is a dwarf, it has yellowish orange fins. After a cursorial examination, I held it in the tank in front of the flow from my AC110. After about 15 seconds of this, it calmly swam off.
I really need to decide if I'm going to use a masculine or feminine gender specific pronoun for this fish (him or her). I also need a name for it. :/
When it went into the tank, it first just sat on the bottom facing away from the current. As you'd expect, this didn't work out well for it so it swam off to find a good hidey-hole. In its exploration, it found my Brachyplatystoma juruense, Ginger. Ginger did NOT like it at first and chased it all over the tank. It was kinda funny. After a while, Ginger realized that it was OK and not a threat and didn't bother it anymore. After a half hour, they were 'nuggling. D'aww.
Anyhoo, on to the pics:
Is that a goonch I see?
It is! It is! *SQUEEE*
Acclimatizing
Still acclimatizing
Ginger says "what'choo doin' in my tank, you punk ass catfish?!"
"Thats right, hide in that log!"
"Ya know, you're actually kinda cute!"
"C'mere you"
BFFs <3
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/8016077/
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EDIT- As it has become apparent to me that I got the ID of this fish WAY wrong, I'm updating this original post. As it turns out, this fish is in fact Bagarius rutilus as Estarego8 and I originally supposed. In fact, it is becoming apparent that ALL dwarf goonches may in fact be young rutilus. For reasons expounded on in my difficulty to ID your goonch thread, I'm beginning to suspect that there is a decent chance that there might not even be a proper dwarf goonch species. Guess I shouldn't have doubted myself lol. Also, it's worth noting that I arbitrarily decided that this fish is a female and that her name is Ardat Lili, or Dottie for short. The theory behind that name was that since she was "she" and a devil catfish, she should have the name of a demon. Since at the time of her naming I thought she was a dwarf, I gave her the name of a minor demon, in this case a female who was Lilith's handmaiden.
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Well wasn't this a surprise! I came home to find a giant box on my doorstep with a goonch in it!
I wasn't expecting it and it reminded me of an orphan abandoned on your steps lolI've been working a deal with MFK member cgibby for quite some time for this fish. I've had a rough couple of days and haven't been checking the forum or my email very often. I went out to do some errands today and came home to this guy on my porch. Collin emailed me to let me know it was on its way, I just didn't see the email lol.
Thanks man!
This was a very pleasant surprise. After my old trusty pickup truck gave up the ghost in the middle of a snowstorm two days ago which left me and my two month old sitting in the cold and which also caused me to have to throw enormous amounts of money at the problem (buying a new truck), this was a very nice way to wrap up the past few days!
The goonch arrived healthy and in good shape. It is one of the Jeff Rapps Thai goonches from a few months back. After being able to put my hands on the fish and really examine it, I'm fairly certain that the fish is in fact a dwarf goonch. There's something thats lost when you look at pictures as opposed to actually examining the fish. I'm calling mine a dwarf goonch. If it ends up getting huge that will prove me wrong, but I don't expect that to happen.
Since I feel it's an adult dwarf goonch, I don't expect it'll have much growing to do in his growout thread lol.
I first floated the fish for about 15 minutes to equalize the temperature in his bag to that of the tank. Once the water was the same, I took the bag out of the tank, put it back in the box and pulled the fish out. Yes, I grabbed it and examined it. Based on the morphology of the head, the anal fin and the caudal peduncle and caudal fin, I'm certain this fish is Roberts' dwarf goonch. What strikes me as odd is that even though this is a dwarf, it has yellowish orange fins. After a cursorial examination, I held it in the tank in front of the flow from my AC110. After about 15 seconds of this, it calmly swam off.
I really need to decide if I'm going to use a masculine or feminine gender specific pronoun for this fish (him or her). I also need a name for it. :/
When it went into the tank, it first just sat on the bottom facing away from the current. As you'd expect, this didn't work out well for it so it swam off to find a good hidey-hole. In its exploration, it found my Brachyplatystoma juruense, Ginger. Ginger did NOT like it at first and chased it all over the tank. It was kinda funny. After a while, Ginger realized that it was OK and not a threat and didn't bother it anymore. After a half hour, they were 'nuggling. D'aww.
Anyhoo, on to the pics:
Is that a goonch I see?
It is! It is! *SQUEEE*
Acclimatizing
Still acclimatizing
Ginger says "what'choo doin' in my tank, you punk ass catfish?!"
"Thats right, hide in that log!"
"Ya know, you're actually kinda cute!"
"C'mere you
"BFFs <3
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and that juru....WOW
It worked at least!