I've finally found a juruense that I like, and upon which I am going to attempt my color-up experiment, based on water quality and dietary supplementation.
Here's the fish in question-
As you can probably tell, that's a screencap from a low resolution video. More and better pictures to follow when it gets here.
Now it's no secret that since moving to Florida, I can't keep these guys alive. My theory is that this is due to my liquid rock well water out of the Floridan Aquifer, which is quite literally off of the charts In hardness. That's the only meaningful difference between them dying for me now and my prior success in Missouri keeping them for years on treated city water. Recognizing this, I have purchased a 550 gallon tank for the long term care of a juruense, and I've committed to having a ro/di drip on that tank to maintain flawless water quality.
Obviously, a 550 is impractical for a 4" catfish. For the time being, it will be housed in a 30 gallon grow out tank, filtered by an ac110 (they like flow after all) and media from the pond of my goonch catfish, 3D the Defiler, the Lord of Death. I am unfortunately still quite a way away from having the 550 running, as I want to both scape it first and because I've yet to figure out how (or really even try) to get this 1000 pound monstrosity onto the stand.
But that's down the road a ways still.
For the time being, I'm going to focus first on making sure the new juruense is stable, then on getting it to eat. I'm looking forward to routinely updating this thread. Juruense are a pet project of mine, and I've been looking forward to attempting this for years.
Here's the fish in question-
As you can probably tell, that's a screencap from a low resolution video. More and better pictures to follow when it gets here.
Now it's no secret that since moving to Florida, I can't keep these guys alive. My theory is that this is due to my liquid rock well water out of the Floridan Aquifer, which is quite literally off of the charts In hardness. That's the only meaningful difference between them dying for me now and my prior success in Missouri keeping them for years on treated city water. Recognizing this, I have purchased a 550 gallon tank for the long term care of a juruense, and I've committed to having a ro/di drip on that tank to maintain flawless water quality.
Obviously, a 550 is impractical for a 4" catfish. For the time being, it will be housed in a 30 gallon grow out tank, filtered by an ac110 (they like flow after all) and media from the pond of my goonch catfish, 3D the Defiler, the Lord of Death. I am unfortunately still quite a way away from having the 550 running, as I want to both scape it first and because I've yet to figure out how (or really even try) to get this 1000 pound monstrosity onto the stand.
But that's down the road a ways still.
For the time being, I'm going to focus first on making sure the new juruense is stable, then on getting it to eat. I'm looking forward to routinely updating this thread. Juruense are a pet project of mine, and I've been looking forward to attempting this for years.
