Anybody have experience with Megalodoras Uranoscopus

[divemaster99]

Hahaha, oh well forget that part about the medium and regular sizes. This is definitely where it's coming from but I feel bad buying from a supplier that says an irwini only gets this size !
http://www.segrestfarms.com/index.c...SH-RAPHAEL-IRWINS-MED&Megalodoras-irwini.html
So I guess I don't have to worry about medium being very big. Still can't stop laughing at the info they give you about them!

 

[divemaster99]

That information does make me skeptical I'm getting a Irwini though. I mean they said 2" max, it's a bagrid, and collected from Sumatra? Are they on something or is this a different fish?

 

[krichardson]

Yeah,the bagrid,Sumatra stuff is funny.

 

[divemaster99]

Yeah,the bagrid,Sumatra stuff is funny.

So you think it is an irwini not a mislabeled dwarf bagrid or the like?

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

The picture is right. The info looks like a cut and paste error or forgot to edit error, is all. Irwinies are well described on a number of reputable sites.

 

[snake8myelbo]

I say ask for the smallest they can get? My 2 are about 10" after 1 year.

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[divemaster99]

I made a new thread about care for these fish
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?572234-Questions-on-Irwini-Catfish-Care

 

[Monstrous]

Have 1 at the moment and all I can say about my specimen is that I love its menacing-looking spikes by the side which my striped raphael couldn't match, even though they are at the same size atm. I just love how this guy come out of its hole during feeding time, twitching its whiskers to find its food, and all this time he haven't really bothered about its smaller relatives and tankmates< it have chosen to stay in the cave where a spotted raphael and a juvenile niger cat reside>

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

...Just remember guys I have someone to give it to or could always sell it on the MFK marketplace...

It is hard to overestimate the wisdom and, in the end, the humanity of the principle "Home first, fish second" as it appears that 99%+ of keepers fail to realize their "upgrade" plans. I got burnt by this more times than I conveniently care to remember: accommodation first, fish second... accommodation first, fish second... and one must too remember the utter importance of a QT tank.

As for "I can always sell it later or trade it in to an LFS"... many do it, actually great many do it but it appears that most serious keepers think this is a bad conscience. People don't buy mammals while thinking like that, puppies or kittens. Is fish a sub-standard pet?

Sure, things happen and pets become homeless or sheltered. One thing when it occurs against someone's plans and will and another when things like that are "in the plan".