catfish in hiding for 7 years

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I believe your story. After a year of not seeing my spotted Raphael in my 180 grow out, I spotted him in my 450! He must of moved with some wood I was soaking in the 180 to get the tannest (spell) out of the wood. I see him maybe every other month now lol.

I bet you have some kind of Raphael cat :D
 
peewee;4391036; said:
you haven't cleaned your tank thoroughly in 7 years.

Can you define "thoroughly" ?????

The days of putting all the fish in a bucket and taking the tank out side and hosing it down in the back yard are over.

Low stress cleaning is key for monster fish keeping. A friend on mine had his black aro panic jump into the cover and killed it's self during gravel vacuuming and syphoning water out of his tank.
 
I can't remember what fish I bought last year, let alone in 2003.
 
thant happend to me when i moved some fish into a 10gal, i had an upside down catfish and i couldnt find it so i just put all the fish in a 10gal and i also moved the decor in the 10 and like 3 weeks after i moved the fish i finally found the catfish swimmin around. i was pretty suprised since it was such a small tank for him to hide in
 
I lost a syno cat for almost a year. The only way I found him was one night I had the video camera on night vision because some fish were being picked on. I turned all the lights off even the night lights and sure enough after like 10 mins of going to bed he came out and swam around looking for food.
 
Dark SSide;4396792; said:
I lost a syno cat for almost a year. The only way I found him was one night I had the video camera on night vision because some fish were being picked on. I turned all the lights off even the night lights and sure enough after like 10 mins of going to bed he came out and swam around looking for food.

LOL That's cool!
 
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