New "Albino" Clown Knife

[USMC Sniper]

"between the two" did you allready move the O to the 75gal.? well ive only seen O's in real life at the pet store and at my friends house(he got one for his 55gal. i think it was a tiger O. but it died a few days later cause his bichir killed it i think[long story short his senagal is a brute] but ive never seen one hand feed) lol. i think i would scream if an O jumped out of the and bit my finger. eh, the ck will just take a few weeks to get use to everybody like everyone elses i geuss.

No, the O is going to stay put until the few big guys in the tank start getting larger and everybody starts needing more space.
When he hand-feeds, he grabs whatever he can get in his mouth and kinda does the shark head-shake if he gets your finger. He's actually startled me a few times - I'd have my fingers over the lip of the tank doing something and he'd jump out and bite me thinking I had food for him!
Yeah, I keep hearing people say that it's taken their CKs up to 3 weeks to acclimate and start eating. It REALLY makes me miss my first little guy more now, he ate from the first time I put him in the tank. He'd swim right over with everyone else to get his flake and beef heart...

Congrats on your new ck bro awsome fish!!!

Thanks bro!

 

[tankyou]

Featherfins stay under 10", usually more like 8". Like any good cat, as soon as they smell food, he's out and about.
I can highly recommend them, not aggressive at all but hiders and skittish at first. I thought my small one died or was eaten for the first 3 weeks I had him. Then one day I saw him zipping around and coming out to hit the shrimp pellets.

I'll see if I can get another vid of the CK eating a worm tomorrow morning. It was like watching him wrestle with a live piece of spaghetti.

Question: Are you referring to the cat or the featherfin? Because I had a 7" featherfin and I took that bad boy back to the LFS. He was beautiful and elegant, but had a nasty demeanor and constantly harrassed my much larger royal clown knife. It even took swipes at my oscars. I hated to do it but I decided to let him go...I didn't want to risk any of my fish for one albino featherfin.

 

[USMC Sniper]

Question: Are you referring to the cat or the featherfin? Because I had a 7" featherfin and I took that bad boy back to the LFS. He was beautiful and elegant, but had a nasty demeanor and constantly harrassed my much larger royal clown knife. It even took swipes at my oscars. I hated to do it but I decided to let him go...I didn't want to risk any of my fish for one albino featherfin.

The cat is the featherfin. He hasn't bothered one single occupant in the tank since I've had him, which is probably around 8 months now. In fact, I have 2. The smaller one almost never comes out, but the larger one comes out at least a couple of times a day.
Of course fish within the same species can have different "personalities", so it appears I got a very calm, docile one. I've never had even close to an issue with mine.

Edit: I see now that you're meaning a featherfin as in a Knife fish. Synodontis Eupteris is the Upside-down cat, which is also called a Featherfin cat.

 

[Razman]

The cat is the featherfin. He hasn't bothered one single occupant in the tank since I've had him, which is probably around 8 months now. In fact, I have 2. The smaller one almost never comes out, but the larger one comes out at least a couple of times a day.
Of course fish within the same species can have different "personalities", so it appears I got a very calm, docile one. I've never had even close to an issue with mine.

Edit: I see now that you're meaning a featherfin as in a Knife fish. Synodontis Eupteris is the Upside-down cat, which is also called a Featherfin cat.[/quote]

i feel stupid for not knowing that. wait are you saying that you have a up-side down cat?

 

[USMC Sniper]

The cat is the featherfin. He hasn't bothered one single occupant in the tank since I've had him, which is probably around 8 months now. In fact, I have 2. The smaller one almost never comes out, but the larger one comes out at least a couple of times a day.
Of course fish within the same species can have different "personalities", so it appears I got a very calm, docile one. I've never had even close to an issue with mine.

Edit: I see now that you're meaning a featherfin as in a Knife fish. Synodontis Eupteris is the Upside-down cat, which is also called a Featherfin cat.[/quote]

i feel stupid for not knowing that. wait are you saying that you have a up-side down cat?

Yes, actually 2 of them. http://www.timstropicals.com/Inventory/Catfish/FeatherfinInfo.asp (quick google search)

 

[Razman]

Yes, actually 2 of them. http://www.timstropicals.com/Inventory/Catfish/FeatherfinInfo.asp (quick google search)

thats not an upsidedown catfish

 

[Razman]

heres one of mine sucking on the bottom of my heater

not sure if this is the same one or not cause i have two. (there both much bigger , fatter , and unfortunately paler then they were in those pictures.)

 

[USMC Sniper]

thats not an upsidedown catfish

Yes it is -
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=9559
http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/S/Synodontis_eupterus.asp
http://wetpetz.com/eupterus.htm
http://www.aquariumarticles.com/?c=282
http://fish.mongabay.com/mochocidae.htm

 

[Razman]

Yes it is -
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=9559
http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/S/Synodontis_eupterus.asp
http://wetpetz.com/eupterus.htm
http://www.aquariumarticles.com/?c=282
http://fish.mongabay.com/mochocidae.htm

lies!!! :WTF: the up side down catfish only grow to be 4in. and their scientific name is Synodontis nigriventris http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Synodontis_nigriventris.php

have you ever SEEN you cat go upside down?.

 

[USMC Sniper]

lies!!! :WTF: the up side down catfish only grow to be 4in. and their scientific name is Synodontis nigriventris http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Synodontis_nigriventris.php

have you ever SEEN you cat go upside down?.

LOL, EVERY DAY! The ONLY time I see him rightside up is when he's eating off the bottom. He only resides in his decorative skull or cave upside-down. Just yesterday he was free-swimming around the whole tank UPSIDE-DOWN.

Honestly, that's usually the way I ever see him.