New Bagarius yarrelli and tigrinus

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Very nice fish. Thank's for sharing. Can you post any pic's of the surface, curious to see how you mounted your powerheads.
 
doubledragon;3644651;3644651 said:
Very nice fish. Thank's for sharing. Can you post any pic's of the surface, curious to see how you mounted your powerheads.
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Here's a super bad photo of my setup...if you can see past the poor focusing and inaccurate exposure, you can see its a Maxi-jet 1200 powerhead attached with the supplied sucton cups near the surface and with the airline turned to deliver the maximum amount of air into the water stream (which is aimed at the surface).....I have another 1200 on the opposite side of the tank and the two water streams meet at the middle of the 75 gallon tank, creating a big disturbance at the surface, increasing the dissolved oxygen content. The filtration is a Fluval 405, with the exit hose also aimed generally toward the surface. The yarrelli, as well as the tank's only other occupant, a tigrinus cat, come from highly oxygenated, turbulant, relatively cold waters, and this setup hopefully duplicates that environment somewhat. Hope this helps.

Maxi-jet 1200 surface pic.jpg
 
pbass lover;3642671;3642671 said:
Nice fish that yarelli kind of looks like a rutilus but i'm no expert
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That's interesting....it was sold as a yarrelli, but that's not always a sure thing, even from a reputable dealer. Other than having the thing on a dissecting table next to a definite yarrelli, any idea of obvious distinguishing characteristics between the two species? I can probably take some higher resolution photos of the specimen from different angles if that would help. Thanks for the comment!
 
troutking;3641402;3641402 said:
Nice! wat kind of sand is that?
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Not sure...I'll try to find out next time I am in the LFS that sold the sand to me....I think it just said something generic like "aquarium sand" on it....its very fine, and I put it on top of some blasting sand gravel on the bottom.
 
I don't no how to distinguish them exactly but it just seems that from looking at planet catfish and other places that have pics that the rutilus is a bit more flat and the yarelli are a bit more high backed. Or you can grow them out to the max as rutilus are a bit smaller
 
Nice cats,loving the tig.ive gotta get myself one they are stunning!!!
Saw one for sale yesterday,3" max and was£145 english pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers steve
 
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