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Joshuakahan
- Sorry for the late response. Been really busy lately with getting that tank, work issues, and Easter coming up. So the catfish you showed there. I don't really like his look... The one's I really am into personally, not just catfish but most fish, are like the one's that when people see them they're like "WHOA!" like the what's that I've never seen a fish that looks like that wow factor you know? They kind of look like what I picture a catfish to look like, lol. I know this is obviously just different opinions, I'm personally just not digging that one's look or size. I'm kind of into the bigger the better too. But not always. Like I have a red shoulder severum sp. hero, and 4 geo sveni growing out, but they have that WOW factor when full grown for me. Their colors and the flowing fins are like, WOW their crazy nice looking.
Jexnell
- They're kinda interesting. They remind me of the tigrinus shape for sure. Just smaller. So here's a thing. I've never had much luck with catfish so I think committing to a large shoal isn't the best idea! Lol. I LOVE shoaling fish, and large shoals, but since I haven't had a catfish I've settled for and been happy with I don't think multiples at the same time is a good idea you know? lol. I do have a striped raph catfish, and he's so boring I'm gonna see if the people that are rehoming my male Jag would like him. He's neat looking, but you literally never see him. I swear he doesn't even come out at night!
thebiggerthebetter
- Hey Viktor! Yep, That's exactly what I'm asking. So my current stock as you can see from my few videos really is active and gets along great, and I love that. I want to go for like a community busy tank, but everyone getting along, large fish, with that "wow" factor. Like "whoa, what is that I've never seen a fish like that" kind of vibe you know? That's one of the reason's the tigrinus looks so cool to me, I think he looks so different and colorful. I think TSN look dope but that's obviously out of the question haha.
Oh my I can't wait to dig threw this list!
- apurensis catfish - he's kinda ugly no? lol reminds me of a giant gourami if it were a catfish. do these guys not get like huge tho?
- wyckii catfish - he's neat. kinda reminds me of a gulper catfish?
- golden dorado group - Whoa! That thing looks way cool. But from a quick google search that looks like it may get too big even for my newest tank?...
- VATF but not possible in FL - Looks neat, but also looks like it'd be kinda nasty which doesn't fit my tank vibes. Plus, you said it's a no in FL.
- bolt catfish - eh, he looks okay. i read aggressive, and smaller in size? those two things combined are kinda opposite of what I like.
- vulture catfish group - still strongly considering this one. I think they look pretty neat.
- datnoides perch group - Is a darnoid "perch" same as like the tiger fish datnoid? I've always wanted one of these and lost interest over time. They seemed pretty exclusive as far as obtaining, then I read they may even be brackish?.... Then I read they're very sensitive to water perimeters and grow very slow, and the more I read the more I became less interested because of those facts. But if those aren't all true, i really, really, really like the look of the datnoid fish. Assuming the "perch" are the same ones I'm thinking of big, yellow with vertical black bars.
- chinese, korean perch - he's definitely unique looking... lol. looks a little too odd for my taste.
- LM bass, SM bass, crappie, bluegill - aren't these like native to our area and ppl fish them for food?....
- pbass group - I could definitely grab some more P bass... I currently just have the 24k spider kelberi whom is awesome. Any specific p bass ud suggest looking at?
- bowfin - those look very cool, and im interested, but are they aggressive like im reading on google?
- walking catfish - oof, lol. nah.
- silver dollar school - I'm still seriously considering this, but I could also totally do this in the 240 with a single show stopper. So I had a large school of SD cause they were one of my all time fav schooling fish for a long time. unfortunately I learned about velvet fish disease when they came to their untimely demise, and it left such a bad taste in my mouth I thought I may never keep SD. ;(
- banded leporinus group - I know of these ones well, and like them! However they're super crazy and active like Tinfoils, and ime they'll ruin my current crews vibes with their crazy active darting around.
- rose mahseer group - they look huge on google? like huge too huge for my tank.
- blue mahseer group - these look pretty neat! they remind me of a tinfoil. cyprinids is tinfoil family right? are they crazy active dart around all the time tho like tinfoils?
- pleco collection - not into em at all.
- afer knife - interesting. Looks kinda neat but I think I read somewhere multiple knife fish can result in issues with them not getting along? Plus he looks neat, but I'm not that into him visually.
- african arowana - Interesting. I expected to see an arowana looking fish top column. have you ever kept? how are they as far as how they act and interact?
- aussie arowana - is this the same as a jardini? I figure if I did get an aro may as well go for a big boy silver no?
- lungfish - are these the fish I see in all those videos on IG from like oriental geographic locations? I don't know anything about these guys. are they just like keeping any other aquarium fish? I mean don't think have other conditions they need cause they like breath air or am I thinking of something else?
- 100 rope fish - I actually kinda like that. But 100, lol. What about a little group. are they schoolers? peaceful?
- 100 pictus catfish - that just sounds like peacock bass, oscar food. lol.
- 50 mascara barb - I really like those!! But again, they sound like p bass, oscar food. they definitely wouldn't not get eaten.
- 100 roseline sharks - those are really nice looking too! Would just end up as food.
Those were some great suggestions. Appreciate that! The rope fish is something I wanna look at more. and I think maybe I need to read about datnoids more. Btw on a totally separate note, when I picked up the new tank I met a couple that bought a 240g from the same guy and upgraded their 180 to 240, and they're gonna take Dahmer and let him have the 180g for himself with either a school of dither fish, or they may try a female jag with! We still have the hotel tho so still may take the trip. We'll see.
Backfromthedead
- I'm not sure I'm convinced yet that I'd like them. Haven't seen many but the vulture cats I see on google look a little plain to me...
Can start from a group of shoaling fish, a group of non shoaling fish, both can be smaller or medium size, nothing over 1ft, or a solo fish, or same size or larger centerpiece with addenda (for color, for movement, for balance, for grace, for interaction, for dithers, for ferocity, for fear, for giggles, for your gf, for your cat-non-fish, etc.).
