Banjo Cats

[Oddball]

okay its like this.....i have several tanks and each one i try to introduce banjos and they all turn up dead, so this time i try banjos from different stocks (case the last lot were ill) it all seems to be going fine then a week later theyre dead................HELP? whats wrong anything i need specially or should i give up while im ahead?

 

[rain-]

What are the water parametres? Substrate? Temperature? It would also help to know how much do you change water per week and do you vacuum the bottom at the same time. Tankmates?

How do they die? Are they just laying on top of the substrate?

This is what they need: Bunocephalus sp, Amazon, 10-12cm, 21-27°C, pH 6-7, 5-15dH

 

[CFC]

Could be starvation, banjo catfish are very slow to feed and if kept with fish that eat all the food before they know its there they will starve.

Are you 100% sure they are dead? My banjo cats look dead most of the time and you can even pick them up without them moving, the only way i know theyre not dead is that they dont rot

 

[Oddball]

they be dead white and milky and kinda smell...............substrate is small fine gravel decor is lots of mopani wood. tank paramaeters are 6.5pH nitrate is 10ish nitrite and ammonia is nil hardness is 4 weekly water change of 15 - 20% diet is blood worms. tank mates are brochis splendens and clown loach for the botttom and a young tyre track (3 inch) and a few gourmis, 2 firemouths and a pair of curveys and two butterflys in 50gals.

 

[CFC]

From the tankmates my guess would be starvation, cichlids and other catfish are great at getting every last scrap of food long before the banjo would even think of moving. Good tankmates for banjo cats are fish like south american leaf fish, farowellas and surface dwelling predators like pike characins and needle fish which wont affect the banjos feeding habbits.

 

[AW0L]

feed at night. i have a bunch of these things.

 

[Oddball]

Yay i now know what to house with my leaf fish thanks CFC owe ya one

 

[Oddball]

Oh wow i managed to find a live banjo in the mopani tank whoo! erm sorry thought you might like to know