Luckycatfish
New Member
Hi, been into fish ever since at school in the sixties. Tanks then we're frames , thick glass and putty! Not really had many tanks since then. When I retired in 2016, I gave away to our next door flat neighbour our two very noisy budgies, who hated the TV or movies and would squack all the way through!!! On my birthday that year went along to my local Wigan centre called Pier aquatics. So I had delivered a large tank with top lid filter and three boxes for bio and two blocks of sponges.
Lost some interest when all my Halloween platies all passed on over two years, seem to be prone to swimming and sinking. Bought nitrate kit all good. Changed to a more powerfu eheim pump with output control. Restocked with 10 rasbora Harlequins, and already had three corydorus catfish. Added to that recently 8 Serpia Tetras. This high Hugo Kamishi bow front tank has its problems algae on bow glass is a pain. But trying to get replacement block sponges to replace the olds ones has been impossible to find 7cm x7cm.
Anyway here I am, and what got my interest back is I became a daddy for the first time of a none live breeding fish. Just last month I saw a catfish that I thought must be sick, as it had shrunk. But another couple of days went by. When all my three catfish sailed along the sand. 1 2 3 err 4!....... I said to my wife omg my three catfish has had a baby, but he was already an inch and a bit. I can only think he hid in the mass of a large bushy crytocorne under a wood root I bought in. He's doing well, but I'm told it was rare to raise one in a community tank. Hence we named him "Lucky" hence my nickname. So putting in more work on tank, I love the old large hard back books we had in the seventies. But very hard to find recently. So I joined here to share stuff and other matters one being as a conservationist I'm very worried about tropical fish from the Anazon basin due to Bolosonaro lust for burning the great wonder of the world.
Only a small fraction of tropical fish has been successfully bred in captivity, meaning collectors still have to fishing for a lot of fish to stock aquatic centres... Thanks for reading..................................................update: Photo on my old camera of "Lucky". sorry for not being sharp, bowed screen and algae spots make it look awful!!. Lucky is chilling next to an adult so you can see hes much smaller
Lost some interest when all my Halloween platies all passed on over two years, seem to be prone to swimming and sinking. Bought nitrate kit all good. Changed to a more powerfu eheim pump with output control. Restocked with 10 rasbora Harlequins, and already had three corydorus catfish. Added to that recently 8 Serpia Tetras. This high Hugo Kamishi bow front tank has its problems algae on bow glass is a pain. But trying to get replacement block sponges to replace the olds ones has been impossible to find 7cm x7cm.
Anyway here I am, and what got my interest back is I became a daddy for the first time of a none live breeding fish. Just last month I saw a catfish that I thought must be sick, as it had shrunk. But another couple of days went by. When all my three catfish sailed along the sand. 1 2 3 err 4!....... I said to my wife omg my three catfish has had a baby, but he was already an inch and a bit. I can only think he hid in the mass of a large bushy crytocorne under a wood root I bought in. He's doing well, but I'm told it was rare to raise one in a community tank. Hence we named him "Lucky" hence my nickname. So putting in more work on tank, I love the old large hard back books we had in the seventies. But very hard to find recently. So I joined here to share stuff and other matters one being as a conservationist I'm very worried about tropical fish from the Anazon basin due to Bolosonaro lust for burning the great wonder of the world.
Only a small fraction of tropical fish has been successfully bred in captivity, meaning collectors still have to fishing for a lot of fish to stock aquatic centres... Thanks for reading..................................................update: Photo on my old camera of "Lucky". sorry for not being sharp, bowed screen and algae spots make it look awful!!. Lucky is chilling next to an adult so you can see hes much smaller
Last edited:
