Keeping track of Hendre's tanks

@A new day has inspired me to keep track of my tanks a bit, so will use this thread to do so.

My current tanks:
The scape - 60l - White cloud minnows, cherry shrimp, some amanos and a nerite snail
Catfish corner - 60l - Lolita the female betta, some kuhlis and my Duranoglanis catfish
The big tank - 250l- Muppet the bichir, an ellioti cichlid and 5 electric blue acara

 

Pics will be coming! I am busy cleaning out some algae, preparing the plants you gave me and so on

 

Some pics from September

 

Nice..we love pics Those Duranoglanis catfish are beauties, how big do they get and how long have you had them?

 

About as big as that, 3-5cm. Mine may be a bit smaller as I don't feed my fish tonnes and tonnes. Had them about 2 years now? I am trying to induce spawning again. They go absolutely HAM for food, gave them some daphnia now and they are cruising like little sharks.

 

That is sooo cool, I have never seen them for sale...I tried to google them, not much info on them...what other name are they known by and Where are they from?

 

Formerly Tatia or Centromochlus perugaie, or oil catfish. I got mine through an importer at R120 each...

 

The tank loos beautiful and i have to agree, those cats are gorgeous

@Hendre, title corrected as requested

 

I just love your catfish! Wow your planted tank really had lush growth since September. Looking forward to the pics! I guess I will have to share pics of my setup soon as well

 

Took some quick photos

 

I love the second one. The tangled wood looks so cool.

 

Thanks! I pretty much leave that one alone, did kill all my hornwort by using a strong peroxide bath for some algae it seems. The damn algae is still alive too haha

 

I feel your pain. I have just decided to indulge algae in my planning from now on. If you cant beat them, assimilate them. I have found that if you make a monkey wear enough golden rings eventually you can no longer tell it's a monkey. My water is not municipal supply but from a spring so it is a constant battle (war).

 

Hoping to see some eggs very soon!

 

Thank you! If they lay now I will have to find a holiday babysitter, luckily the fry take well to powdered foods and I don't have to struggle with artemia

 

@Hendre Very cool!

I do, however, find it a little strange that you are a moderator on MFK and offer such compelling advice on owning monster tanks when you yourself don't own or have really ever owned a monster tank.

No offense... #justsaying

 

Small tank, big tank, similar deal but with bigger fish and bigger parts. I mostly dish advice for Polypterus, a genus I'm rather intimate with knowledge wise. Even then I'm not afraid to tag in some of the proper experts wherever. 5 years of posting, countless hours of research and absorbing, and some fish mentorship, puts me in a position where I can help with a fair deal of stuff