My cute fishy

I've had this fish for 6 years.. caught it in a pond.

He lives in a 46 gallon bowfront aquarium. His substrate is all fossils that I or my mom have found (plus a few bought ones) but mostly stuff from lake michigan.

He's a pig and loves his rosey reds (you can see one in the pic)

You can also see his super cute mole that's on his nose. He's got a big one on his side too that you can see. I loooove my fishy.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...mrwhiskers.jpg

Nice fish. Looks fairly big too, which is always cool. I've been thinking about getting some type of fish again if I move my bp out of the 55-gallon aquarium, and into a sterilite. The question would then be, what combination of fish. Ahh... that means more procrastinating on my thesis doing research for those fishies... where does the time go?

Fish are fun.. but they take up too much room for me to have more now.

Mr Whiskers is about.. oh... 8-9" long now I'd guess.

He's awesome!:)

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Fish are fun.. but they take up too much room for me to have more now.

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Yea, I really love betas but they're not the best aquarium fish due to their aggressive nature. I have kept one with a bottom feeder with no problems at all in the past though.

Bettas are actually great with other fish.. just not another male betta! I've kept bettas with guppies, platys, mollies, and a loach. The betta was getting beat up actually.. he's got a bowl now.

I put in some guppies with one of my betas and he would occasionally chase them around. Never really seemed to try to actually bite them though. I was dumb back then and saw a crayfish I thought i really needed (without reseraching them)... well... i had no guppies left in the tank after he went in there. At least they weren't wasted, he left no scraps behind.

LOL.. I made that mistake with a crayfish once too. It ate the tail off of my black moor goldfish.

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LOL.. I made that mistake with a crayfish once too. It ate the tail off of my black moor goldfish.

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Yea, i actually bought 2 crayfish because i saw one that was missing a claw and thought i'd give him a better home. Little did i know he'd end up in the other guy's stomach after he shed. I saw them all together in the pet store so i thought it was ok... :(

That is awesome! You have no idea how much I lve catfish (next to goldfish, they are my favorite fish.) I wish I could catch something that cool and have it live a long time; we had one we caught last year and it ended up getting eaten by the Oscar who was in the tank; my fault I guess.
Right now I have a Syndontis and a big algae eater named Al G, and a 2 foot pleco. And a raphael cat; forgot him. :)

Oh I forgot; is he preditory? Looks like a feeder in there.. :)

He's EXTREMELY predatory. LOL any other fish you put in there, he either eats, or if it's too big, he kills and guts it for me.

Looks a nice yellow bullhead. Although he should be in a bigger tank.

there are some fish crays can live with happily... but they need to be fish who sleep at the top of the tank and don't give your cray anything to climb up on and eat them! i breed them for a wholesaler... and i have 3 crays living in a 33 gallon tank... they need approx 10 gallons each when they are being housed together... AND you have to make sure you have all the same sex living together... cause the females will kill the male is he isn't in 'breeding form'. they molt into type A and type B - one is for breeding and the other isn't... so if the male in in the wrong form... he's dinner!

my males are housed separately in 5 and 10 gallon tanks... but that's because they are p. alleni and only get 3" at full grown size... so they can tolerate a smaller tank!

but anything with a tail, or slow moving... is dinner for them! some will even eat their pleco tankmates... but just as in any critter... you can get aggressive ones and then non aggressive. we have one who won't eat a fish even if you give it to him dead!!! and others who eat anything they can catch LOL

and plants are a no no with crays as well... since they loooooove to eat them :)

i'm done with crayfish 101 - next week catfish 101 LOL hahahahaha

He's actually a brown bullhead.

He doesn't move around much.. and an 8" fish in a 3' long bowfront tank seems plenty big to me. He spends 80% of the time mushed in the corner under the filter. The other 20% of the time he's either eating or begging for food (he does a dance)

thanks for cray fish 101. i'm pretty sure the max size of mines were 3'' as well (at least that's what the people at the exotic pet store told me). as far as them climbing the plants, i would occasionally buy feeder fish for him, and i definitely saw hime on more than one occasion sitting on top of the plastic plant pretending to be a statue with his claw open... waiting patiently... needless to say, he was lonely in the 10 gallon tank.

catfish are really interesting so i'll be looking forward to catfish 101. =)