List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
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- Green Spotted Puffer
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
It has the face of a catfish and body of a leopard Pleco but it has a flat head and beak the gills sit behind the side fins I will see if I can't get a pic
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
Fahakas are like dogs! They come up to you and say hi! Or they're just looking for food!
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
More common name is a Tiger shovelnose catfish.
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- suvattii2012
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
Pufferpunk wrote:More common name is a Tiger shovelnose catfish.
Pufferpunk i notice you have a suvattii in your list, What is it's main diet? Do you feed fish or crabs? How big is he?
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
great thread. LFS's need to include more info on every specimen, not just the little smilie faces and such....
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
Speaking of Red Tailed Catfish
You better be prepared to have a nice big pond!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGx1eeT-sjg
You better be prepared to have a nice big pond!
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
That is another fish which does not belong in hobby tanks.
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
The owner of that pond has a few of these.. he imports North American monster fish to Thailand and they get HUGE due to the warmer weather. I can't remember how many ponds he has but I think it was 6 on each property and owning 2 properties. Both properties are several acres large.
http://www.fishing-in-thailand.com/index.html
I think that is the guy I went with a while back. He has changed the site a bit but the photos are the same. He is a guide and can take you to the "ponds" if you want to do some monster fishing. When I was there I got to see 3 Arapaima in their QT tanks waiting to be released. At that time they were only about 4 feet.
http://www.fishing-in-thailand.com/index.html
I think that is the guy I went with a while back. He has changed the site a bit but the photos are the same. He is a guide and can take you to the "ponds" if you want to do some monster fishing. When I was there I got to see 3 Arapaima in their QT tanks waiting to be released. At that time they were only about 4 feet.
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- Puffer Fry
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
o wow, i feel bad, iv kept 10 of the 11 the only one i havent is the no. 6 but thats because its illegal. never had a single problem or death with any of them
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
#600 the dragon goby. Its practically blind and is much a filter feeder. If the filter feeding never gets established some tlc and close hand to baster feeding may be in order. Pretty fish but not for a beginner as i found out.
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C valentini
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
And it's not a FW fish, either.
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
It is if you're a noob and you belive the people at the pet stores are honest animal loving do-gooders and they say it is. Which most that do carry them will. Brackish isnt too popular of a word in the mainstream as i found out.Pufferpunk wrote:And it's not a FW fish, either.
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
IMHO & IME a dragon goby is never a novice fish. Keeping one in FW is not at all good for the fish.
The world has too many poor to awful pet stores.
The world has too many poor to awful pet stores.
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Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
Neon Tetras. They often die and they will also pick on if not kill other community fish.
Re: List of freshwater fishes to avoid for beginners
Add clown knives(size), and stingrays(size,diet,dangerous).