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can someone id the fish, i know it as an upsidedown plec lol. i know the top fish is a pictus cat



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Great pics! I'm fairly amazed at your tank set up. Big fish, crabs, and shrimp.

I should think about that too for my 40.

Fish that crabs/predatory shrimp won't bother.... hmmmmm.... and then turn my 10 to community instead....

Interesting....

Gankutsuou said:

Great pics! I'm fairly amazed at your tank set up. Big fish, crabs, and shrimp.

I should think about that too for my 40.

Fish that crabs/predatory shrimp won't bother.... hmmmmm.... and then turn my 10 to community instead....

Interesting....

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seems im breaking all the rules, but the only one i wish to correct is the "brackish" rule, sadly my crabs are not true freshwater. cant help thinking that there must be some, "freshwater" crab. my guess is that if there are they will be "coldwater". till i sort my "brackish" tank. i will continue to enjoy the sight of all my crew, living, and getting on! The sight of a Plec carrying off a rock shrimp, only to drop it and just sit on the bottom together afterwards, just has to be seen. seeing a pygmy gurami bullying a crab to get it to move is amasing.I guess the personality of the tank and its fish is as varied as the fish and the people who keep them .

can someone id the fish, i know it as an upsidedown plec

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Upside Down Catfish, Synodontis petricola.

-Lynden

Lynden said:

can someone id the fish, i know it as an upsidedown plec

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Upside Down Catfish, Synodontis petricola.

-Lynden

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I can confirm it is definitely not this fish,

The fish in question is from the family Mochokidae, but it is not Synodontis petricola. They attain a much smaller size, and are a different colour. Further to this, the common "upsidedown catfish" isn't Synodontis petricola, but in fact Synodontis nigirventris, which achieves a size of around 4", and again, that fish looks larger than that to me. If it is less than that, there is a possibility it could be, but I'm doubtful from that photograph.

It is a Synodontis of some sort, but a definitive ID from that photo is unlikely, even more so due to the market being flooded with Czech bred hybrids.

There are freshwater crabs. They get big. I saw a malawi crab in my LFS far away. In the phillipines I have caught freshwater crabs.

Crabs also need a way to get out of the water, even "aquatic" crabs. A piece of driftwood or something they can climb and perch on that's above the water line. But be careful, they can climb cords and escape through the smallest holes!

Lynden said:

can someone id the fish, i know it as an upsidedown plec

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Upside Down Catfish, Synodontis petricola.

-Lynden

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Synodontis nigriventris is the fish thanks for the input though

Boxermom said:

Crabs also need a way to get out of the water, even "aquatic" crabs. A piece of driftwood or something they can climb and perch on that's above the water line. But be careful, they can climb cords and escape through the smallest holes!

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yep the crabs have a walk way from the top of the heater, or crab ladder, to the central cross-spar, a tray with some sand and a couple of little rocks, aint had them long enough for them to feed from my hand, but it will come.