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my latest addition to my tank is a banjo catfish which i bought on tuesday, and it wasn't until last night (thursday) that i had my first sighting of it in my tank i fed my cories and candy stripe peckoltia some flakes after lights out, and after waiting REALLY still in front of the tank for 15minutes (my was hurtin by then~!) hahahah, the banjo finally ventured out carefully hahahhahaha it was so awesome its like seeing a baby take its first steps and it was good too, coz it stayed in the open for abt 1/2hr just gorging on any available flakes, and even snatching from cories and my striped loaches lol was so cute and then my candy plec joined the feeding frenzy, so i just added an extra tablet for it to munch on...lol and it chased away any cories or loaches attempting to steal its beloved meal from it~! lol....altho this thread doesn't involve any questions or concerns...i juzz thought i'd share it with everyone, after all, catfish nerds know whats it like to experience a rare sighting with catfishes

lol, i have only seen my banjo a few times since i got him a week ago.

Never seen him eat though.

I hate guitarras. They're so adorable, yet they just never do anything. Mine are always out during the day--they just don't move.

hahahah well if u can be bothered to give them a lil poke...i've tried it before, ddin't work...not until i brought the net into the tank then it started actin all crazy well i've decided not to feed my catfish fer a night or two, then when i buy more life worms, theyll be so starved that they'll juzz come outta the dark to feed~! hahahahaha

yay a banjo sighting i haven't seen mine for a while..but saying that i haven't done the nightime torch trick for a while either..

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Billy was a scientist, Billy is no more. For what he thought was H20, was H2SO4

Speaking of rare sightings, I haven't seen my Synodontis nigriventris in about two months.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

2 months?? thought they were meant to be sociable fish that even venture out during the daytime, provided they have lotsa hidin places to vanish into in a flash whenever they see a big giant head outside their tank?

Yeah I've heard that they are supposed to be pretty bold fish, but mine isn't. Even when I had four of them they would still just hide all day unless I put some food in.

It's definitely not lack of hiding places, because with all the driftwood and plants I have in my tank, it is practically a maze of hiding places.

He comes out at night though, because I've seen him out swimming around when the lights were off.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

well its been almost a week now, and tho i've seen it hiding around in places...haven seen him eat yet...lol maybe that was my one lucky break at seeing a banjo eat

do you feed em bloodworms? that'll usually get my banjos moving..and eating


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Billy was a scientist, Billy is no more. For what he thought was H20, was H2SO4

yeh i feed 'em bworms....but thing is..my fish seem to go more nuts over common flakes than frozen bworms

Well, well, well... Look who I saw out in the open gorging on flakes today?



Time to start counting the months until I see him again...


EDIT: And I just noticed something really creepy about the picture - if you look at the cat's eye and then directly below it, you can see my snakeskin gourami hiding in the shadows.




Last edited by Cory Addict at 24-Mar-2005 21:21[/font]

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

lol congratulations on ur sightin i checked for mine last night n it wasbgone from its normal hiding place, but it was too well camouflaged against the bogwood dat i couldnt find him....ah well juzz hafta put in some food n hope he's hungry enuff to venture out for food