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I shopped till I dropped and my feet are so sore and my pockets are so now empty but I brought home new fishies.
The first is I think definitely one of the 4 panda cories I bought but the the other one in the pic (I bought 3 of them) was supposed to be Corydora Melanistius. I don't even think now they are corys at all.


Another panda cory and the elephant nose I bought. Love that cool nose.


I also fell in love and brought home 2 balloon rams.


My poor little school of 3 glass catfish got 3 new friends to make them a gang, and I also got 2 royal whiptails.


I bought this as a gold pencil fish but when I got home I found it is a malayan halfbeak.


And last but not least, my personal favourite, a spiney eel.

My gosh, your LFS'es mislabeling is starting to become a bit of a nightmare. I mean, one of my LFSes mislabels all the time, but thankfully I'm able to actually identify what most of the fish are.

Hopefully you can bring that Halfbeak back to health. However, halfbeaks can be quite nippy and are not suited for a community aquarium.

Like the Sturisoma, they're great fish!

Looks like you've got a lot of bigger fish (well, they WILL be bigger). You're going to have to upgrade in the future!

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I think your 'cory' is a Synodontis schoutedeni, a.k.a. a Leopard catfish. How wonderful! If I'm right, this little sweetie and his mates will get to about 6 or 7 inches.

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Twilight I think you are absolutely correct. I hold out hope it is S.aterrimus which only get to 3" but it doesn't really look like in this link. Schoutedeni is seems to be.
http://www.scotcat.com/factsheets/synodontis_schoutedeni.htm

Now I know why you were shopped out. All the best with your new fish

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What a great new collection of fish Bren! That patterned catfish is beautiful, but I especially like the elephant nose.

Bren ...You'll get banned from LFS shopping I'm only allowed to go once a fortnight now .
You certainly got a very wide bunch of fishies on this trip . Pandas are great little fish ... you'll love them .

Garry

great pics... I think my fave is the ballon ram, I looked for them at the LFS over the weekend, didnt find any. Is he known by another name?

http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/533.htm
Seems to be quite a few variants including a gold morph.
The gold ones were also at my lfs but I liked the more traditional colored ones. Look in the photo section for lots of ram photos.

Had a casualty today. The male balloon ram died shortly after a frozen bloodworm feeding. I took a pic while he was ill but couldn't see any red gills or spots or injury. He did however look like his anus was pushed out somehow. I figure he absolutely gutzed himself and paid a very heavy price. Water peram's were perfect. RIP Mr Ram.


On a brighter note, I managed to get a shot of my elephant nose "Peter" and I got his eye, without it reflecting back to the camera! It looks like a cat.


I never grow tired of seeing my upsidedown catfish and their antics. They can't quite turn upsidedown yet by themselves and use the front glass to start them off. Rather like training wheels.

It's probably not that much that the catfish can't turn upside down by themselves, but prefer to keep their belly against an object. I have other non-upside down catfish that flip sideways and upside down as they keep their belly against a rock or piece of wood.

Hmmm, I have heard of fish eating so that their digestive organ turns inside out through their anus. That sucks.

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Bren ...sorry to hear about your Ram .... some fish just don't know when to stop eating . Grim news . IME the first couple of weeks after bringing them home is always the most deadly .
Tough luck .

Garry

I think my female ram is grieving. She isn't out front displaying colors just moping around in the plants. I think she is looking for her mate.
I went down the lfs and ordered 3 friends for her and they should be here by tomorrow. Yea I know, I am a softie.

Friday next week for the fish now as I missed this weeks order. On the bright side, the female balloon ram is eating and seems ok.
I counted and counted the litte pandas and kept coming up with 3 instead of 4. They were only very little ones when I got them. I searched the tank and wedged way up under the DW was a dead panda.
On the plus side, I also found a baby cory about a month old who must have hatched from the bronze cory eggs left in there. He had better keep close to that DW as the Eupterus cats might think he is edible.

you certainly bought yourself a good stock! sorry about the loss of your male balloon and the panda, but on the plus side you are getting more rams, and you found a juvie corry... what could get worse? i have to say i am jealous of your eel as i have always wanted one... i also think that you did an excellent job of picking the rest of the fishies...

i love it!!! FTS soon>>???<<

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