View Full Version : Bagrus meridionalis and Cichlids...fun stuff!!!
ChilDawg
08-02-2003, 12:28 PM
I love www.scotcat.com and I found an interesting Cichlid-related fact in this month's factsheet: http://www.scotcat.com/factsheets/bagrus_meridionalis.htm
Anyone ever tried keeping the cat and cichlid together?
There are a few people here who have red tail catfish with cichlids.
ChilDawg
08-02-2003, 2:03 PM
I've seen that, and that would be interesting...but I think it would be more fun to try the combo of this particular exotic cat and less exotic cichlid in a large indoor pond some day!
All I have to say is that I never want to try poached catfish. Yuck!
Aren't some catfish from blackish water? Or maybe it is just in Malaysia :D I'm from Malaysia. I have seen many catfish from blackish water.
ChilDawg
08-02-2003, 7:27 PM
Blackwater cats? Sure! A lot of the Amazonian catfish are blackwater denizens! Actually, so are some of the madtoms and I believe some of the mudcats (bullheads).
peifc
08-03-2003, 12:34 AM
Originally posted by ChilDawg
Blackwater cats? Sure! A lot of the Amazonian catfish are blackwater denizens! Actually, so are some of the madtoms and I believe some of the mudcats (bullheads).
That's what I thought. I knew I wasn't going crazy.
Well...maybe I am. :D
ChilDawg
08-03-2003, 12:27 PM
If you're not yet, this site can make you that way...but I don't mind that at all! :)
Actually, I don't think it is this website or the forums. I think it is my fishes that make me...uhmm...crazy. Now I have fish obsession because of them. That is definitely an illness :D even though I don't mind having this illness.
ChilDawg
08-03-2003, 5:07 PM
I suppose that if I had a few more fishes, I would be crazy 'cos of them! (Instead, I'm gonna let the site make me insane for now.) :)
Rare Cichlids
08-04-2003, 11:24 PM
Last weekend at the ACA 2003, Ad Konings mention those catfish in his Malawi presentation. He talked about and showed pictures of a particular species of cichlid that would strip skin off of the catfish leaving long white scars on every catfish in the lake. He also said that many cichlids will "dump" their fry with brooding catfish and let the catfish unknowingly guard the cichlid fry, alongside their own. He went on to say that many species of cichlid abuse this catfish in many ways, because the cichlids are more intelligent.
It was a Great presentation.
ChilDawg
08-05-2003, 9:48 AM
I wish that I could've gone...that's awesome how Cichlids have adapted to having such a large predator nearby!!! :)
Reminds me of the cowbirds that lay their eggs in others nest.
Man I wish I could have gone to the ACA!