sounds like a deal for 4 bucks. i got mine for 5 because the girl who bagged it tagged it as a different fish. ive heard that they can turn right side up permanently depending on what you feed it. mines seems to like floating flakes so its still upside down. if you feed yours pellets or it was previously trained to eat pellets, thats what may have caused it.
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I had the same thing happen, i bought aa thing that said upside down cat
and two years later its grown into a beautiful large sydontis eruptis i believe, bought him for 4 dollars saw the saem fish in the same store much larger for 25 dollars so
maybe you'd give the eruptis a look
and two years later its grown into a beautiful large sydontis eruptis i believe, bought him for 4 dollars saw the saem fish in the same store much larger for 25 dollars so
maybe you'd give the eruptis a look
Asian catfish: health and temprament
Your description matches an upside down catfish that I recently adopted - very dark solid color, 6 barbels including 2 on the nose, and no scales. It took me several days of searching the web to identify it as an Asian upside down catfish. However I was tipped off towards Mystus leucophasis by its description on PlanetCatfish of being beautiful and vicious. As for the health of your cat, I had noticed white spots on the sides of mine when I adopted him which turned out to be ich. I am a new aquarium owner, and as such have not dealt with fish diagnosis before, but I was remembering you mentioning the spots on the cat's side, and for what I've read, these cats don't develop spots until they grow older (mine is ~2 in.). Also, as a word of caution, as I mentioned earlier, these cats can be vicious. Be careful about what kinds of fish you put with this cat, as they will eat just about anything that is 3/4 their own size. When I adopted my cat, I put him in with my beta (my only other fish) and have since had to separate them in order to protect my beta. My cat would chase my beta and nip at his pretty tail, needless to say the beta would try to keep his distance - and they are essentially the same size!
Your description matches an upside down catfish that I recently adopted - very dark solid color, 6 barbels including 2 on the nose, and no scales. It took me several days of searching the web to identify it as an Asian upside down catfish. However I was tipped off towards Mystus leucophasis by its description on PlanetCatfish of being beautiful and vicious. As for the health of your cat, I had noticed white spots on the sides of mine when I adopted him which turned out to be ich. I am a new aquarium owner, and as such have not dealt with fish diagnosis before, but I was remembering you mentioning the spots on the cat's side, and for what I've read, these cats don't develop spots until they grow older (mine is ~2 in.). Also, as a word of caution, as I mentioned earlier, these cats can be vicious. Be careful about what kinds of fish you put with this cat, as they will eat just about anything that is 3/4 their own size. When I adopted my cat, I put him in with my beta (my only other fish) and have since had to separate them in order to protect my beta. My cat would chase my beta and nip at his pretty tail, needless to say the beta would try to keep his distance - and they are essentially the same size!
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Thanks for the information, J Flare.
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