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Post by Micheal Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:23 am

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Post by Splash Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:34 am

Hmmmm I like this fishy
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Post by cichlidman Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:52 am

In a word WOW!!!
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Post by theswede Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:02 pm

Cool looking fish!
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Post by Drake-tripod Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:54 pm

any updates?
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Post by vman Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:26 am

These were common in the 70's-mid 80's but I haven't seen them in a long while here . Cool fish if you have enough surface area for them . I had some in a 100 gal with the water level dropped so the could fly, well skim the surface & jump almost flying . lol! They loved baby crickets & it was a heck of a show. big grin
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Post by cichlidman Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:30 pm

Cool...
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Post by danish3210 Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:37 am

it looks pretty rare.

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Post by FedEXguy Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:14 am

I remember seeing these all the time in my childhood (80s and early 90s) but I haven't seen them in a long time. That is, until this last Saturday, when I walked into my local big box store to see a tank full of these and upside-down cats. I've always thought they were nifty little fellas.
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Post by Drake-tripod Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:18 am

how about a update cap?
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Post by iceblue Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:21 pm

Very cool. At our County and Agricultural fair in Ventura back in the early seventies they had an aquarium contest in one of the small backrooms. Usually there were only 3 or 4 aquariums shown but one of them was a 20g with the substrate fixed upside down at the top of the aquarium and it had these wonderful upside down catfish swimming across it. I used to think they were confused until I I saw them at an aquarium shop.
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Post by vman Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:04 am

Iceblue these are not even catfish . They are Pantodon buchholzi .
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Post by nitroloser Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:26 am

cool blew me away the first time i seen these ive had common plecos do this while feeding the other fish too
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Post by iceblue Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:08 am

vman wrote:Iceblue these are not even catfish . They are Pantodon buchholzi .

Thanks for the correction. It's been a long time since I've seen them and I had always assumed they were catfish.....Time to do a little studying. bangin
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Post by football mom Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:17 am

I have seen them in a lfs in Corpus Christi before. They jump! There were two, one in an upper tank, one lower down, the clerk told me that one had leaped out of the upper tank, but luckily landed in the tank below, lol.
What was interesting was they had started off the same body color, but the one that jumped had changed color after he "relocated" himself.

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Post by Micheal Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:22 pm

I ended up selling mine back to the fish store. It was pretty neat to feed him crickets and watch him dart across the tank chasing it. Nicole was scared to clean the tank because he would dart around so much and almost jumped out a few times.
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