katanaone Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 ok about 2 weeks ago i went out and impulse bought six 7cm pictus catfish from a friend @ $8 each. i think i did pretty well. anyways i have noticed that 2 of them have grown larger that the other 4 so i quickly became interested in breeding them, the thing is i can't find any information on either breeding or sexing them any info would be great. ryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Ryan, I don't think I have ever seen anything on pictus breeding captivity! They are harvested is such huge numbers from the wild, I don't think anyone has even bothered trying Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novafishy Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 That's a pretty good buy Ryan. I myself have 4 pictus cats and i've noticed that only one of them has grown slightly bigger than the rest. Can you see any noticeable differences in the body/fin structure of the bigger ones compared to the smaller ones? fatter? long and slender? I've read somewhere that the females get more rounded and grow bigger than the males, as in S. multipunctatus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.d.m Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 i have one huge one and one tiny one ,both the same size when i bought them. according to planet catfish they havnt been bred in captivity because they dont reach sexual maturity in captivity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katanaone Posted February 8, 2005 Author Share Posted February 8, 2005 They are harvested is such huge numbers from the wild, I don't think anyone has even bothered trying Alan. surely, not every pictus cat is wildcaught...are they? Can you see any noticeable differences in the body/fin structure of the bigger ones compared to the smaller ones? novafishy. no differences that i can see, plus none will sit still long enough thanks guys ryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novafishy Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 plus none will sit still long enough HAH! you got that right! they are the most outgoing and active catfish huh? I love em! what are you feeding yours Ryan? and what sorta tank environment are they in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 They are harvested is such huge numbers from the wild, I don't think anyone has even bothered trying Alan. surely, not every pictus cat is wildcaught...are they? clown loaches are so why not certian catfish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katanaone Posted February 9, 2005 Author Share Posted February 9, 2005 what are you feeding yours Ryan? and what sorta tank environment are they in? they are in 2 different tanks, the first tank is a 4 footer with some juvenile gt's, jd's, and rd's. the second tank is a custom 100cm x 50cm x 60 cm tank with some assorted malawi's. both tanks have heaps of hidey holes and also quite a bit of open space. as far as food goes both tanks get a variety of foods including but not only hikari gold pellets, osi flake,spirulina flake, frozen bloodworm, gambusia, zuchinni. of course the americans get a more meaty diet and the malawi's get more vegies. the cats seem to anything i put in there as everything that goes in causes them to go into hysterics . ryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novafishy Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 its good that they are in different tanks with different species. that way we can see by feeding them more meaty foods as opposed to more veggie based, which ones will grow faster. yes i know alot of other factors need to be considered such as water quality, size of tank, hiding spaces, swimming space etc... but it would be good to see what the outcome of this is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducksta Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Ryan, a long time ago (in a galaxy far far away), I found some eggs in a tank with an oscar, several silver dollar and some pictus cats. I saved a few but I think I remember they all fungused like they weren't fertile. I was at the time unsure if they were silver dollars or pictus, but after seeing silver dollar eggs years later I am certain it wasn't them. I am not saying it was definately pictus, but they were useless anyway. Thats my story, thanks for reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Unlike clown loaches, the demand for pictus cats is not all that great and wild harvesting seems to satisfy demand. Even so they are seasonal, and are unavailable for several months each year. If the demand and price was there I'm sure they would be pond bred. Years ago those lousey sucker fish (CAE's) were all wild caught, but the demand was so huge, and still is, that they are even pond bred in different colour morphs these days. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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