Many months later, I thought you might be amused to see what the solution to my problem was. Basically, I stopped weighting down some of my more buoyant driftwood pieces, and the two Squeakers immediately took to hanging underneath the floating wood and thereafter left the plants alone. I do ...

Thank you for your response!

I, too, have wondered at times whether they're trying to compensate for something dietary. I do feed them a pretty mixed diet of sinking pellets intended for catfish and loaches (which I also keep, elsewhere), algae wafers, and fresh/frozen vegetables. They ...

First: many thanks for your beautiful database! You are the site that helped me identify my beloved catfish a few years ago when I took them in and had no idea what I was dealing with.

So, a few years ago, I read a description of the Featherfin Squeaker claiming that they "like plants and would ...