I'm wondering what, if any, species of catfish is out there that is in the same ballpark in size as the South American Bumblebee catfish. I'm always looking at craigslist to upgrade my aquariums, but my current Asian tank is only a 29 gallon so obviously my favorite Asian Cat (Asian Redtail) is out ...

It's not that I necessarily want to stay away from them. I guess I misspoke. I just want to be sure I know the needs of the fish prior to buying it so that I know I am housing it properly.

Or just some of them? I know that there at least some wood-eating plecos out there. If I want to stay away from them, which ones do I want to stay clear of? I don't need a complete list necessarily. I just need the common ones found in pet stores or online stores that are routinely found for sale ...

Shane wrote:Heok Hee is correct. I scrub algae out of my Chiloglanis tanks.
-Shane

Can you think of a better alternative?

I'm trying to go with continent specific tanks. I have two South American tanks (210 and a 55) and one African (29). I currently have a bristle nose pleco in there, but I would like to move him out and get something from africa. I did find a genus Chiloglanis that might hold some promise. I don't ...

As indicated in the other thread, my jaguar is not too fussy - she/he really likes pieces of prawn, & tablets and shrimp sticks but will accept bloodworm, various types of sinking pellet etc etc Okay, let me ask you this then. How do you know the cat is getting the food? How do I ensure they are ...

I have jaguar catfish in two different tanks, the larger which is just a bit bigger than yours also houses two oscars, one striped raphael and a pl*co (gibbiceps). I've never witnessed the oscars harassing the four jaguars in any way. Actually, sometimes when feeding, the jaguars come out of their ...

Has anyone ever housed one of these bad boys before? I got my little fella over the internet, cause they weren't to be found at any of my LPS and I'm not sure he's eating. I mean, he must be eating a little or he'd have died a long time ago, but I never see him come out of his little hiding hole ...

Anyone else? Thought I'd get more replies than this, with this being a site specifically set up for catfish lovers.

Anyone else have this guy? If anyone have p[ics of the adult version, please post them.

I'm really not interested in any Plecostomus'. Doradids are not 'pl*cos'. Really? They sure look like it to me. I'm no expert... that's why I'm here... but I did a google search and came up with a pick that looked a lot like a plecostomus. I just did another google search and found, they in fact ...

I would avoid the Jaguar (L.Oncinus) & the achara for different reasons - the first is peaceful without armour to the body & potentially there may be aggression in your tank with some of the c*****ds - the 2nd is a predator which gets large & may view his tankmates as a potential meal. The second ...

Dave Rinaldo wrote:Leiarius marmoratus is a synonym (old name) of

Leiarius longibarbis

There's a rather large size discrepancy between the two sites (24" @ PS and 32" here) but either way, bigger than I want to go. I'll look into the Liosomadoras oncinus and see where that takes me.

I found a fish at Petland that was marked Jaguar Catfish on the side of the tank. There was no other name. However, he told me that it was a Achara/Jaguar catfish = Leiarius marmoratus. I put that in google and found on at PetSolutions. http://www.petsolutions.com/404.aspx?404;http://www ...

I'm new to this forum, so if this has been covered in the past, I do apologize. I'm setting up a South American tank. I just got my 210 up and running. I have in there so far, Silver Dollars, an Oscar, Manguense and a Blue Jack Dempsey. I need a catfish that will get big enough to not be on the ...