Should I get one?

seds · Post by **seds** » 19 Oct 2006, 03:56

I was wondering If I could get White spotted Droadids (raphiel catfis) I got 2 tanks:
I have a crayfish, tinfoil barbs, glass catfish, and a gourami in a 70 gallon tank
and
5 goldfish and 2 upside down catfish In the 30 galloner.
which tank would they be better suited to?
Would the crayfish kill them? And would I need to get more than one?
oh yeah and would I ever get to see it active or will it only move in pitch blackness...?

seds · Post by **seds** » 21 Oct 2006, 17:26

Grr... I didn't get them anyways... Got shark cats instead. I have seven tinfoil barbs in a 70 gallon tank with lots of other fish but I jsut learnt that they get to be 14 inches long!!!! WHAT DO I DO!? I cant have that big of fish in a tank that size.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 21 Oct 2006, 19:33

seds wrote: WHAT DO I DO!? I cant have that big of fish in a tank that size.

That shouldn't be too difficult. Return them to where you've got them from.

natefrog · Post by **natefrog** » 21 Oct 2006, 22:08

I also noticed that you aquired "shark cats." If these are the same catfish that is often called "Columbian Shark Cat," or "Black-finned Shark Cat," you have run into another fish that will outgrow the size of you aquarium and also requires brackish to fully marine water in adulthood. Hexanematichthys seemanniundefined

seds · Post by **seds** » 22 Oct 2006, 05:09

they didn't accept them... So I just put them in their own tank... The 30 galoner... Once they are mature I will move them to the large tanks. Will they stay fairly small if I move them after they are mature? I have one that is 5 years old. I had no idea that he would grow so large in a 20 gallon tank. He hasn't grown at all since then. It'll work right?