nice catfish for 90 gallon

gage · Post by **gage** » 03 Mar 2007, 21:22

im looking for a really nice looking catfish that only gets 10-12 inches?

gage · Post by **gage** » 03 Mar 2007, 22:49

is there any?????????????????

chris 1 · Post by **chris 1** » 04 Mar 2007, 01:57

Try Cat-elog

kcmt01 · Post by **kcmt01** » 04 Mar 2007, 02:18

Not sure what you mean by "nice-looking"... something like this?
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... cies_id=95

kcmt01 · Post by **kcmt01** » 04 Mar 2007, 02:29

Cat e-log, sorted by length...
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/si ... 40&max=240

gage · Post by **gage** » 04 Mar 2007, 17:11

i meant nice patterning like the sailfin pim, srry for not being specific enough

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 05 Mar 2007, 11:22

There are 1700 species in the Cat-eLog - there's probably about 500 more species in the world, but those are rare (or misidentified) in the trade - and until we have a photo of the fish, we don't generally put a data-sheet in the Cat-eLog.

To find fish according to size, you can use:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/search.php

You can also enter temperature (be as CLOSE to the temperature as possible, meaning 27-28'C will show more fishes than 25-28'C for example) and restrict the choice to being on family or even genus.

There are 132 species that are 10-12" long here. [But 103 of those are "Loricariidae", so plecos of one sort or another. Many catfish tend to be either smaller or larger than this size... 332 are larger than 300mm, 1428 are shorter than 250mm]

In Pimelodidae (where the "sailfin pim" belongs) there are only a few species in roughly that size range, 1 that is 10-12",

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Mats

gage · Post by **gage** » 06 Mar 2007, 22:10

ill be more specific, catfish that fit in a 90 happily that wont be a snack for a 12 inch flowerhorn cichlid, he isnt 12 inches yet hes actually very small(3") but soon will be huge