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Hello,

Im new on here so if Ive missed a relevant thread or info then I apologise in advance.

Im in the process of setting up an Orinoco Drainage Biotope tank with the following fish to work as a community tank. The fish Im thinking of using are Uaru, Pterophyllum and maybe some Biotodoma or Geos.
Usually I just pick a few corys to put in a tank just as a clean up crew (cichlids being the focus) but this time I want to put some thought into getting a special catfish or two to work with.

What Im looking for is some interesting catfish (not corys, although I love corys I after something different). Im thinking in the 2 - 7" size range that is peaceful.

Anyone got any pointers to get my research started?

Thanks

Dan

can't get better than this when you want a mediumsized very peaceful social catfish that is a true species from the Orinoco!

You can find fish in the Cat-eLog that have a distribution in the Orinico, and click "Orinoco" for other fish that are in the same river. Click here for a link that I just found by doing that. I think there might be too many species, which is why it seems to be capping at 100. You can also use the Cat-eLog to search by location, though, so try that, because you should be able to limit it by family as well.

One suggestion that would be biotope correct would be . They are actually only in the trade as they are bycatch of the Discus trade. is another sp captured down in that area.

-Shane

Thanks guys for the pointers there.

Sidguppy, that looks amazing. Thanks for that.

Suckermouth, I have started going through the Cat-elog, I was just after a couple of ideas with which to start as there is so much here to learn, as I said, being new to catfish apart from Corydoras Sterbai its mind boggling how many species there are to look at.

Shane, the Sturisomatichthys sp' rio atabapo looks great.


Dan