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Longevity of various catfishes (query).
Posted: 30 Dec 2004, 08:53
by matongflush
Anyone knows how long the following catfishes are capable of living?
Cetopsis
South American red-tailed catfish
Asterophysus batrachus
Posted: 03 Jan 2005, 10:41
by Marc van Arc
Well it depends of course how well you feed them.
Cetopsis will live quite a while when accompanied by Phractocephalus: it's a parasite that lives of large Pimelodids (a.o.). But what if the red-tail gets the Cetopsis first??
Generally speaking catfish live long, but I think it's impossible to give let's say minimum guaranteed ages to certain species. Perhaps you can post a poll in which you take one species and ask members about their experiences concerning age of that specific species.
Good luck.
PS: I hope I will live long enough to see an Asterophysus
in any Dutch LPS.....