I have a 29 gallon tank with 11 Cardinal tetras and 1 common pleco. When the pleco gets too big I plan on trading him in for a bristlenose pleco. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some catfish that would be good.
Looking for Good Catfish
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Of course cories are your best bet! Get them in groups of at least four.... You could go with about six with no problem with tank size.
I have two Pictus cats but they tend to get a bit big and eat some of my offspring (small fry). Other than that they are not very aggressive to my other tank mates.
Most people in this forum would probably say to avoid them tho'!
I have two Pictus cats but they tend to get a bit big and eat some of my offspring (small fry). Other than that they are not very aggressive to my other tank mates.
Most people in this forum would probably say to avoid them tho'!
Corydoras julii
We have a couple of corydoras julii in their own seven gallon bow tank which we really like. They only grow to two inches long and like company of their own kind and are very peaceful. Ours really like the Nutrafin Max Sinking Pellets which we break up into four small pieces for them. So far they haven't gone for the Hikari Sinking Wafers which we end up netting out of the tank after a few hours.
Apparently, three-lined catfish (aka leopard cory) are often sold as corydoras julii. They look very similar and their requirements are similar.
We keep ours in a pH of 6.8 and dH of 3.5 - 4.5 though they can tolerate considerably more hardness and I intend to let the hardness move up to around 8-10. Our water temp is around 79 F. They do not like aquarium salt.
We have a couple of corydoras julii in their own seven gallon bow tank which we really like. They only grow to two inches long and like company of their own kind and are very peaceful. Ours really like the Nutrafin Max Sinking Pellets which we break up into four small pieces for them. So far they haven't gone for the Hikari Sinking Wafers which we end up netting out of the tank after a few hours.
Apparently, three-lined catfish (aka leopard cory) are often sold as corydoras julii. They look very similar and their requirements are similar.
We keep ours in a pH of 6.8 and dH of 3.5 - 4.5 though they can tolerate considerably more hardness and I intend to let the hardness move up to around 8-10. Our water temp is around 79 F. They do not like aquarium salt.
pictus cats are great and very active. they do get big and be VERY VERY VERY careful to quarantine any fish you put in with them because they are hard to treat for things like ich beacuse they are scaleless. I lost two that way :sad
I realize they aren't catfish, but kuhli loaches are great fish as well.
(Sorry, I am very partial to my kuhlis
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You might also look into pygmy cories or dainty cories, they only get an inch long so you could have a nice little school of them.
(Sorry, I am very partial to my kuhlis
)You might also look into pygmy cories or dainty cories, they only get an inch long so you could have a nice little school of them.
My vote always goes to the pictus, I had cory's when I was young, and there is certainly nothing wrong with them, but I think a pictus is a beatiful fish and they get along with everything. They grow as big as 6" , but you can buy them pretty small and they grow fairly slowly. I like them because they are very active.
pictus cats are COOL. however, you can surely say goodbye to your cardinals if you were to obtain a pictus. my roommate last year bought one for our communal tank, and they picked off our glowlights one by one. do not add a pictus to your tank as is.
Never had any personal problems with pictus eating my fish, even Feeder guppies seem safe, unless killed buy something else and fell to the bottom. Any larger catfish will be a predator on occasion though. I have never had more than one pictus at a time and always buy them small. That may be the reason I haven't had problems.
they become more predatory as they grow....i always go by the concept that, "if its fits in an animal's mouth, it's potential prey."