Catfishes collect all the uneaten food from the substrate and consume it. They also play the role of the scavenger and keep our tanks clean of corpses and dead organic materials.
Catfishes
Plecostomus, aspidoras, corydoras, otocinclus, farlowella, synodontis and others.
Species are in alphabetical order according to their Latin names ...
Catfishes & Labyrinth fish: They generally would prefer a broad, deep tank with plenty of water. Some fish love to hide every now and then, try to give them small hiding places.
Angelfish: They are much happier if they are in tall tanks.
Plecos/Catfishes
Leopard Cory (Corydoras julii & trilineatus)
Bronze Cory (Corydoras aeneus) ...
Catfishes encountered in the aquarium trade are generally either attractively coloured with a bold pattern of stripes and/or spots (such as many L-number loricariids) or an exceedingly dull uniform brown or grey.
Catfishes have very good appetite and these feeders are no different. In fact, you could gutload them like by feeding them nutritions pellets before you feed them to your predator fish that wouldn't eat pellets! ...
Catfishes of Africa and Asia (over to Japan and Borneo), many genera with numerous species, the largest one achieves about two metres length. Some species are predatotory, often timid in an aquarium.
Banjo catfishes lack an adipose fin. Their common name refers to their dorso-ventrally flattened bodies that in some species at least resembles a banjo. Their bodies are naked except for large tubercles.
Because Panda Catfishes are expressive, lively fishes, a stimulating environment is de rigeur for them.
and in darkness it dilates. These fish also have the ability to contract their eye inside their head, analogous to blinking. a) "Mechanical Strength of the Pectoral Spine/Girdle Complex in PTERYGOPLICHTHYS" - Copeia, 1984 - Loricariid catfishes have ...
A perfect example of this is the rotting driftwood diet of certain _Panaque_ and other _Loricariid_ catfishes.
Some species such as the catfishes will lay their eggs in a sticky mass in pipes and other artificial nests that can be removed. These are then removed and incubated in a suitable environment, free from predators etc.
These beautiful fish inhabit the aquarium with a 16" silver arowana, as well as two common plecos, and two raphael catfishes, and more importantly, my medium silver gourami (G-Fish).
Other fish groups sometimes have this fin, such as most of the catfishes and the salmonids, neither of which are related to the characins.
"Yellow" seems to be proof that there is still substantial work to be done in identifying and cataloging the catfishes of Africa.
1987 Corydoras and Related Catfishes: An Introduction by Dr. Warren E. Burgess. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ. 123 pp.
Burgess, W.E. 1989 An Atlas of Freshwater and Marine Catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. T.F.H.
Non lethal defensive toxins are associated with spines in many fish including rabbitfishes (Siganidae), catfishes (such as Plotosidae) and stingrays.
Then there are the bottom feeders, like loaches and catfishes. What about them? If you feed according to the recommended five-minute rule, your bottom feeders won't get much to eat.
Just like plecos and many other armored catfishes, the unarmored banjo catfish will try to pinch you if you pick him up. Of course, most people have more sense than to try to pick them up.
â†' Sperm drinking by female catfishes: a novel mode of insemination, , Masanori, Kohda, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 1995
â†' David Sands in his 1982 publication "Catfishes of the World" vol. 1. ISBN 0-444-42282-X ...
The "Synodontis catfishes" do not have scales, scutes or or any other kind of body protection. They were originally famous for the first-kept member of the genus Synodontis; the Upside-Down Catfish, Synodontis nigriventis! ...
Suckermouth catfishes, like the plecostomus, are known for traveling down and up the glass as they devour algae, providing a naturally clean tank. Cleaning shrimp, crabs, and others make excellent cleaning species.
The Plecostomus is one of the fastest growing catfishes in captivity. A "cute" three-inch Pleco can double in length in six months and grow to a "horrendous" adult size of close to two feet in a couple of years.
The common name of 'Cuckoo' derives from this catfishes habit of swimming between spawning cichlids, eating their eggs and depositing their own.
The Pictus Cat is part of the antenna catfishes and usually has a pale to gray body with a black spotted pattern. The pectoral fins are serrated, so it is recommended that a glass bowl or cup be used to capture the fish rather than a net.
Native to the Central Congo basin, as with many catfishes they tend to be nocturnal. This one is peaceful and loves the underside of a flat stone in which to hide.
Easily fed, it tends to feed at night on plant matter, insects, and crustaceans.
Family: Pseudopimelodidae (Bumblebee catfishes, dwarf marbled catfishes)
Order: Siluriformes (catfish)
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) ...
Electric Catfishes can be injured easily because of their lack of scales and bony plates. This may lead to the fish burning itself against a hot aquarium heater or sharp rocks, so care must be taken when housing the tank.
Sands, David. A Fishkeeper's Guide to African and Asian Catfishes. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1986.
Sands, David. A Fishkeeper's Guide to South American Catfish. Morris Plains: Salamander Books Ltd., 1988.
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) Order: Siluriformes Family: Loricariidae (Armored catfishes), subfamily: Ancistrinae
First European import: Germany, 1914, by F. Kurich. First American import: N/A, Native fish.
Description: See picture ...
This is known as the 'adipose fin', and it can be a small singular structure (as in characins) or a more elaborate one (as in some catfishes).
Unlike a lot of other catfishes, whiptails do not need to school to be happy and healthy. In fact two males in the same tank may become aggressive towards one another with the outcome being the starvation of the smaller one.
 See also: Catfish, Fish, Species, Water, Aquarium
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