Glass Catfish
Scientific Name: Kryptopterus minor
Family: Siluridae
About the Glass Catfish
Species Type: Freshwater Fish
Category: Catfish ...
Glass Catfish Species Profile
The glass catfish is one of the most unusual fish commonly kept in the hobby, and it is certainly the most transparent.
Glass catfish are very sensitive to a high change in pH, and are hard to feed unless they are kept is shoals of at least six. It is impossible to tell a male from a female, but it is quite easy to tell K. minor from K.
Glass Catfish
Glass Catfish
By Clint Norwood
Species/genus: Kryptopterus bicirrhis ...
The glass catfish or ghost fish, Kryptopterus bicirrhis, is a transparent freshwater aquarium fish. Body lengths can range up to 15 cm (6 in), but are usually less in aquarium specimens.
Unlike most catfish, the glass catfish is a mid-water shoaling fish, and should always be kept as a group. It may be difficult to acclimatise initially.
Anabantids
Catfish ...
African Glass Catfish, Congo Glass Catfish
Parailia congica
SYN: Parailia longifilis
PD: Its body is elongated and laterally compressed. It is scaleless and lack body pigment, thus making the fish semi-transparent.
Glass Catfish
These unique fish are schooling fish that need at least three of their own species in a school. These catfish are shy and unsure, especially prone to disease if stressed so good water quality is required for optimal health.
Glass Catfish
Another catfish to avoid is the Glass Catfish - Kryptopterus bicirrhis. While it stays small enough to be an aquarium fish (up to 6"), it is very delicate and should not be purchased by beginners.
Asian Glass Catfish, Glass Catfish, Phantom Catfish - Kryptopterus minor Roberts, 1989 ...
African Glass Catfish
From your About Guide, a short profile and photo of the African Glass Catfish
Albino Driftwood Catfish ...
Glass Catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhus): These things are strange-almost totally transparent, where obviously where they got their name from.
SizeOriginEase of keepFoodTempType
90 mm
S.E.Asia ...
The glass catfish, Kryptopterus bicirrhis, is an elegant fish in its natural state and should be kept that way. Their muscle tissue and skin is transparent, so that you can clearly see their bones and organs.
Known also as the Glass Catfish this is one of the most nearly transparent fish kept by aquarists. Were it not for the opaque, silvery sac containing the internal organs, it would really be difficult to see the fish at all.
He shares a 29 gal tank with 4 black fin tetras, a plecostamus and glass catfish which were purchased at the same time as he was. All other gouramis etc introduced seem to die.
And you can stick >that "If it looks to good to be true, it probably is" statment in the >section about painted glass catfish. maLIGNed!! ...
Another manifestation of the urge to "improve" on the products of billions of years of evolution is the pratice of injecting glassfish and glass catfish with fluorescent dyes to make "painted glassfish.
Potential tank mates include glass catfish, festivum cichlids, kribensis, clown loaches, large tetras, danios, rainbowfish, catfish, platies, and gouramis.
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i just bought two of these fish for my 250L aquarium he's about 10 cm and is happy with his 6 cm friend, 3 mountain minnows, 3 neon tetras, a hopplo catfish, a black ghost knife, a bristle nose, a molly, 6 phantom glass catfish, ...
pool: Rasbora einthovenii (a rasbora), Boraras maculata (dwarf rasbora), Belontia hasselti (Malay combtail), Betta waseri, Betta tussyae!, Sphaerichthys osphromenoides (chocolate gourami), Betta imbellis, Kryptopterus macrocephalus (a glass catfish), ...
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