Thanks for those links - it looks like its definitley a Akysis species. The Doradids look too round and fish like (mine are flat like plecs).

The stripes on the tail are horizontal.

I think they were sold to us as A. Hardmani (I remeber there was a H in the name), but I have the odd feeling that ...

It looks most like a fish from the Akysidae family - but none of the pictures in the eLog match the ones I have.

Is there any similar looking catfish ? And even if it is one of tAkysidae, how do you feed them, as they seem to be living under the sand all the time, they never come up for feeding ...

They gave it a long complicated latin name, which I have forgotten. It's not my local petshop, so I don't go there very often (it's about 1 hr drive through London traffic....)

Thats why I wanted to find out, before they starve

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I went to the fish shop and bought 2 catfish which bury themselves in the gravel. They are chocolate brown (mottled) with caramel stripes on the tail and have long whiskers (about half the length of the body). The petshop said they will grow to about 5cm. I have no idea what they are. Can ...

Clown Loaches will eat snails, Kuhli Loaches tend to eat them as well. Puffers will eat snails.

But you said you tried Loaches before and they got eaten. So they are not a good idea. Puffers are poisonous as well, so if your fish eat them, they die.

Now, I don't really see what your problem is. I ...