Wow... I had no idea piranhas and gars were technically illegal here too. Good grief.
Although many people certainly keep them anyway... hmm.

The lovely clarias batrachus- I've read that they've been banned in "many places"... Anyone know if I'm allowed to keep one in Colorado?

The cat-elog (and other sites) say the columbian gets bigger- I was wondering, does that mean slightly bigger, or several inches bigger? I'm thinking of putting them in with big SA cichlids, so I'd like to get the biggest I can.

Does anyone have tips on how to tell which kind the lfs is selling ...

So the plates on corys, hoplos, etc, aren't actually scales?

The care sheets for pictus cats, for example, usually note that since the fish has no scales, it's more sensitive to ich and many medications- that's what I was wanting to avoid if possible. If all catfish have no scales, do they all have ...

I'm planning a 120g (48x24x24) tank- so far it'll have an oscar and a jack dempsey. I'd like to add a cool catfish to help pick up after the big guys- does anyone have suggestions for a species that:

1) Is not a pleco

2) will be much bigger than the oscar's mouth but small enough to be happy in ...