I can get photos and current water parameters tomorrow. The lighting is relatively low - he's got two long tube shelters to hide from the light in and the room is only lit when someone is working in it, although the blinds on a window across the room (but not a straight line across) are always half-...

The tank has been cycled for a while now - he's been in it for months - but I'm not convinced that the filters are the best. (I also think there was a day when the filter got left off after a prior water change.) I've been gradually changing out the filters but maybe I need to up my schedule on that...

My juvenile electric catfish appears to have streaks of blood in his fins. They are not evenly distributed but in spots - there's currently a spot in the lower middle caudal fin, for instance. While these areas seem to be longer along the fin rays than across fin rays they don't necessarily go end-t...

What I like about catfish is that within one order of fishes there is such incredible diversity and so my wishlist (assuming infinite money, tank space, etc) would include some of the weirder morphologies - Farlowella and Chaca chaca probably top that list. I already have Kryptopterus vitreolus and ...

Hey everyone, I've finally got myself a properly sized tank at home and I'm looking to stock it with catfish. So I have some compatibility questions to work out before I finish up the tank set-up. The tank is a 55 gallons long (48" x 13" x 20") and the plan is to filter it using a lar...

If this paper is accepted there will need to be a revision to the information on the Wels species entry on this site, as well as a change in the answer to question 2 ("What is the largest catfish in the world?") in the Catfish FAQ in the Help section of this site. After all, this paper giv...

Thanks. That's helpful. I won't bother looking for any Chaca then until I get a handle on a food source.

I've got to bump this to ask: is 15 gallons for an adult Chaca? I know they don't move much but I can't tell if this recommendation is for a sedentary 7" adult or just for a juvenile.

I can buy 8 feet of bamboo pipe in various diameters for less than $10 USD I've had good luck getting bamboo for various projects completely free. If you live in the right climate people will plant it as an ornamental and then it will go nuts and get everywhere and either the people who planted it ...

Great. He's definitely responding to food faster now, and seems to care less that I'm watching him eat.

I'd like to resurrect this thread to ask about food quantities. I've got a small (palm of my hand length) Malapterurus sp. which I acquired quite recently. With surface-feeding fish that I've kept before I've always used the rate of feeding to determine how much food to throw into the tank but this ...