Red tail Catfish advice needed!!

fuiuk · Post by **fuiuk** » 18 Aug 2005, 18:53

Hi there everyone, i've inherited a 13 inch, one year old redtailed catfish from a friend of mine. Ive got an 8x2x2 tank set up for a 10 inch disc leopoldi ray thats arriving shortly with an 9-10 inch royal plec and a mother of snails cat about the same size already in there, my questions are firstly will the redtail definately outgrow this tank? As my books all give different sizes, and if not what tankmates will he accept? Thanks for your time fella's Wayne.

Post by **medaka** » 19 Aug 2005, 00:00

will the redtail definately outgrow this tank?

my experience says that it will outgrow a 8x2x2.

what tankmates will he accept?

As it grows you may find that it won't accept any tank mates except more RTC's
2 RTC's never get on 3 or more seem to do fine, but infighting will occur. It may tolerate
larger fish but then again you will have to provide a pond to house these large fish.
(again experience)

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 19 Aug 2005, 10:18

medaka wrote:
2 RTC's never get on 3 or more seem to do fine

Here's the exeption to the rule: Verduyn C*****ds in Rotterdam, Netherlands has had 2 RTCs for more than 15 years now and they do fine together. They used to have tankmates, of which they were very fond. Like Hannibal, they were always having friends for dinner.....