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I have what I call a temperate riffle tank(55 gallon). Its mainly North American natives, banded darters, tesselated darters, orange throat darters, black nosed & long nosed dace and a pair of Sewelia lineolata. Theres also a pair of purple danios that got evicted from my daughters tank. They all recently survived a 5 day power outtage which had the tank dip to 52* F for 5 days. Normal average tank temperature is 73* F. I was thinking about a catfish species. Because of my darters only being 2-3" long, I've shy'd away from madtoms since they can eat darters. Can anyone recommend anything?

Tried searching by temps on site. Can Corydoras paleatus, trilineatus & zygatus really have a temp. range of 60*F-77*F? Never knew a Cory could go so low.

Have you looked at the ?

Apparently some cory species are found in high mountain streams where ice has been known to form for some periods of time - i can't find the thread/post but it might have been from Ian (Coryman) so would be genuinely accurate info.

Chaetastoma might be a good choice or Glyptothorax. Both like cooler, well areated fast moving water

searching by temperature range (65*F-76*F) & sorting by length (0.5"-4"), I find C. paleatus, C. trilineatus, Gagata cenia & Hara hara the most promising.

exasperatus2002 wrote:searching by temperature range (65*F-76*F) & sorting by length (0.5"-4"), I find C. paleatus, C. trilineatus, Gagata cenia & Hara hara the most promising.

This is ok for species that have temperature information in the cat-e-log but some others will not be included - Astroblepus might do well in the set up but some don't have temperature info in their cat-e-log page