Leopard Ctenopoma Or African Spotted Leaf Fish!

[emilysonfiree]

Ive gust bought one of these fish for my empty 20 gallon tank! He has been in this tank for about two weeks and luckily is not as shy as I expected! As you can see below hes only a little over an inch long but hes so cute! I was wondering if i could put any other fish with him in the future? Ive heard platties and pretty much anything that isn't bite size would be good but since it is a 20 gallon i do not want him to feel like he has no room of his own.

This is my new fishhy!

 

[MBOU]

It all depends really, they are a shy fish and do like their own company, but one on its own is easily going to outgrow that tank...

And what size fish they are will depend on which species of fish they eat... i've seen adult Ctenopoma eating platies happily... but they were big fish...

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

I have four (albeit I think one may be C. ocellatum), in 18 months they have gone from 2-10cm, I expect they will reach ~14cm and could well live for 20 years. They do well in calm tanks, where life is taken in the "chilled out lane," I've combined them well in my Rio240 with...
African Butterfly Fish
Golden Wonder Killifish
Upside Down Syndontis
Pyjama Synodontis
Emerald Brochis
Sterbai Corydoras
Rabbit Snails
Panda Garra

I had to put my four back int he 5x2x2 just before Xmas after my unplanned Lionhead Cichlid breeding crisis, where they do not really appreciate the zippy Barilius and Redline Torpedo Barbs, but they do enjoy the mass of bogwood down there and the two tall artificial plants (enabling them to do their instinctive leaf impressions of just hanging in the water). Given that my Barilius are going to a new home soon, I'm torn between leaving them down there or bringing them back into the Rio240, they became so interactive in there last summer.

 

[SiFighter]

I've got mine in with everything in my community tank, from my tiny bumblebee goby's to my big old grumpy clown syno. He eats feeder shrimp, live worms, crickets (intended for my butterfly fish) and delights in live and frozen brine shrimp/bloodworm. A a surprisingly good community fish. Wonders gently around the tank and, of course, gives it the leaf impression from time to time. A fish full of personality.