peaceful cats for a 55

[wrs]

I want some nice peaceful catfish for a 55 gallon except corries and plecos.

It will have some live bearers and possibly some smaller tetras like priscilla, just havent decided to go with them or black skirt tetras

 

[WILDER]

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/com_index.htm

 

[Oddball]

Try any of these species of cat:

Glass catfish
Dubaui cat
Hoplosternum
porthole cat
upside down catfish
smaller banjo cats

 

[Phantom Thief]

I'd go with either glass cats or upside downs.

P.T.

 

[bunjiweb]

A small shoal of glass cats and a small synodontis species or maybe a group of porthole cats would work very well.

Ben

 

[Fishy411]

definately glass cats. THose are probably most common

 

[wrs]

the portholes are nice.

if I was to move into semi agressive, what about then?

I am more thinking a bottem dweller, and dont glass cats swim around the top a bit?
What about pictus, i kinda like those.

 

[B75]

How about a lovely bristlenose catfish. An ideal candidate for bottom feeders adn it also eats the algae.

 

[Fishy411]

the portholes are nice.

if I was to move into semi agressive, what about then?

I am more thinking a bottem dweller, and dont glass cats swim around the top a bit?
What about pictus, i kinda like those.

pictus's get to 6" and would most likely end up eating livebearers or tetras

 

[Inchworm]

Hi wrs

Both glass catfish and otos would be good choices for a peaceful community tank, but not for a semi-aggressive one.

I especially like the glass cats because, while they are shy and a bit fussy, they are almost unique. Their clear see-through bodies always get comments from people viewing them.

Otos are tiny sucker cats that would also go well with small fish. Like the glass cats, you would need to get a small group of them, but they are small and do not add much to the bio-load.

Here are the glass cats:

http/www.scotcat.com/factsheets/k_bicirrhis.htm

 

[wrs]

i got another idea, what about the Synodontis cats? I have always liked them.

 

[Fishy411]

maybe a syno ocellifer. They get 4-5" but are really heavy bodied. maybe a petricola would be ok

 

[Oddball]

synodontis nigreventis the upside down catfish, cute, small and a shaoler!

 

[Fishy411]

synodontis nigreventis the upside down catfish, cute, small and a shaoler!

yeah ^^^^^^ what he said. The only bad thing i can think of is that u need probly 5 at least and everywhere i have seen them they are around 9$.

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

Upside down cats are cool! I just brought home 3 last night (the only three in the store) and will be getting 2 more next week.

They're active and fun to watch. I got mine for $5 each because they were fairly small.