Best catfish for my lizards aquarium?

I have a Chinese water dragon and when I have built his final enclosure I want almost the whole bottom to be an aquarium, it will be approx 5'x2'x1.5'

I would like a community friendly catfish that stays under a foot, I like the pictus cats but I'm worried that if my lizard does decide to eat 1 the pectoral barbs would likely cause a problem.

I don't really want anything as small as corydoras or the like but any other ideas are appreciated


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Rivers2k said:

I maybe mistaken but I think all catfish have barbs of some sort. maybe you could do a larger common pleco or royal pleco?

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I know they have spines but I thought the pictus had barbs that's why you can't use nets to catch them? I will look into it some more


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fuzzlebug said:

What bout a raphael catfish? They stay small(6-7") and are armoured so no chance of being eaten.

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Yea they look cool but I would rather have something I am going to see now and then or at least be good at cleaning up and I've heard they are shy and messy?


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stiker said:

Plecos do have armouring, though they still do have the spines other catfish do

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Yea I've been thinking of a Pleco but the big ones are extremely messy and it's going to be relatively low water volume for the tank size because of the depth and a lot of the smaller "pretty" ones are pricey and would be an expensive meal if my lizard ever did decide to chow down on it lol


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krichardson said:

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and as nocturnal hiders there is little chance of ever seeing them.

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Yeah that's exactly what I have seen people say about them and even remember someone saying he had 1 for years and forgot he had it until he completely emptied the tank lol


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