What do you know about p. niger?

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ultimatejay said:
A p. niger would never be able to eat a clownknife. Their mouths are like carp's. They prefer to eat pellets, worms, detritus, plant material, and even fruit. They are gentle giants and are non aggressive. The like to sift through sand and gravel for food. Be aware if you have a nice planted tank that they will uproot plants and other decor in your tank.
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Actually I'm talking about loachs not knifes.:grinno: My tank is quite bare (no plants) with a large piece of driftwood and natural riverrock substrate. My pacu. barbs, bocourti etc would take out most plants.
KNH
 
KNH said:
Actually I'm talking about loachs not knifes.:grinno: My tank is quite bare (no plants) with a large piece of driftwood and natural riverrock substrate. My pacu. barbs, bocourti etc would take out most plants.
KNH
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Oh, ok. You still will be alright with the loaches unless the p. niger gets really big, but even then I would doubt that it would eat a loach.
 
I doupt you will have a problem with them eating anyone.Years ago I had two 16" niger cats in a 250 gallon tank with feeder eaters. At feeding time the feeders would dash wildly throughout the tank to avoid capture. The cats would spit out any feeder that accidentally swam into their mouth.
 
I had a rather large one awhile back (3'). He munched on a lot of different food items, but never bothered the other fish.
 
I had one for along time- extremely peaceful- can be kept with almost any kind of fish- won't eat anything, and nothing messes with it- the only drawback would be how BIG they get- REALLY BIG!!!!!! We're talking 9feet!!!!!!!!!

Mine never got that big- it was stunted, and only got to be about 24"- which was fun for me but probably contributed to an early death for the cat (I had her 10 years)

I have a 1967 Alxerod's mini fish atlas and it states they get 3 meters, and eat flower petals. I always found that part really amusing.
 
Well there clown loaches so i have reservations about them. But i think the clowns will grow big enough so they aren't 'food', some will get to about 12 inches. They are mostly lazy, but some people say that about Giraffes and mine isn't.
 
Thanks for the info. I've decided to go ahead and get one within the next couple of weeks.
KNH
 
These catfish are scavengers not predators. I've had them and they did really well in my S. American tank. I feed them pellets and they did awsome. Only time they would come out of hidding is when the lights went off or food went in the tank. They were never aggresive to any of my other fish and other fish left them alone as well... A truley must have in a S. American catfish tank just my opinion though.
 
Unfortunatly I don't have any pics but there is some really good ones at www.aquariacentral.com it's being referred to as the dolphin catfish on that site. Fastest way I found to the pics is freshwater speices, freshwater, freshwater photo gallery, catfish, and dolphin catfish...
 
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