I have kept & bred all three of these species. I have a trivial story from many years ago, not very useful. The banjo catfish is especially rare in Australia. I managed to track three down at $850 each which took several years of searching the whole country but they were all males... was fantastic to just watch them though. Such wierd looking creatures. Then I moved to Tokyo where I stayed several years on a working holiday. Naturally I bought some fish tanks and visited several aquarium stores. One of them was selling banjo cats!!! There was a whole tank filled with them ... I couldn't believe it. How much are they? - I asked with my limited Japanese language skills. They were only $5 each after a currency conversion. I had to ask several times, even wrote it out clearly so there wasn't a mistake. Yep... $5 each so I bought them all. 146 beautiful amazing fish. They tried to give me a discount but I thanked them politely and laughed. So cheap... and so much easier to breed when you have plenty of broodstock to choose from.
They do best in species only tanks with a little sand to sift and bury in. If you can't see them, just add fifty or one hundred more.
They do best in species only tanks with a little sand to sift and bury in. If you can't see them, just add fifty or one hundred more.
