Any cool catfish/pleco for a 50 gallon tank?

[Pazzoman]

Hey Everybody,

For my 50 gallon corner tank i've been looking into fish on aquascape, because they have lots of exotic plecos and catfish all at a very nice price. Well I've never been in the catfish section before but would any of these plecos or catfish be fine in a tank like mine...filteration is an fx5 if curious.

Catfish:
-Marble Sailfin Catfish
-Jaguar Catfish
-Pictus Catfish
-Lima Shovelnose

Hey please dont flame lol, I personally don't know the adult sizes of these fish, I use to have pictus cats in my 72 gallon before it was marine. The lima Shovel I forgot if they get real big like the TSN...I forgot but I see them at lfs at small sizes.

Plecos:
-Sunshine Pleco

I really like the colors on these guys, hope they are hardy and also small enough to stay in a 50 gallon.

Cory Catfish:

I was thinking of a shoal of strbais..

Also I know wrong sub forum:

Any polys?

Any advice, tips, suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

 

[mikec707]

The Jaguar if you can find one. That seems to be a prized cat for a 55 gallon tank but not easy to find. Also a Striped Raphael is cool looking but most hide all the time. They only get about 8" or so. Or a banjo cat.

 

[Pazzoman]

Lol aquascape sell's jags for $30

Are these guy's good for my 50 your saying?...hope a single one can do well

 

[wantokeeptrout]

a group of pictus cats would look nice as long as you get the smaller species

 

[Yellow_Perch]

i have a jaguar catfish reserved for me from aquascape for my 55G..but yea i would go with jag cat, pictus cat, and the poly..a senegal bichir is fine

 

[mshill90]

Para plecos are awesome, and stay small.

 

[Pazzoman]

Maybe I'll be thinking about the jags then...can they be kept alone? Also I will check on the para pleco...never heard of that.

 

[Pazzoman]

a group of pictus cats would look nice as long as you get the smaller species

That look nice, I thought thier was only one cat called pictus...the one on live aquaria looks real nice!

 

[mshill90]

Here's my para... He was $20.

 

[wantokeeptrout]

That look nice, I thought thier was only one cat called pictus...the one on live aquaria looks real nice!

there are 2 species that are very similar except for size, one gets 25 cm long while the other species grows about 15 cm long. The smaller ones are the ones I recommended.