Electric Catfish

[DENCIO]

Very nice, missing mine dearly but soon I'll have a ecat setup again in the next 6 months or so hopefully. You can keep synodontis specie catfish with them, they are immune to the shock and I kept 3 syno multipunctatus and 2 syno flavitaeniatus with my 10" e cat with no problems. Earthworms are what I fed mine most of the time and they are pretty nutritious I think but beefheart and blood worms would work great as well.

I think they can control how hard they shock, it hurts them when they do so it might have not been shocking as hard as it could, just enough for them to get the point that they didn't like being touched or almost touched. I know that my friend wanted to see what it was like and put his hand in the tank the first couple times he got a small shock that was enough to make him flinch at first but when he got used to it not bad but then finally my ecat got pissed off and shocked him hard enough for him to yell out some profanity and rip his hand out of the tank almost knocking my lid off, not gonna lie, it was hillarious. Good luck and keep us updated with pics ~Trent

multipunctatus with electric cats? nice info dude. i read that electric cats are also found in lake tanganyika

 

[amazonfishman]

The multipunctatus worked great, very passive. The flavitaeniatus were more aggressive and chased the multipunctatus around a decent amount and sometimes pissed off the ecat but he would just swim at them and they would hide in the driftwood and leave him alone. I would recommend the multi's and when I redo the setup I will have a couple synodontis decorus instead of the flavitaeniatus as well after keeping them they were peaceful just like the multi's ~Trent