electric catfish
- Thread starter thefishofdoom
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Years ago I got one of those "sausage" looking catfish. I knew it was an electric catfish, but knew nothing about it. I had a 60 gallon, with some african cichlids. The last fish that did not die or get eaten in that tank was that sausage looking catfish.
Cool catfish though. If you don't want to feel the shock, don't touch it. OR you can have one of your "friends" do it for you.
Cool catfish though. If you don't want to feel the shock, don't touch it. OR you can have one of your "friends" do it for you.
I had one a few years back Igot it for free thats why I got it it was 13" when I got rid of it it was a cool fish until it started shocking and killing all my other fish if you get one don't touch it it really hurts
Depends. Are you looking to get said Sausage Cat because you genuinely -like- and can appreciate a fish that does not swim actively much, and is very sensitive (I have spoken with someone who once owned one of these cats, and he mentioned a time when he and his wife were fighting in the room the tank was in, and the cat would not stop shocking until they left the area. The fish had no tankmates to shock, but apparently reacted to the fight outside the glass.)?
Or...do you want a trophy fish? I talk with many people who say that they would love to own piranha, cause, like, you know, they're so nasty and can eat bones up and can eat cows whole and they're really k00l!!!!1111
If the reason is the latter, no. IF, and this is a huge IF, you have the tank needed for such an animal, and can live with devoting a very large tank to a sole catfish that tends to lay in one spot and not be very active, for years and years and years....then perhaps. I would buy a red tailed cat, house it successfully for years, and -then- move onto the more shocking fish. Pun intended.
Or...do you want a trophy fish? I talk with many people who say that they would love to own piranha, cause, like, you know, they're so nasty and can eat bones up and can eat cows whole and they're really k00l!!!!1111
If the reason is the latter, no. IF, and this is a huge IF, you have the tank needed for such an animal, and can live with devoting a very large tank to a sole catfish that tends to lay in one spot and not be very active, for years and years and years....then perhaps. I would buy a red tailed cat, house it successfully for years, and -then- move onto the more shocking fish. Pun intended.