Heres a pic of the little guy in the bag when I brought him home.It was a good day for cheap monsters,Im still kicking mysels for letting someone else take the 20" shovelnose for $17,redbelly ps for $1
Electric catfish
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nice man, i love mine. its about 9" now and i was keeping it in with my oscars and RD buy my 'O's started to breed so now its in a different tank. i had a couple incodents where he paralized a JD of about 6" and a electric blue at about 4" but both recovered after about a week. they say at like a foot and longer yuo talking up to 350 volts , but at the size of mine its about like touching one of those novelty lighters that shock you, its a jolt but not anything serious. mine is super active though and will eat earthworms out of my hand and he loves freeze dried bloodworms. id eventually like to make an indoor pond for this guy just to trick visitors into touchin it
lol I got a niece who likes to mess with the fish when she comes over,if the bloody finger from oscar last time didnt deter her maybe this guy will.
<<--- I was the one keeping it with synodontis catfish. From what I've read they are the only fish immune to the shock. Don't keep it with most knife fish because they have a mild electrical output that will be detected by the E cat and they will be toast. There have been many other people keeping them with tank mates, some succesfull and some not so much...
I have a big thread on it somewhere in the depths of MFK with pics and more info but the setup was a 55 with 3 syno multipunctatus 2 syno flavitaeniatus and a 10-11" e cat all was going to be upgraded soon to a 100 but had a bad tank crash when I was out of town one weekend and came back to find all my fish dead. I can't wait to pick up another one. Blood worms and nightcrawlers also work great for food ~Trent
I have a big thread on it somewhere in the depths of MFK with pics and more info but the setup was a 55 with 3 syno multipunctatus 2 syno flavitaeniatus and a 10-11" e cat all was going to be upgraded soon to a 100 but had a bad tank crash when I was out of town one weekend and came back to find all my fish dead. I can't wait to pick up another one. Blood worms and nightcrawlers also work great for food ~Trent
Thanks amazonfishman A tank full of synodontis cats and this guy sounds great,Ill start collecting them
