Falling for the some larger cats :)

[Fisto]

Bought a Chrysichthys Ornatus 2 days ago, now realising i am going to sell my central american cichlids and going te keep more and larger cats !

Made a little list of cats i really like to keep:

Megalodoras urunoscopus
Liosomadoras oncinus
Ameiurus natalis
Ameiurus melas
Sorubim lima
Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum
Perrunichthys perruno
Clarias batrachus

Most of it is not simply available but spending time looking for them is fun allready.
The last one, clarias was dircribed as a wroothless destroyer to me, is that correct?

I have a 78"x28"x31" tank, what are your thougts ?

What fish do you ppl keep with bigger cats?

Lot of questions i know but new in larger cats don't wanna make expencive errors

 

[necrocanis]

That tank assuming it's LXWXH is going to be pushing it for all those large cats. Wouldn't do at all for a large tsn. Probably be pushing it for the clarius. Megalodoras would probably get huge for that tank. Perruno if you can find a true one would outgrow it. Better bet is Leiarius longibarbus, I have yet to see a true perruno, they all end up being leiarius longibarbus due to scientific description. As for the others, that's a perfect tank for a small school of limas, the bullheads you have mentioned would work really nice in there also! I'd say go for the bull heads or limas, they both will probably never surpase 20". You'd be lucky just to get them to that size. If you do an indoor heated pond you'll be fine to keep any of those depending on what size you could make. I don't blame you for wanting to keep these, I love my cats. Good luck in your search for big cats.

 

[Fisto]

Is my info incorrest or does the Leiarius longibarbis get over 35"?
Wouldn't that make them larger then a perruno ?

Lima's and bullheads are indeed super fish

 

[necrocanis]

Leiarius longibarbus does indeed reach lengths of up to 43" in the wild. I have never seen one in aquarium much over 3'. I stand by the fact that all catfish that I have seen thus far on this site listed as Perrunicthys perruno are in fact longibarbus. I've been meaning for a while to contact some of my zoological buddies to see if there is any new info between the two species. I think that they were confused when importation first started, and thus the more common longibarbus gets labeled perruno, almost 75-90% of the time. Once someone provides me with iron clad proof that they have a perruno, I will no longer be able to state that I have never saw one in a home aquarium. The dorsal ray count is the easiest way to determine which species you have, and thus far all pics I have seen are proof positive longibarbus. Someone please prove me wrong and show us pics of a true perruno, and then I will want to know where you got it, and how I can get one! hehehe

 

[kntrygrl4lyfe]

I would say bullheads, they are really nice. I got alot of them