GETTING 4" Rhom (Advice please)

[ryan_wilken]

your rhom will make a snack out of your catfish's tails and even kill them after it gets use to its new home

 

[Cyberman]

How come the less well protected Plec can survive then? I've seen these often used in the same tank as a Rhom.

 

[ryan_wilken]

It's really a hit or miss, it all comes down to the personality of the fish. Some people have luck with keeping plecos or catfish with rhoms others do not. I had (key word had) a striped raphael catfish, and a pleco with my 4" rhom, they lasted around a week.

 

[Cyberman]

I'll give it a go and if I start to notice damage I'll remove them... They tend to hide 90% of the time and never move only emerging for food or at night time.


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[Cyberman]

Here's the first pics of the Rhom.... Only cost me £5.00 aswell - not bad for a fish worth over £40.00 (so I'm informed).




The 50 gallon tank

 

[Cyberman]

Incidentally, he's just eaten a Cichlid fry and has settled in pretty well.

 

[Bnasufi]

Beautiful fish

 

[Cyberman]

Cheers... How fast do these grow by the way?

 

[welsher7]

After a year most are in the 6-7" range. Then they slow way down to about one 1" maybe 2" a year.

 

[Cyberman]

so pretty much a long term thing.... I guess they live a long time aswell