hello a few questions

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wwlod246

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hey my name is weronika and im new to the site.. i currently have a 35 gallon hex freshwater aquarium containing 2 red parrots, 2 golden severum, and a small pleco. im kinda new to this stuff but ive read bout fish tanks for a yr. be4 actually getting one. i originally wanted a brackish water tank but i must of set it up like 3 times wit no fish and it failed be4 i could ever get any fish. so recently i went 2 the lfs and got a fish they called the blue shark. online i found it is actually known as a blue whale catfish and tends to be agressive unlike the fish store told me. but im willing to get a bigger tank prob a 75-100 gallon tank. but what would i keep with it? and it hasn't eaten much wut could i feed it? :)
 
get atleast a 75 for the fish you already have. the cat should do as well as you can hope to have a cat do with cichlids. it could eat them if it grows too much faster than them. maybe not. hope for the best.
 
Blue whale catfish?
As in this guy?
cetopsis_coecutiens_2.jpg

If so, forget keeping it with anything. They eat small fish, and BRUTALLY disembowel and/or eat its way inside the body of larger fish..
 
i believe this is the fish referred to.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=339

sounds about right for a catfish. they like to eat, eat, eat, and eat. a little harder to keep than some cats, but a decent overall size. a 75 would be on the small side you'd be better with a 6' tank like a 125. have enough cover for the other fish to hide from it, and if it eats them, get a Megalodoras irwini as a tank mate.
 
''Its natural adult behaviour is to bite lumps out of larger deep river channel fish''
Doesn't sound like a good mixer to me.
 
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