Marble Catfish/Achara Catfish

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I absolutely love those guys! they're beautiful. They are fast growers and normally very easy to feed. I have yet to have any attitude problems from them (don't have any now but I've kept them over the years) though like any other cat with a mouth, they will eat whatever they can.
 
I have a marble achara who is about 30 inches long, I have had him for about 3 plus years. He is in a 800g pond and eats hotdogs, shrimp, sinking and floating pellets. His name is Marv.
 
I randomly came across a little 2 inch marble and tossed him into my 75 gallon tank I just started because it was such an attractive fish with neat fins and a great pattern. It has a spot under a piece of drift wood and bullies all the fish who enter his space including some smaller multipuntatas but when it is free swimming it turns into a push over. Never had a probably with it eating from pellets to ghost shrink to krill and brine shrimp. The second I drop any food into the tank it's whiskers start moving around and it goes on the hunt. It's a pig so i have to watch how much i feed it but in the 2 weeks I have had it I would say it's probably doubled in size. Great catfish but because of its max size I will unfortunately have to get rid of it once it outgrows the tank unless I decide to buy a 200 gallon.

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Welcome to MFK!

It will grow very fast, reaching 1.5'-2' in one year.

If it helps, an adult at 2' will need an 8'x4' footprint at a bare minimum, that is around 500 gal at 2' depth. Or an 8' round pond would be nice. IMHO.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
Welcome to MFK!

It will grow very fast, reaching 1.5'-2' in one year.

If it helps, an adult at 2' will need an 8'x4' footprint at a bare minimum, that is around 500 gal at 2' depth. Or an 8' round pond would be nice. IMHO.
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thebiggerthebetter said:
Welcome to MFK!

It will grow very fast, reaching 1.5'-2' in one year.

If it helps, an adult at 2' will need an 8'x4' footprint at a bare minimum, that is around 500 gal at 2' depth. Or an 8' round pond would be nice. IMHO.
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Wow really? It will grow that big that fast, geez. Well it will outgrow my 75 gallon in a few months which sucks because it's such a beautiful catfish.
 
It is a pretty cat. I cited average numbers that we as a community observe. YMMV.

The thing to keep in mind with these cats is that their maxillary barbels are unusually long, at 2' body length, they will span ~3.5'. As soon as the fish is able to touch front and back of the tank with both barbels, it will feel trapped, which will result in a flighty, stressed fish and regular wild darting around overturning and bumping everything in its path. Again, this is the usual. YMMV.
 
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