I just recently purchased a nice little Electric Catfish, very awsome fish imo, although i seem to be experiencing some problems. I currently have him in a 55 gallon tank with 2 little oscars and a jewel fish. My problem is the shop I got him from told me to feed him cichlid pellets. Soo i try to feed him and all i see is the other fish in the tank eating and him hiding under his log. I called the shop and they insisted i was giving him the right food and that he would come up top to eat it. Has anyone had experiences feeding cats cichlid pellets? Should I try to feed him something els such as beefheart or worms? Please help, id sure hate this beauty to go to waste.
New Electric Catfish help.
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necrocanis;1920320; said:
yes, they told me he can get 3 feet in nature, he gets along very nice with the other fish, they keep their distance, he keeps his, but my only problem is, the oscars and jewel fish eat all the food and the feeders before my catfish gets a chance to come out for food.
Thats all I've ever fed my E-cats (cichlid pellets). If you just got it, then give it some time to adjust to the tank. Also try turning off the light when you go to feed the next time. And when they get bigger they tend to get more aggressive. I have 2 of them and the bigger one started picking on the smaller E-cat(which got moved) and eat all my barbs I had in there. The only fish it will let live with it now is a striped raphiel cat, and they share the same cave. It's like the odd couple
Big Roc;1920864; said:Thats all I've ever fed my E-cats (cichlid pellets). If you just got it, then give it some time to adjust to the tank. Also try turning off the light when you go to feed the next time. And when they get bigger they tend to get more aggressive. I have 2 of them and the bigger one started picking on the smaller E-cat(which got moved) and eat all my barbs I had in there. The only fish it will let live with it now is a striped raphiel cat, and they share the same cave. It's like the odd couple
Love him. THey are like a suasage with fins. Good luck with your's. I'd keep one, but not into species only tanks even though by all accounts jau should be kept alone, but mine's just special.
I had one about that size in that picture, got rid of it because didn't want to grow that out so it could hurt me. At that size they could give u a pretty good shock up your arm, I would hate to see what it can do at 12 inchs or bigger. I know because I was moving some stuff around his tank and he swam by my hand and zapped me. I thought there was a short in the heater then I thought about it, it was the e cat that shock me.