I've got a friend whos got a 6" Perruno catfish, and he says i can have it off him for free, what i want to know is how big these guys get and what are they like to keep? he would live with a Niger and 2 Limas.
Perruno catfish
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They are pretty laid back - hanging around their favorite cave, but get huge and would make short work of the limas with time. I personally like the dark on dark markings. 6 inches is hard to come by. Usually they're already 15 inches plus.
I think 2 foot range... not exactly sure. I see "LFS dropoffs" at around 15 - 18 inches quite frequently.
Okay, my mate isn't sure whether it's a perruno or a marbled Pim, so i'm gonna have to go and have a look at it and see.santoury;1157358; said:
BWB I have a Leirius Marmoratus who is 26" and he is in my Oddball community with other cats (Niger, Giraffe, Lge Synos, Plecos) as well as a Giant Gourami and a number of cichlids. The only thing he ate were lemon barbs (as did my peacock Bass) and funnily enough (not funny as in amusing!!!) a Sorubim Lima.
The photo of them is in my Gallery thing (technical term lol)
I also have a 12" Sciades Pictus who again is pretty good and has left alone the lemon/tinfoil barbs up to now. He is kept in one of those tanks that was in the shop window in Mission Impossible!!
The photo of them is in my Gallery thing (technical term lol)
I also have a 12" Sciades Pictus who again is pretty good and has left alone the lemon/tinfoil barbs up to now. He is kept in one of those tanks that was in the shop window in Mission Impossible!!
Thanks for the Info guys, my LFS says his friend has a 18" Marbled pim that he's selling for a £10. I'm gonna go and have a look at this beast tommorrow.
DJC776;1157677; said:
I'd say that %99 or more of the cats that everyone calls perruno are actually Leiarius longibarbus(formerly marmoratus). That's what they have been sold as since they were first imported and because the importers didn't properly check anatomical features to ensure the species people have been confused every since. Leiarus longibarbus has 12-13 soft dorsal fin rays, and perrunicthys perruno has 9-11 soft dorsal fin rays. longibarbus gets slightly larger, but not by much. I think in the future we may see these species combined as there is much confusion, and further genetic testing is combining and seperating catfish species all the time. Just look at all the rearrangement of the pimlodidae family in the past 5 years.