I am starting to plan a new setup and looking for stocking suggestions. THe tank setup is going to be something like this with emersed aquatic plants in the above water area.
That 120-gallon tank is only about 1/3 full, but for this new setup I plan to use a 40-gallon breeder and fill it most of the way to the top. I intend to have a nice open foreground area with space for a single bottom-dweller or group to swim around.
I already started a thread with this idea over in the General forum (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283878), but I move it over here because I am gravitating toward using a catfish as the most prominent fish in the tank. I might just make it a species tank, or include a group of some small shoaling species to swim around in the middle of the water column, if I can find a catfish that is not overly predatory on smaller fish. I have wondered about using a good-sized group of some kind of cory, although I am more inclined to try something new. I really like the look of Synodontis. It seems, however, that the smaller species are hard to come by. S. polli is very attractive, but it is a rift valley species. I would prefer to use a South America or West Africa catfish to better pair with some of the plants that I have for a quasi-biotope.
Does anybody have any other ideas for a small, active and diurnal catfish for this setup? I would really appreciate any suggestions for species and sources too.
That 120-gallon tank is only about 1/3 full, but for this new setup I plan to use a 40-gallon breeder and fill it most of the way to the top. I intend to have a nice open foreground area with space for a single bottom-dweller or group to swim around.
I already started a thread with this idea over in the General forum (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283878), but I move it over here because I am gravitating toward using a catfish as the most prominent fish in the tank. I might just make it a species tank, or include a group of some small shoaling species to swim around in the middle of the water column, if I can find a catfish that is not overly predatory on smaller fish. I have wondered about using a good-sized group of some kind of cory, although I am more inclined to try something new. I really like the look of Synodontis. It seems, however, that the smaller species are hard to come by. S. polli is very attractive, but it is a rift valley species. I would prefer to use a South America or West Africa catfish to better pair with some of the plants that I have for a quasi-biotope.
Does anybody have any other ideas for a small, active and diurnal catfish for this setup? I would really appreciate any suggestions for species and sources too.
