?? smaller active cat for 30-gallon riparium setup.

[trojan09]

very nice its gonna look like a amazon themed tank if your gonna put pictus and some tetras. that would look awsome!

 

[hydrophyte]

Do I have to worry about the pictus preying on small tetras?

 

[pbass lover]

there was a riparium in one of the aquariums i went to with pictus and it look amazing

 

[trojan09]

from my experience they didnt eat any of my tetras. i use to keep them with a school of neon tetras.

 

[hydrophyte]

Thanks. Now I just need to select a tetra and maybe also a cichlid.

 

[Fishdude401]

I might be careful with the Pictus and Tetra, mainly because the pictus is a fish with a wide mouth and in many of the profiles that are provided on the internet they mention being careful with small fish+pictus catfish= dead tetras

If you are confident, I recommend a larger tetra like a School of Congo or Serpae tetras ( personally, Congo )

 

[~ocean]

congos are good... if you wanted aggresive tetras try bucktoothed tetra...

~ocean

 

[Fishdude401]

Buckedtooth tetras are like mini-piranhas, they are very predatory, not good for most tanks.

 

[~ocean]

yeah I know... they are best in a shoal of their own species only...

~ocean

 

[hydrophyte]

Thanks for all of these additional observations.

Really I don't know if there will be room for tetras anyway. I remembered that I also wan tot have a group of a half-dozen oto cats for algae control. It might get to be too crowded with tetras also. I would like the tank to be more like a species setup anyway.