Which Cats Should I growout?

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divemaster99

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I was planning on turning my 75 into an all catfish tank but I have nowhere to put my cichlids now and want to keep them. So current stock is 2 cutteri cichlids, 6 giant danios, 1 striped raph, and 1 gibbiceps pleco I'm growing out. I'd love to get a few more cats since I'm understocked and already made a nice "Catfish-Condo" as I'll call it :). I don't want to overstock but I'd like a few more. Some ones I was thinking of were Parauchenoglanis ngamensis, Synodontis angelicus, and Bagrichthys macracanthus. I was also considering a few other cats that I could growout for a few months then sell back since I have already discussed with LFS owners and gpasi members about having someone to take any growout fish I may have. The growout catfish could be a Giraffe Cat, a Channel Cat, a Brown Bullhead, a granulosus, and a few others (obviously I'd just get one monster cat with two at the max at a time).

Tank specs are. Temperature 75-78 F (set on 76), ph 7.6, filtration is a fluval 406, water changes are 50% every 1-2 weeks.

What are your thoughts MFK?
 
Feel free to suggest other catfish if you want. I'm open to everything from corydoras to the larger more aggressive cats (just no plecos since my gibby will make his point that he has to be the sole pleco in the tank).
 
Giraffe Cat, a Channel Cat, a Brown Bullhead, a granulosus are all cool catfish, but all of these get huge, (I dont know about the Brown Bullhead, but isnt it something like 2 feet?) and would outgrow the 75g, (If you i remember correctly you have a 180g, but planned, but they would all outgrow that too.)
I was planning on getting a Pseudopimelodus bufonius but i read they get very aggressive, and take fish up to half their own size, maybe they would be an option for you? :D
Good luck.
 
Brown Bullheads normally level off at around 16-18". You're right about them all getting to big but I have people that could take them.
 
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