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I am restocking my 20 gallon and I looking for some stocking suggestions. The fish that will be in there diffinatly is a Spotted Rapheal Cat. So any ideas?

Middle and Top dwellers.

That really narrows it down, doesn't it.

Sponge
PS : Give us more clues as to what you like. Active fish, colorful fish... Just asking what can I put in there with a catfish is like asking " Name me all the cars below $35,000." That's a lot of cars!!!

Last edited by Sponge_Bob at 02-Jan-2006 17:06

I dunno. That spotted raphael may be the only thing you want to keep in there. Anything else small enough to not overcrowd the tank is in danger of being consumed.

HAHAHA Sorry about that lol. Well I thinking of colorful fish, because its up stairs in my house, so it has to look attractive. I don't find the Catfish very aggresive, I don't think I have ever seen him eat. I know they come out to eat at night but he don't eat much.

Ok... colorful and fast moving ( just in case catty gets hungry )... let me think.

Ah! Harlequin rasboras are quite colorful and move fast. Might be a solution... a school of them.

Check what Cup said... He rarely talks for nothing and his advice, from experience, is always sound. I would be careful before adding anything more in there and check what Noodles told you.

CUP : You owe me $5 for saying that.

Cheers

Sponge

okay.


You could try some larger dwarf cichlids, I suppose, like bolivian rams, but I'd still be cautious.

I've seen a 5" ralphy with a full grown brochis jammed in it's mouth. True story.

I dunno. That spotted raphael may be the only thing you want to keep in there. Anything else small enough to not overcrowd the tank is in danger of being consumed.

uhm, well not exactly true. Stick with tetras or upper level livebearers like endlers. I have had endlers in the same tank as the raphael with no losses. The only fish the raphael ever did get ahold of was a small bottom feeder.

Koi

Empty chairs at empty tables, the room silent, forlorn.

You forget that most of said species hover near the ground come nightfall and that his tank is a twenty, where the aggy takes up a LOT of space. At work we have a 75 siluriforme community tank witha lone pim blochii, auchenipterids, a few mochoks (two upsies and a rapidly growing granny), a pair of scobinancistrus parsips, some unidentified siluriid at 4", and of course, the doradids: one costatus and one agamyxis. The tank is primarily fed with feeders (you wouldn't believe how many danios we go through every month). The doradids are always full bellied every month and a half I actually get to see them .