My cute fishy

Oh I forgot; is he preditory? Looks like a feeder in there.. :)

He's EXTREMELY predatory. LOL any other fish you put in there, he either eats, or if it's too big, he kills and guts it for me.

Looks a nice yellow bullhead. Although he should be in a bigger tank.

there are some fish crays can live with happily... but they need to be fish who sleep at the top of the tank and don't give your cray anything to climb up on and eat them! i breed them for a wholesaler... and i have 3 crays living in a 33 gallon tank... they need approx 10 gallons each when they are being housed together... AND you have to make sure you have all the same sex living together... cause the females will kill the male is he isn't in 'breeding form'. they molt into type A and type B - one is for breeding and the other isn't... so if the male in in the wrong form... he's dinner!

my males are housed separately in 5 and 10 gallon tanks... but that's because they are p. alleni and only get 3" at full grown size... so they can tolerate a smaller tank!

but anything with a tail, or slow moving... is dinner for them! some will even eat their pleco tankmates... but just as in any critter... you can get aggressive ones and then non aggressive. we have one who won't eat a fish even if you give it to him dead!!! and others who eat anything they can catch LOL

and plants are a no no with crays as well... since they loooooove to eat them :)

i'm done with crayfish 101 - next week catfish 101 LOL hahahahaha

He's actually a brown bullhead.

He doesn't move around much.. and an 8" fish in a 3' long bowfront tank seems plenty big to me. He spends 80% of the time mushed in the corner under the filter. The other 20% of the time he's either eating or begging for food (he does a dance)

thanks for cray fish 101. i'm pretty sure the max size of mines were 3'' as well (at least that's what the people at the exotic pet store told me). as far as them climbing the plants, i would occasionally buy feeder fish for him, and i definitely saw hime on more than one occasion sitting on top of the plastic plant pretending to be a statue with his claw open... waiting patiently... needless to say, he was lonely in the 10 gallon tank.

catfish are really interesting so i'll be looking forward to catfish 101. =)