Marble Clarias Catfish

Adult length 50 60cm in captivity.

Marble clarias catfish.

Or about three years now i have kept a pair of clarias batrachus in a 700 liters aquarium. Clarias catfish are a hard bunch and from an aquarium point of view probably one of the hardest fish to get wrong. Members aquarium and fish pictures. They re bulky lumps too which is why they re so popular in aquaculture.

Current size 25cm. Ph range 5 5 8 0. Prefers a soft substrate. Big marble clarias catfish clarias catfish tank mates marble catfish marble cat fish marbled clarias catfish click here.

Temperature range 18 27 c. Species marbled clarias catfish clarias batrachus. The wild fish is brown with a white belly and is encountered. 28 gallon rescape no adhesives.

Pair behaviour of the walking catfish clarias batrachus by wolfgang ros. They fatten up fast gorging on everything you offer and quite a lot of what you don t and in next to no time they re plumped up and ready. Any tankmates must be able to take good care of themselves and should be introduced at a larger size than the clarias as the growth rate of young fish is phenomenal. Yellow guppy being attacked by other guppies.

This is a fast growing catfish that needs space. The walking catfish clarias batrachus is a species of freshwater airbreathing catfish native to southeast asia it is named for its ability to walk and wiggle across dry land to find food or suitable environments. Today at 3 11 pm. While truly it does not walk as most bipeds or quadrupeds do it has the ability to use its pectoral fins to keep it upright as it makes a wiggling motion with snakelike.