Cory Catfish
Cory cats are a very active breed of catfish that likes to be in groups 5 or more they are always moveing around the bottom of the aquarium looking for what ever food they can find thats bin leaft. These littile catfish are easy to care for and very intresting to watch. They are great for any community aquarium all you have to do is make sure they have places to hide.
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Species- Corydoras_Adolfil
Common Name- Adolfo Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
Rare Species/hard to find
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Species- Corydoras_Aeneus
Common Name- Bronze Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species-Corydoras_Aeneus_Albino
Common Name-Albino Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_agassizii
Common Name- Agassizii's Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 Inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Ambiacus
Common Name- Spotted Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Arcuatus
Common Name- Skunk Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Amatus
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallon
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Species- Corydoras_Atropersonatus
Common Name- Fairy Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Aurofrenatus
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Axelrodi
Common Name- Axelrodi's Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Bilineatus
Common Name- San Juan Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_bondi
Common Name- Black Stripe Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_brevirostris
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Caudimaculatus
Common Name- Tail Spot Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
Species- Corydoras_Cervinus
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Concolor
Common Name- Slate Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Condispiculus
Common Name- Long Nose Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Copei
Common Name- Copei Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Davidsands
Common Name- Sand's Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species-Corydoras_Delphax
Common Name- False Blochi Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Duplicareus
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
Species-Corydoras_Ehrhardti
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Elegans
Common Name- Eleagnt Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Temperment
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras-ephippifer
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_Fowleri
Common Name- Flowler's Cory
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
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Species- Corydoras_gomezi
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
Species- Corydoras_geoffroy
Care Level- Easy
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult Size- 2-3 inches
Tank Size- 5 gallons
Large Catfish
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Species- Pimelodus pictus
Common name- Pictus catfish
Care level- easy
temperment- Semi aggressive
Adult size- 6 inches
Tank size- 30 gallons
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Species- Pimelodella gracillis
Common name- Slender pimelodella
Care level- Moderate
Temperment- Semi aggressive
Adult size- 8 inches
Tank size- 55 gallons
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Species- Pimelodus maculatus
Common name- Spottoed pimelodus
Care level- Moderate
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult size- 10 inches
Tank size- 55 gallons
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Species- Leiarus marmoratus
Common name- Marbeld catfish
Care level- moderate
temperment- semi aggressive
Adult size- 24 inches
Tank size- 200 gallons
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Species- Chaca - chaca
Common name- Frogmouth catfish
Care level- Modrate
Temperment- aggressive
Adult size- 8 inches
Tank size- 55 gallons
information- The Frog mouth catfish should only be housed with fish that are going to be to big to fit into his mouth otherwise they may become a snack!.
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Species- Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
Common name- Redtail catfish
Care level- Hard
Temperment- semi aggressive
Adult size- 24 inches
Tank size- 200 gallons
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Species- Platystomatichthys sturio
Common name- Sturgeon catfish
Care level- Hard
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult size- 16 inches
Tank size- 80 gallons
Information- The Sturgeon catfish can be kept in groups or single. It can also be kept with other species of fish as long those fish are 5 inches or bigger or they might become food.
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Species- Pseudopimelodus zungaro bufonius
Common name- Black banded marbled catfish
Care level- Moderate
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult size- 7 inches
Tank size- 30 gallons
Information- This species of catfish is nocturnal and prefer to be kept single. This species will eat smaller fish if given the chance.
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Species- Sorubim lima
Common name- Shovel-Nose Catfish
Care level- hard
Temperment- Semi aggressive
Adult Size- 8 inches
Tank Size- 55 gallons or bigger
Information- This species of catfish needs lots of hiding place. They also will only eat live food and should only be housed with tank mates of the same size.
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Species- Hemisorubim platyrhynchos
Common name- Spotted Shovelnose Catfish
Care level- moderate
Temperment- Semi aggressive
Adult size- 14 inches
Tank size- 55 gallons or bigger
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Species- Brachyplatystoma tigrinum
Common name- Zebra shovelnose catfish
Care level- modrate
Temperment- Semi aggressive
Adult size- 24 inches
Tank size- 80 gallons
Information- well eat fish that fits into it's mouth.
Rare & very exspensive
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Species- Ompok eugeneiatus
Common name- Borneo Glass Catfish
Care level- Moderate
Temperment- Peaceful
Adult size- 7 inches
Tank size 55 gallons or bigger
Information- This species of catfish needs well filterd water and should not be caught with a net.
Synodontis Catfish
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Species- Synodontis Nigrita
Common name- False upside-down catfish/Lace catfish
Care level- Easy
Temperment- Semi aggressive
Adult size- 7 inches
Diet- Flakes/frozen/live foods
Habitat- An aquarium witha soft substrate and some rocks and driftwood to create hideing places.
Tank size- 55 gallons
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Species- Synodontis alberti
Common name- Big eye squeaker
Care level- Easy
Temperment- peaceful
Adult size- 6-7 inches
Diet- flakes/live food
Habitat- Well planted aquarium with some rocks and drift wood to provide hideing places and a fine gravel or sand substrate.
Tank size- 29 gallons
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Species- Synodontis angelica
Common name- Angel squeaker
Care level- easy
Temperment- semi aggressive
Adult size- 7-8 inches
Diet- algae/flake food
Habitat-Well planted aquarium with some rocks and drift wood to provide hideing places and a fine gravel or sand substrate.
Tank size- 55 gallons
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Species- Synodontis aterrima
Common name- Squeaker catfish
Care level- easy
Temperment- peaceful
Diet-Flakes/frozen/live foods
Habitat- Well planted aquarium with some rocks and drift wood to provide hideing places and a fine gravel or sand substrate.
Tank size- 29 gallons
Species- Synodontis batesii
Common name- Dwarf synodontis
Care level- easy
Temperment- peaceful
Adult size- 3 - 4 inches
Habitat- Well planted aquarium with some rocks and drift wood to provide hideing places and a fine gravel or sand substrate.
Diet- Flake/frozen/live foods
Tank size- 20 gallons
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Species- Synodontis brichardi
Common name- Brichardi's synodontis
Temperment- peaceful
Adult size- 5-6 inches
Diet- Flake/frozen/live foods
Habitat- Well planted aquarium with some rocks and drift wood to provide hideing places and a fine gravel or sand substrate.
Tank size- 30 gallons
Please note: do not house with more territorial synodontis species.
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Species- Synodontis congica
Common name- congo synodontis
Care level- easy
Temperment- peaceful
Adult size- 6 - 7 inches
Diet- flakes/frozen/live foods
Habitat- Well planted aquarium with some rocks and drift wood to provide hideing places and a fine gravel or sand substrate.
Tank size- 55 gallons
