Compatibility of catfish with shrimp and snails
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:46 pm
I am setting up a special catfish tank. It is a short term display tank. I want to make sure they don't eat each other.
In this tank I have:
C. sterbai (Sterbai Cory)
C. pygmaeus (Pygmy Cory)
A. adonis (3" Adonis Catfish)
Ancistrus (Bristlenose 3" female and 4" male mated pair)
Hoplo Cat (1.5" -- no idea the species)
Glass Cats (2.5" -- may be taken out, because they are showing signs of stress)
Rineloricaria sp. (Red Lizard Catfish 2.5")
L-102 Peckoltia sp. (Snowball Plecostomus 3")
Peckoltia sp. (2.5")
Otociclus
Dysichthys sp. (Banjo Catfish 3")
I am not too worried about these fish together. However, to spice things up a bit, I would like to add red crystal shrimp that are between 1/2-3/4", and I would like to add some horned nerites. With the catfish I have selected, do you think they will eat the shrimp and snails?
I would like to add an Albino BN male that is 5", but I am afraid it would fight with the other male BN.
The tank is planted, sand bottom, driftwood, . . . I feel badly about not putting in their normal caves, but they aren't pretty. They will only be in this tank about 3 weeks. They will have two filters, a bubbler that wraps around the tank, a heater (80-82 -- they are used to this temp), and after 3 weeks they will return to their regular tanks and caves.
Thank you.
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In this tank I have:
C. sterbai (Sterbai Cory)
C. pygmaeus (Pygmy Cory)
A. adonis (3" Adonis Catfish)
Ancistrus (Bristlenose 3" female and 4" male mated pair)
Hoplo Cat (1.5" -- no idea the species)
Glass Cats (2.5" -- may be taken out, because they are showing signs of stress)
Rineloricaria sp. (Red Lizard Catfish 2.5")
L-102 Peckoltia sp. (Snowball Plecostomus 3")
Peckoltia sp. (2.5")
Otociclus
Dysichthys sp. (Banjo Catfish 3")
I am not too worried about these fish together. However, to spice things up a bit, I would like to add red crystal shrimp that are between 1/2-3/4", and I would like to add some horned nerites. With the catfish I have selected, do you think they will eat the shrimp and snails?
I would like to add an Albino BN male that is 5", but I am afraid it would fight with the other male BN.
The tank is planted, sand bottom, driftwood, . . . I feel badly about not putting in their normal caves, but they aren't pretty. They will only be in this tank about 3 weeks. They will have two filters, a bubbler that wraps around the tank, a heater (80-82 -- they are used to this temp), and after 3 weeks they will return to their regular tanks and caves.
Thank you.