Recent content by dispunky

It is certainly not the Shovelnose Catfish... He has a wide open mouth and long whiskers but not a shovelnose. And over the past year he has grown slightly but he is still only a couple of inches in length. Thanks for all your help! But it seems he will remain a mystery. And I will keep...

It's never out long enough for me to get a picture of it. He's about 2.5 inches (6.35 cm). He's striped like a tiger... blackish with orangish cream colored stripes (or vice versa?) He's got whiskers, but not quite like a cat fish, - they're long, not like the tiny whiskers of a normal cat fish.

Several months ago I bought what was being sold as a "tiger catfish" and within a few days noticed the smaller of my neon tetras disappearing (without a trace). It continued until I had only one tetra left and he was very lonely for a long time. I recently began buying neon tetras again, and...