Bumble Bee Catfish
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Not for your mbuna tank I assume?
You will probably find one of two fish sold as a 'bumblebee' - the asian or the south american, most probably the latter. Both are very secretive and you'll see them more after lights out. Will feed on bloodworm, small pellets and flake, both will take small fish if give the chance, the former being a larger adult fish may not be ideal to keep with small tetras etc. The latter is generally small enough not to be a problem.
As a side note, you may be unlucky (or lucky, depends on how you see it) to get sold one of the larger pseudopimelodus, which will eat anything they can fit in their large mouths, but this is very unusual and are normally sold as the correctly ID'd fish.
I would suggest keeping several of the south americans (depending on your tank size), but only one of the asian due to it being larger and slightly more active.
HTH
Martin
You will probably find one of two fish sold as a 'bumblebee' - the asian or the south american, most probably the latter. Both are very secretive and you'll see them more after lights out. Will feed on bloodworm, small pellets and flake, both will take small fish if give the chance, the former being a larger adult fish may not be ideal to keep with small tetras etc. The latter is generally small enough not to be a problem.
As a side note, you may be unlucky (or lucky, depends on how you see it) to get sold one of the larger pseudopimelodus, which will eat anything they can fit in their large mouths, but this is very unusual and are normally sold as the correctly ID'd fish.
I would suggest keeping several of the south americans (depending on your tank size), but only one of the asian due to it being larger and slightly more active.
HTH
Martin
i have a 30 gallon whitch i am setting up for south american. just thinking about different stocking options.
bassbonediva
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I have a SA bumblebee cat named Grover. He's in my 29gal community tank (with seven tiger barbs, four peppered cories, three otos and a BN pleco). He is the most adorable thing (next to my horseface loach). He is very secretive, but he comes out at feeding time, even before I turn out the lights. He's like a little vacuum cleaner...even better than the cories! He was a random, impulse buy from Walmart (they sold him as a striped raphael cat...which he is VERY obviously not) and I wouldn't take him back for the world. If I wasn't stocked on bottom feeders already for my 55gal, I'd get one for that tank, but with a featherfin cat, three angelicus botia and a horseface loach, I'm pretty well covered. lol
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