Marble Clarias Catfish

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.

Marble clarias catfish.

Members aquarium and fish pictures. 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. Big marble clarias catfish clarias catfish tank mates marble catfish marble cat fish marbled clarias catfish click here. Species marbled clarias catfish clarias batrachus.

Both animals a female albino and a male semi albino are nearly the same length with the female 41cm and male 42 cm. This is a fast growing catfish that needs space. Ph range 5 5 8 0. Temperature range 18 27 c.

Walking catfish clarias batrachus walking catfish. Adult length 50 60cm in captivity. 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. Yellow guppy being attacked by other guppies.

The wild fish is brown with a white belly and is encountered. 28 gallon rescape no adhesives. They re bulky lumps too which is why they re so popular in aquaculture. Or about three years now i have kept a pair of clarias batrachus in a 700 liters aquarium.

Of which the marbled variety is particularly popular. Pair behaviour of the walking catfish clarias batrachus by wolfgang ros. Clarias catfish are a hard bunch and from an aquarium point of view probably one of the hardest fish to get wrong. 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.