Saturday, 15 February 2020

Banjo Catfish for sale at joes aqua world


The Banjo Catfish is an excellent scavenger that has a unique appearance and a very small mouth for a catfish. It is also one of the charmingly laziest fish around!

Looking for something unique to add to your aquarium, but don't want to overspend on something exotic?  Look no further than the Banjo Catfish!  Their banjo-like shape, attractive coloration, and horn-like projections make these fish one of the most unusual-looking specimens we have to offer.  Also called the Two Colored Banjo Catfish, Bicolor Banjo Catfish, and Guitarrita (meaning 'little guitar'), this catfish is popular because of its strange appearance.  It has a wide, flat head and a long, slender body, so it is shaped much like a banjo guitar.  The body is mostly a light tan color with dark brown (almost black) splotches along its tail, and the whole fish is speckled with lighter colored dots.  Additionally, this fish has little horns, or spines, protruding from various places along the body.

These catfish are nocturnal bottom-dwellers, so they will be seen only rarely during the day.  It is a very sedentary fish, so it does not need a large area in which to swim around; this makes it a great addition to any size tank.  It can also live peacefully with all sizes and types of other fish, making it perfect for community tanks.  This is a bottom-dwelling species, and these catfish are very useful for eating leftover food and thereby keeping the bottom of your tank clean.

arapima fish for sale 6 inches joes aqua world

Also known as the paiche or the pirarucu, the arapaima is an air-breathing fish that plies the rain forest rivers of South America's Amazon Basin and nearby lakes and swamps. One of the world's largest freshwater fish, these giants can reach 9 feet (2.75 meters) long and weigh up to 440 pounds (200 kilograms). They have a wide, scaly, gray body and a tapered head.
Though arapaimas can stay underwater for 10 to 20 minutes, they tend to remain near the water's surface, where they hunt and emerge often to breathe with a distinctive coughing noise. They survive mainly on fish but are known 

adonis l 155 pleco for sale joes aqua world


Acanthicus adonis, the adonis pleco or polka dot lyre-tail pleco, is a large species of armored catfish. It was originally described from the lower Tocantins River in Brazil, but individuals resembling the species have also been recorded from Amazonian Peru. The species is occasionally seen in the aquarium trade,  These fish are opportunistic omnivores.
This gorgeous and rare pitch black pleco is quite slender in relation to it’s body length. Although they may appear to be delivate when young, as they grow up, they become much more robust. Small specimens have spots over the whole body. Spots may become relatively smaller and fewer in number with growth. Adults can grow pectoral fins in excess of 15 cm in length giving a remarkable look! Acanthicus adonis is distinguished by having a more pointy vs. rounded snoutolor differences. This is not a dwarf pleco, but considered a larger species and a superb display fish for large aquariums or public aquaria. This is a very easy fish to grow and NOT difficult to care for at all!


FeedingVery much a generalist or opportunist feeder, this species is happy with most good quality aquarium foods, and will also eat many other foods as offered to other loricariid catfish, from fruit and vegetables through to molluscs, crustaceans and even pieces of fish. They do graze wood, although whether this is a requirement or whether it is just as part of their general grazing is not known.
decosRobust! Large pieces of bogwood, branch wood etc. are ideal. Rock work should be heavy enough so that an adult fish cannot knock them around, this means nothing smaller than a house brick. The best substrate is by far an inert sand.
CompatibilityTo keep more than one individual would require a huge aquarium. A single adult male can easily be the most dominant fish in a 1000 gallon aquarium with other large neotropical fish, and other catfish housed with one need to be robust. There should be ample refuges for all the catfish, as when this fish decides to take one over it will regardless of whether the rightful owner is present or not. Care should probably be taken not to house them with other highly competitive loricariids such as Pseudacanthicus etc., as this is likely to result in serious injuries or death to one or both fish.

One specimen was observed to have killed a very large P. gibbiceps by stripping the skin from the fish when it tried to escape into a refuge that was too small.