Clarias
angolensis Steindachner, 1866
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| Reinhold
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Aquarium Care:
Tank for fully-grown catfishes 200 litres for individual keeping,
and for socialisation at least 400 litres. Best you take dark
soil, stable plants and at least a big cave. The aquarium must
still be protected well, weigh the lid down (walking catfish!!).
The oxygen is not a strong filtration so this is not too important.
Gill bag catfishes are also diurnal, they accumulate, however,
to the top of the water at night. The substrate is searched continuously
for food and is ploughed constantly. Room temperature, 15-30 °
without problems. These catfishes are not interested in water
values at all. When keeping them one should take their gluttony
into account. Food tablets green and brown, great flakes, pellets
of trout, beef heart, food fish to 10 cm and mussel meat is taken
away from you by fully-grown specimens with great pleasure. In
the wild it inhabits rivers, lakes and swamps. Feeds on a variety
of food like algae, plants, Hydracarina, larvae of Ephemeroptera,
Chironomidae, Ceratopogonidae, remains of remains (Coleoptera)
and fish remains (Cichlidae, Anabantidae) |
| Common
Name: |
Angolan Walking
Catfish |
| Synonyms: |
Clarias brevinuchalis,
Clarias confluentus
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| Family: |
Clariidae
blycipitidae |
| Distribution: |
Africa:
Lower and Central Congo River system. Type locality:
Angola. |
| Size:
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35cm.
(14ins) |
| Temp: |
23-28°C
(73-83°F) |
| p.H. |
6.5-8.0. |
| Reference: |
ScotCat Article
no 95. Our
house catfish,
Clarius
angolensis
Froese,
R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2009. FishBase.World Wide Web
electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (10/2009). |
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Family:
Clariidae
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angolensis
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angolensis
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angolensis
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angolensis
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