Into your catfish? Check out this selection of rarities spotted on a recent shoptour, beginning with the beauty below — a fish we think someone should snap up for the ultimate river biotope.
A while back, the guys over at German aquarium megastore Panta Rhei set up a tank that was several metres of steep, rocky downhill slope, powered by a pump that went off like a fireman’s hose. I’m just sowing seeds here, but someone in the UK really needs to copy that and buy these fish to put in it.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Practical Fishkeeping.
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