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Channallabes apus (Günther, 1873) |
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Hippocampus Bildarchiv (3) Ben Lee (5) Christian Bode (2) Thomas Kobe (1) Cheilinus Aquarium Photography (1) |
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Aquarium Care: Nocturnal and will need hiding places in the aquarium. Choose co-habitants carefully as they can be predatory. This is a nocturnal species and ideally should be housed in a dimly lit tank no less than 4ft long with hiding places and a soft substrate such as sand or small rounded gravel, as it likes to burrow into the substrate, so there should be no sharp edges there to scar its soft body parts. The thumbnail image captioned "The perfect setup" shows the ideal conditions for the "Eel Catfish". They do like to socialise with their own so three or four specimens would get on well together. Diet: Tablet food, and any larger live foods such as earth worms, and frozen foods such as bloodworm. |
Common Name: |
Eel Catfish |
Synonyms: |
Gymnallabes apus |
Family: |
Clariidae |
Distribution: |
Africa: Angola to Congo River Basin. Type locality: Interior of Ambriz, Angola. |
Size: |
30.5cm. (12¼ins) |
Temp: |
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22-25°C (71-77°F) |
p.H. |
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6.5-7.8. |
Reference: |
Baensch, H.A. and R.
Riehl 1985 Aquarien
atlas. Band 2. Mergus, Verlag für Natur- und
Heimtierkunde GmbH, Melle, Germany. 1216 p.
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