White Tip Shark Catfish
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We import wild White Tip Shark Catfish, and they come to us a little thin. So we know we have to take special care of them for at least 10 days to
be sure they are eating well and not too thin before we ship them.
The picture above shows a White Tip Shark Catfish that is still a little thin and needed a couple more days of good food and care. But the fish is healthy and
feeling good, which you can confirm by looking at its fins that are held up and away from its body. A fish that is not feeling good, will clamp its fins against its body. Looking at a fish's
fins is an important way of determining the fish's health.
White Tip Shark Cats are brackish water fish that can adapt to living in either freshwater or saltwater. They live best in brackish water, which is made by adding
about one Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt to each five gallons of aquarium water. Click
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Salt.
For example, if you have a 30 gallon freshwater aquarium and you want to convert it to being a brackish water aquarium. Then first you'd calculate that 30 gallons
divided by 5 gallons is 6 Tablespoons of Aquarium Salt. So you'd add 6 Tablespoons of Aquarium Salt to the (fresh) water in your 30 gallon aquarium. A final way of restating this is to say that
brackish water has about 1 Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt per each 5 gallons of (fresh) water.
White Tip Shark Cats are energetic scavengers that constantly scour the bottom for uneaten bits of food, and in this way they help improve the water quality, but
they are not a substitute for proper aquarium maintenance. Click
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This fish is also called a Black Fin Shark Catfish, and a Columbian Shark,
and many other common
names.
Scientific Name: Hexanematichthys seemanni
For years this fish appeared in hobbyist books as Arius jordoni, which was corrected to Arius seemanni, but now the scientific name is
Hexanematichthys seemanni. Click
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Appropriate Home
An aquarium with at least 29 gallons of water, an
exterior
power filter with a BIO-Wheel, a maximum of 1/4 inch of
gravel, an
aquarium
heater adjusted to keep the water between 78 and 82 degrees F., and at least 1 Tablespoon of
Aquarium Salt per each
5 gallons of aquarium water. Click
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White Tips enjoy each others company, so it's best to keep a group of them with at least four White Tips. In a couple of years four of them should grow to a size that will
require at least a 75-gallon aquarium.
If you are thinking about buying a White Tip Shark Cat, you should first realize that they should be kept in a group with at least four white Tips, and the four of them will
eventually need a
very big aquarium with
at least 250-gallons of
water.
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Recommended Diet
Floating Flake Food for Tropical Fish. Plus an occasional treat of live Black Worms and live or frozen brine shrimp. Later when these fish are large, feed them pellet food. Click
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Compatibility
Best kept together in a group with several White Tip Sharks. White Tip Sharks are compatible with most other fish except the very
smallest fish such as Neon Tetras and the most aggressive fish. Good Tank Mates:
Archer Fish,
Monos,
Scats,
Puffers,
Needle Noses, and the
Fan Dancer Goby.
There are some other tropical fish that can tolerate Aquarium Salt and make good tank mates for White Tip Shark Catfish. Here are a few:
Plecostomus
Catfish, and Livebearers such
Platies,
Swordtails,
and
Mollies, but White Tip Sharks might eat Guppies.
White Tip Sharks are often seen in aquariums with
Neotropical Cichlids such as
Firemouths, Jack Dempseys, Pink Convicts, Black Convicts, and Texas Cichlids. But these Cichlids are not compatible with the Livebearers listed above.
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Gallery of
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Size and Lifespan
In the wild White Tips Shark Cats grow to at least 12" and possibly 16",
or even 20", but in aquariums they are rarely larger
than 6". They have a lifespan of 6 to 10 years.
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