From the article: Upside Down Catfish
Have you kept a Upside Down Catfish? If so, share your experiences about care, habitat, feeding and breeding of Upside Down Catfish. Your knowledge could help other owners! Share Your Experiences
upside down catfish
- This cat is one off the coolest fish I have in my tank.....they are not aggressive very snotty ....normally you find them hiding them behind the rocks. but when you feed your fish they would come out with in seconds, as if they knew the food was on the way....I have 4 of them they are very small. they feed well...
- —Guest prem
Love my "kitty"!
- I have had an upside down catfish for about a year now and she is my favorite fish. She (pretty sure she's a she, she's pale and has a bit of a tummy) spends most of her time hiding in this house we have in the tank. About 7 months ago, she "disappeared". My boyfriend said he looked everywhere for her and found no sign of her body in the tank which I found weird. I was a little upset. Well, we got two other different kinds of catfish and we were cleaning the tank 4 weeks after she disappeared and this dragon thing in our tank that has holes underneath got knocked over. We were about to go out when I see a fish swimming erraticly and I realized it was her!! She was freaked out, but she was still alive, I was shocked! She lived underneath that dragon for a month. She's a very hardy fish!!! We have her and a few other fish in a 50 gallon tank. She survived a move in a bucket for over a day (the tank was a mess!!) and in a kitchen sink when we were having tank problems. Awesome fish!!!!
- —Guest Christina
Good
- I've had 3 USDCF for a little over 3 years. They've lived peacefully with my Plecostomus and guppies the entire time. Never had any problems.
- —Guest Kaitlyn
Strangely...
- My upside-down catfish has a strange mind. He's with 5 goldfish, 5 japanese fish, 1 weather loach, and 1 golden loach. He strangely is attacking my fish. this happened after 10 fish arrived in the tank. As I write this, it's only his first day...
- —Guest WHOAWHOA
Upside-Down Catfish
- I've had an upside-down catfish for about 5 years. He's in a 29gallon community tank with another catfish, 2 coolie loaches, 3 large angelfish, 3 rainbow fish,a mollie, a guppy and a guarami.The tank has lots of plants and a big hollow log that the catfish hang out in. The setup was given to me and the only thing I've changed is to add more plants.In the future I plan on getting rid of the rainbow fish and the other little fish and just keeping the angelfish. My upside-down catfish doesn't bother any of my other fish, he just hangs out in the log with the other catfish, who is twice his size.
- —Samsmom94
Don't!
- I got one of these (oh yes they stay small) no they don't. I pestered my lovely plec that I bought at the same time and it was dead over a weekend. I have had this fish for about 6 years and it has lived on its own all that time. It's happy being alone, I've never risked any further fish in with it. So much for a lovely community tank
- —Guest Rachel
Apples and Oranges
- The truth is that the term "Upside Down Catfish" is used by fish sellers to describe several different types of Synodontis. What one person claims to be a "upside down catfish" could be a completely different variety than the next. The true specie name of the fish is the only way to be sure that the information you guys are sharing is clear. The original, good community tank member of upside down catfish is called "Synodontis nigriventris". Google nigriventris if you are unsure of the type of fish that you have... I would bet that most of you have a different specie- especially considering your fish are growing so large!
- —Guest Mike Fishfreak
With Black Mollies and Swordtails
- I have my upside down catfish in with my black mollies and my velvet wag swordtails. I'm a beginner at this. Are the upside down catfish going to take over my tank or what? A little help please?? Right now all the little cute things do is hang out in my pirate ship or treasure chest and hide. Should I be concerned?
- —Guest Amy
Upside down with Jack Dempsey
- My syno is larger than the 3 - 4 inches mentioned, more like 5. He lives with a year old Jack at the mo. The only time there is any aggresion shown is when the syno and Jack both eat at the same time. I have various syno's with Blue and normal Jacks in different tanks. I like syno's because of their "who cares" attitude. They don't give a monkeys about the Jacks. Although they get pushed about (literally)they just don't seem to care.
- —Guest nerebus
upside down catfish ate my fish.
- I saw the upside down catfish at walmart and asked the associate if he knew anything about them. He told me that the catfish would get along with my Neon Tetras but not with my Beta. The Beta and my Neons get along ok (10 Gallon tank, the beta chases the other fish but doesn't hurt them). After having my catfish for a week, I noticed that my Beta's feathers were getting really short and I had lost most of my Neons. (No sign of them, just gone.) After pulling out the beta and the catfish I relieazed that the Catfish was eating my Neon tetras at night. He also wound up killing my Beta. I have him now in a one gallon tank with a cave and he seems to be ok.
- —Guest chrtok
I had....
- I had a upside down catfish in each of my last two tanks. I had a skull the catfish liked to stay in. I tried many different type of fish and they seemed to do best with tricolored sharks. The size of my aquarium was a 45 gallon hex and I had about 3 tri colors and 1 upside down at any one time. They really got large as the years went by. The upside down was larger than the suggested 3-4 inches, of course this is after a long time a couple years and the tri colors I have seen in larger aquariums the size of small trout. The got larger than 4 inches in my 45 hex.
- —Pennace
upside down catfish
- I have 2 upside down catfish in my tank and they dont attack any of my other fish. They have hasseled them but not since I put a log/cave ornament in there
- —Guest monkey
Sly attackers
- I have found my little catfish to be a sly attacker of my goldfishes fins. He layes low all day, hiding in his castle, come out at night, hides in the bushes, then attacks the fins of the goldfish as they swim by. Their fins are very short now and I am looking for a new home for him. Beware of these cute little things, not so compatible with all fish.
- —Guest fishergirl
Upside down Catfish Problem
- I bought this fish to accompany my Betta. I figured my Betta was going to be a problem trying to adjust to this fish, so I decided to get another fish around the same size. Problem is the upside down catfish keeps attacking my beta. Huh! I also read about the catfish supposed to be a peaceful fish, a good community fish, not so with a Betta.
- —Guest girltown
Watch Out for Up-side down Catfish!!
- I went to the local fish store and these interesting fish caught my eye. I did my research on the fish before I bought it. Everyone said they were a good community fish. Yet every morning I woke up another one of my top swimmers were dead. Come to find out these catfish feed on insects on the top of the water at night time. Thats when I put 2 and 2 together and realized it was the catfish, once I removed the fish and all the killings stopped, So I just wanted to let anyone know who was interested in these fish to be carefull before buying. I lost 5 fish in a week. I gave the catfish to my neighbor who has a cichlid tank and they are getting along just fine.
- —Guest ambsnebbs
