Alias: red-tailed catfish, doggie whale, pillow catfish, red-tailed cat
Scientific name: Phractocephalus hemiliopterus
Family: Catfish family
Place of origin: Widely distributed in the Amazon River basin
Water temperature: about 25 ℃ ℃
Hardness: about 5
p> Ph: around 6
Food: Prefers animal feed, especially small fish
Temperament: Ferocious (to small fish), otherwise mild
The fish has a relatively graceful appearance, with a prolonged, wide and flattened body. Above and below the mouth there are six pairs of snow-white noble white whiskers***, one of which is longer and often stretches out to the front. The fish's body color is basically three colors: gray-black on the back, snow-white on the belly, and orange-red on the caudal fin. It is also extremely well demarcated, with a large head and muzzle, a white line running from the muzzle to the tail, a carmine-red tail and dorsal fin, and bluish-black on all other fins, and an elegant body. The upper part of the eye socket is white, forming half of a white circle. The adult fish is 70 to 100 centimeters long.
This fish is easy to feed, feeding needs to have a filter, and requires separate feeding, living well in neutral or weakly alkaline soft water water quality, water temperature of about 25 ℃, the bait for live bait, fish, etc., daytime swimming action is very elegant, in the night after turning on the light, easy to be frightened up and down.