marine cats

[debbieraptors]

Anyone out there have experience with marine catfish?
I bought ten about four months ago and they slowly became very
thin and wasted away. I fed the following twice a day: brine shrimp, PE mysis shrimp, cut up shrimp, all soaked with kent garlic extreme. I still have two left that look very healthy and getting larger, but trying to analyze what happened to the others.
They are in a 75 gallon reef tank with one other clowns and cleaner shrimp. Very little bioload and water parameters are within normal range.
Deb

 

[peasly1]

you probably know,but if not..these are poisonius if you get stung..I had several and a couple also went "missing".maybe its a dominance thing..the 2 that did live grew to be 8-10 in..I have read they stress the bio-load...HTH

 

[debbieraptors]

Dear Peasley:
thanks for the reply....I have only two coral cats left...they are
very bonded to each other and look very healthy. I believe
it was a dominance factor for the others. I fed twice a day and still the others just wasted away.
Deb