Frozen bloodworms get a lot of catfishes attention and promotes a very aggressive feeding response (towards the worms), mysis shrimp are another awesome thing they will love. I use Hikari sinking carnivore pellets and algae wafers for my plecos but for my other catfish its all frozen food or even l...

I would feed it anything, but not too rich in protein. It can live a very long time, therefore it will not need to grow rapidly. Rapid growth normally reduces life-expectancy. No problem when you are raising chickens in order to eat them, but a bit of a shame if it concerns animals you want to enjo...

Right now I'm feeding my baby 1 1/2" raphael Hikari sinking wafers, but I want to buy him a big variety of foods that are medium to high in protein. I'm not sure what to buy, but right now I have my eye on Hikari carnivore pellets and Ken's earthworm/catfish sticks. If anyone could list a bunch...

My Platydoras - I think they are also referred to as striped Raphael - have withstood salt in my tanks up to 3 g/l for quite a while. I kept them with central American cichlids, which can have salt, so I used it, and with South American ones, which can not. It did not seem to shorten their lives, a...

So I had a outbreak of some sort of parasite in my tank that I stupidly spread to both tanks before I knew about it, and my striped raphael is affected. He has been breathing very rapidly off and on for a few days but only today did he start flashing and I suspected parasites. He did it for quite a ...