Animal Stories - Four-Lined Pimelodus


Animal-World Information about: Four-Lined Pimelodus

The Four-lined Pimelodus is a peaceful fish as long as its tank mates are too big for it to eat!
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Tburns - 2018-05-21
Mine is currently 35 years old and I have another that is 26. They are both in the same 90 gallon tank. They live peacefully with my torpedo barbs and my blue & rainbows.

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Elisabeth Buxo - 2004-11-27
I had one of these catfishes for 22 years.
It recently died. I dont know what their life expectancy is though.

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  • Connie McCabe - 2017-04-23
    ours is over 30 years
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Jason - 2009-06-30
My four line eats worms, feederfish, and crickets, it is 16inch long.

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  • justin - 2010-08-20
    How big of tank do you have set up?
  • jason - 2011-03-10
    Justin my catfish is dead because ick but it was a 75 and I gave feeder fial most day its was a lot of money but he was freakin huge it got ick from feeder fish.
  • jason - 2011-03-10
    I mean 14 inches but they get really big in the wild.
  • Connie McCabe - 2017-04-23
    We've had ours for over 30 years. He is in a 50 gallon tank and I'm guessing about a foot long
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jason 5 - 2009-08-18
This fish is aggresive to small fish in a large aquarium. They can grow over 27 inchs and weigh 4 pounds. They will eat small fish, but they are good with oscars until they get big.

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  • drg - 2010-08-15
    Who told you that?
  • jason - 2011-03-10
    I got missed up on redatail catfish size in a large fish tank sorry but it was over a foot I messed up I had one and it got huge.
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LoL - 2012-11-16
Four line pims are great fish for a 75 gallon or larger tank with medium size tankmates as long as you have exclent filtration. Rember to feed them a balanced diet, they espicaly love shrimp!

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Jason - 2009-06-19
My four line cat fish is 15 inches long. In the wild four line cat fish grow up to 7 feet.

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  • jason - 2011-03-10
    I messed up I don't mean 7 seven feet I mean they can get 17 inches.
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Jason - 2009-07-04
I'm getting sun catfish, four line catfish, and tiger osg. Gettincer, my four line, is 11 inch long and the sun catfish I'm getting long 8 inc long.

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Jason - 2009-06-28
Four line catfish eat cory catfish, shrimp, worms, lizards, gold fish, hamsters - they will eat what fits in their mouth.

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hey - 2009-02-02
I have recently bought a pimodella cat. I loved it so I bought another one today. They are very active fish and are a friendly fish. They get along great with my 3 angelfish and albino rainbow shark.

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meee - 2008-12-21
Mine is about 8" long and gets along real well with two 5" plecos, one 7" synodontis cat, and two 4" synodontis. These are all the catfishes in my tank. This fish doesn't get too large and is still attractive. I would love a red tail cat but they grow to 40 inches!

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