#hoplosternum litorale

[floridafishkeeper]

Big cat lil cat.

[floridafishkeeper]

Sometimes you're climbing around in tunnels under the highway and you find The Horde. A writhing mass of walking catfish, brown hoplo catfish, and snow queen plecostomus. All invasive here in Florida. I managed to score two hoplo catfish, hoplosternum litorale, for my cichlid tank.

[floridafishkeeper]

Well it was going to be a picture of an olive nerite and native banded mystery snail but the hoplo is a total attention whore. Hoplosternum litorale is a cool species though, extremely intelligent catfish and very peaceful for their size. They're essentially a big cory, a very big cory.

[floridafishkeeper]

A brown hoplo( hoplosternum litorale) and a spotted hoplo (megalechis picta) chilling out in the medium catfish tank.

[floridafishkeeper]

The hoplosternum litorale I brought back and added to the invasive tank. I have a few larger tanks for various cichlids and medium sized catfish. I put these guys at 8-9" each. Absolute units. Blessedly these guys adapt to captivity readily and there's always people looking to home them.