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The eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus, is a freshwater fish native to the Murray-Darling river system of Australia. The scientific name for eel-tailed catfish comes from an aboriginal name for the fish - Tandan - which Major Mitchell recorded on his 1832 expedition.
It was originally found in most freshwater habitats of the Murray-Darling river system except for the upland, sub-alpine and alpine headwaters of southern tributaries. It is also present in speciated but undescribed forms in several east coast systems in northern New South Wales due to natural river capture events.
Eel-tailed catfish have a downturned mouth with fleshy lips surrounded by a number of "whiskers" which assist them with feeding. They are a solid, almost cylindrical, elongate fish, with the posterior half of their body tapering into a pointed eel-like tail. A continuous fin margin surrounds this tapering posterior half of the body. Their eyes are small. Colouration is variable but most commonly a mottled greyish-purple colour.
These guys can grow up to 60cm. But usually only get to 25-30cm in a Aquarium.
It was originally found in most freshwater habitats of the Murray-Darling river system except for the upland, sub-alpine and alpine headwaters of southern tributaries. It is also present in speciated but undescribed forms in several east coast systems in northern New South Wales due to natural river capture events.
Eel-tailed catfish have a downturned mouth with fleshy lips surrounded by a number of "whiskers" which assist them with feeding. They are a solid, almost cylindrical, elongate fish, with the posterior half of their body tapering into a pointed eel-like tail. A continuous fin margin surrounds this tapering posterior half of the body. Their eyes are small. Colouration is variable but most commonly a mottled greyish-purple colour.
These guys can grow up to 60cm. But usually only get to 25-30cm in a Aquarium.
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Customer Reviews
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Still great Review by The Dominator
Customer Rating Ordered 2 fish 6 months ago sadly 1 died but other is alive and happy. BE AWARE these catfish are poisonous and could really harm you so when cleaning the tank put them in a separate tank
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fantastic Review by the Dominator
Customer Rating my 2 catfish arrived in 3 days and were both alive and healthy (Posted on 23/11/11)
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fantastic Review by the Dominator
Customer Rating my 2 catfish arrived in 3 days and were both alive and healthy (Posted on 23/11/11)
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great fish Review by josephine
Customer Rating doing very well (Posted on 6/01/11)
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tandanus great fish,but be aware... Review by Lochlann
Customer Rating ours is now 10" long- watch out with smaller mouth size fish tho- they're sucked before either if them now it! A clumsy sort of fish, as they get bigger gets harder & harder to restock with smaller fish as they are inadvertantly eaten :( (Posted on 20/12/10)
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Yep - Good Service Review by Chillidude
Customer Rating Ordered 10 tandanus and they arrived, all fish alive and well. (Posted on 21/10/10)
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Great Fish, Good Service. Review by Sam
Customer Rating Fish arrived in just two days - 4 in excellent healthy condition, sadly 1 dead however live fish promptly provided a gift certificate to full amount of fish with bonus added credit.
great website, excellent communication via e-mail + track and trace
Look forward to purchasing from you again. (Posted on 21/09/10)
