Pictus catfish

[Fdsh5]

So I read online that the barbs of the Pictus catfish can hurt. Well after a month in one tank, I brilliantly decided to move them to another less planted tank. They kept uprooting my plants when they swam through. Anyway I got three of them easy enough and the last one freaked out in the net. I was trying to help him out and wham, he got me. Wow, that hurt. On the bright side though. I heard him chirp. I knew they did it but never heard them in the tank. It was pretty cool.

 

[Morgie]

I've got a scar on my hand from when I moved my four line pictus. Hurt worse than jellyfish, but less than stingray. ;]
I used to hear mine chirp at night, it was so weird.

And it hurt so badly because pictus cats are poisonous haha. Took mine forever to heal up properly.

 

[siva]

Morgie I'm scared to ask, but why do you know about the jellyfish and stingray!?

 

[Morgie]

I live at the beach and have been attacked by about every kind of sea life you can think of LOLS. My family are all surfers/pilots/crazy adventurers, so we get into all kind of fun trouble.

 

[spoonman]

You have to be careful also that they dont get their fins caught in the net. I had one swimming around with little green sqares on their fins where I had to cut them out of the net. It was horrible. They got the little peices of net off in about a week.