Spotted Marble Amazon Gar (Boulengerella maculata) Short Body big catfish

big catfish

also known as the striped wallago catfish

It is peaceful and will keep your tanks clean of left over foods

a soft substrate is necessary for this fish

Spotted Marble Amazon Gar (Boulengerella maculata) Short Body big catfishWhen is a gar not a gar? When its really more of a tetra like with the Marbled Gar. Though it shares a comparable body shape with the true gars, this is the result of these two unrelated fishes having a similarly predatory lifestyle. Both skulk about slowly near the surface of the water, picking off any unwary fish that ventures too closely. But, while the true gars are of an ancient evolutionary stock, Boulengerella is actually a characiform and thus