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How To Safely Add Fish To Tank
- Set live stock aside with transportation bag in room temperature place for 30 minutes.
- Then transfer bag to float in aquarium for another 30 minutes
- Use a fish net to transfer the live stock by scooping it from the bag into the tank.
Note: Do not release live stocks together with the transportation water into tank.
The Red Lizard Whiptail in Planted SG Tanks
The Red Lizard Whiptail is a slim, peaceful loricariid catfish with a striking reddish-orange tone and a long, tapering tail that earns its name. Unlike many plecos it stays modest in size and rarely uproots plants, making it a graceful bottom-dweller for community and aquascaped tanks. It spends its day grazing biofilm and gentle algae off driftwood, leaves and hardscape, drifting along surfaces rather than rooting through substrate.
These whiptails appreciate clean, well-oxygenated water and some current, which is easy to supply in our warm 27-29C tanks with a decent filter. Driftwood is genuinely important; it offers grazing surfaces and the cover they prefer. Because they are gentle and unhurried, avoid boisterous or fin-nipping tankmates that monopolise food. Sinking wafers and blanched vegetables supplement the natural biofilm they constantly browse.
Find more in our bottom feeders section. To set up properly, see our whiptail catfish tank aquascape and aquarium biofilm guide, and our algae eater fish guide explains how whiptails fit a clean-up crew.
