{"title":"Specialty \u0026 Rare Catfish","description":"\u003cp\u003eEight catfish that did not fit anywhere else: \u003cstrong\u003eelectric\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eMalapterurus\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cstrong\u003egulper\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eAsterophysus batrachus\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cstrong\u003eblue channel\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ebanjo\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eglass\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eKryptopterus\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cstrong\u003eS.A. bumblebee\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ealbino hoplo\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the \u003cstrong\u003epink Caqueta blind cat\u003c\/strong\u003e — each in Quarantined, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/lightly-medicated\"\u003eLightly Medicated\u003c\/a\u003e and Non-Quarantined listings. Half are oddballs for a normal tank; half are serious animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnow which you are buying. The electric catfish is exactly that and will put a real jolt through your arm; it lives alone and you use tongs. The gulper swallows prey close to its own length and sometimes kills itself doing it. A blue channel is a native food fish that passes three feet — pond stock, not aquarium stock. Banjo, glass, bumblebee and hoplo are the four that belong in a normal community tank.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"banjo-catfish-medium-large-big","title":"Banjo Catfish","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe banjo catfish’s whole body plan is a disguise: a wide, flattened head narrowing into a slender tail, shaped uncannily like the instrument that gave it its common name, colored to match dead leaves and silt. 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The full process — and how to decide which tier is yours — is explained in \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/quarantined-vs-non-quarantined\"\u003eQuarantined vs Non-Quarantined\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe guarantees\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShipped orders:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48-hour live guarantee from delivery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn-store pickup:\u003c\/strong\u003e 28-day live guarantee — bring a water sample from your aquarium so we can test it before your livestock goes home with you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaintenance clients:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60-day live guarantee on any livestock you buy from us, for as long as we service your aquarium on a plan of at least twice a month — weekly, every 10 days, or biweekly. Monthly plans carry 28 days. Nobody else in the trade puts that in writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhy quarantined is the right choice\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have an established display tank, the math is simple: the premium on a quarantined animal is small next to the cost of treating — or losing — everything already in your tank. It also means you can skip running a hospital tank at home, which done properly is its own aquarium, its own months of patience, and its own chance to get something wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe honest caveat: many of these species are also available from us non-quarantined for less. Those carry a 1-hour DOA guarantee when shipped — 24 hours with a water sample if you pick up in store — and no refunds, returns, or credits beyond that. There is also a middle rung: the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/lightly-medicated\"\u003eLightly Medicated listing\u003c\/a\u003e gets one short prophylactic course and is covered for 24 hours shipped or 7 days on pickup with a water sample. If you already run a proper quarantine setup at home, that’s a fair trade and you should take it. If you don’t, this listing is the right one. 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Do the same at your end: get it eating in your aquarium before you count it settled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhen it ships\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlan on \u003cstrong\u003e3–5 days\u003c\/strong\u003e on our systems for the treatment course, and it does not leave until it is eating. \u003cstrong\u003eIf the animal is not already in our systems we source it first — allow up to two weeks for it to reach us before that clock starts.\u003c\/strong\u003e From the day you order, plan on roughly two and a half weeks in total.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe guarantees\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShipped orders:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24-hour live guarantee from confirmed delivery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn-store pickup:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7-day live guarantee — bring a water sample from your aquarium so we can test it before your livestock goes home with you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWant the full program — treated, observed, confirmed eating, and covered for 28 days on pickup? 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It does not guarantee full removal, and we will not pretend otherwise.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ich is only killed in its free-swimming stage, and a short treatment window can miss cysts entirely; worm burdens can survive a single dose. Clearing an animal takes the full quarantine window — 40 to 90 days depending on the species — which is exactly what the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/quarantine-program\"\u003eQuarantined listing\u003c\/a\u003e is for. This tier buys you a lower parasite load and a fish we have watched eat, not a cleared animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe condition the fish on our end.\u003c\/strong\u003e Every animal we medicate is brought back onto prepared food on our own systems and is eating before it leaves — in practice it is rare for a lightly medicated fish to ship out and arrive sick. 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