Oil Cat

A popular and attractively patterned dwarf woodcat from the middle Amazon and its tributaries in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, the Honeycomb Woodcat or Oil Catfish is a cryptic species which spends most of the daylight hours hidden within driftwood, leaf litter, or submerged logs. At night however, they emerge to feed near the surface where they actively hunt for insects and insect larvae. In the aquarium they are a hardy species and have been bred successfully, but should be kept only with similarly small and peaceful tankmates as they can easily be outcompeted for food.