Name: AHB Series 21 - Redtail Catfish – Phractocephalus hemioliopterus | Fish
SKU: AHB-V21-05-FIS
Price: 37.99 USD
Availability: InStock

AHB Series 21 – Redtail Catfish – Phractocephalus hemioliopterus | Fish

A charming, chubby figure of the Redtail Catfish (Phractocephalus hemioliopterus) — the friendly-faced Amazon giant with its signature red tail, hand-painted in lifelike detail on its own display base.

Approx. Size: H ~2 in (5 cm) · Weight ~0.5 lb (230 g)
Material: Hand-painted resin
Display: Single fixed figure on its own included base

Only 2 left in stock

Animal Heavenly Body · A Series of Laugh and Grow

Series 21 · The Aquatic Collection

Redtail Catfish

Phractocephalus hemioliopterus

The Redtail Catfish — a South American river giant with an unmistakable orange-red tail, famous for outgrowing every aquarium it is ever put in.

AMAZON RIVER GIANT · cute now, colossal later

RangeAmazon, Orinoco & Essequibo

HabitatLarge tropical rivers

Wild SizeUp to 5 ft (1.5 m)

WeightOver 120 lb (55 kg)

SignatureBright red-orange tail

AppetiteEats almost anything

A Series of Laugh and Grow

Real animals, reimagined plump and cheerful — painted in lifelike detail, sculpted impossibly cute.

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Chubby & Full of Character

Rounded, soft and undeniably cute — yet every scale, fin and marking is hand-painted true to the real animal. The reaction it gets in person is always the same: so detailed, and so adorable.

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Ready to Display

A single, sturdy piece that stands on its own included base — no assembly, no fuss. Set it on a desk or shelf and it holds its happy pose, ready to collect and show off.

Few fish are as instantly recognizable — or as notoriously oversized — as the redtail catfish. With a smooth grey back, snow-white belly and a tail dipped in bright orange-red, it is a charmer as a youngster and a genuine river monster as an adult.

That Signature Tail

The blazing red-orange tail and crisp white belly-stripe make the redtail one of the most recognizable catfish on Earth. The Series 21 paintwork nails that bold three-tone contrast.

A Gentle-Looking Giant

Those wide-set eyes and drooping barbels give it a permanently friendly, almost cartoonish face — which is exactly why it charms aquarists, and exactly why this chubby version works so well.

The Ultimate Tankbuster

Starting the size of a thumb, a redtail can grow to five feet and over a hundred pounds, swallowing anything that fits in its cavernous mouth. It is the classic cautionary tale of the fish that got too big.

King of the Amazon Riverbed

In the wild it patrols the deep channels of the Amazon and Orinoco, using its barbels to taste the riverbed for food. Here that colossus is shrunk to something you can hold in one hand.

“Adorable in your palm; a river monster in the Amazon.”

Craft & Specifications

Series	A Series of Laugh and Grow (Series 21) — Aquatic, by Animal Heavenly Body
Approx. Size	H ~2 in (5 cm) · Weight ~0.5 lb (230 g)
Material	Hand-painted resin
Display	Single fixed figure on its own included base
SKU	AHB-V21-05