The smaller ariid catfishes have minor value as public and home aquarium fish. In 1972, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago received worldwide acclaim for the first successful breeding of "Ariopsis felis" in captivity, a feat they have repeated several times since. The Colombian shark catfish "Sciades seemanni" (until recently "Hexanematichthys seemanni") is a fairly popular aquarium fish, though it has been traded under a variety of spurious names, such as "Arius jordani" and "Arius seemani". Less commonly traded aquarium species include "Arius berneyi" and "Arius graeffei".