aw!!! lol. thats cute. ill tell my friend and shell say "i wanna pet Ryan!" lol. im glad things are calming down and everyones getting settled. wish i didnt live so far-id LOVE to check out your tanks!
Catfish Bonanza
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damn man ure RTC*TSN hybrid is just the most amazing ive ever seen. i kinda wish i bought that instead of my two TSN because they r so skittish and dont grow as fast. the hybrid seems to be just as personable as a RTC, if not more. true beauty. well done.
necro you are the reason I got back in to catfish !!! The inspiration alone makes me want to go out and get a tub fron tsc(Tractor supply co) and get a rtc but I think for now I stay with my B. bagarius. I think that is what he is he has grown 2"in the two weeks Ive had him???Eats 24 ghost shrimp every 4 days and a doz guppies.
Tnx for all the comments guys. I just took updated pics of all my cats, and you can expect a detailed update on all of them later today. Everyone keeps asking so I got pics of them all. lol
Let's see if I can get all these pics on here lol. Some info. I have 3 tsn 2 are in the 1100 gal pond. Lumpy as you will see in the pics is getting worse with his cranial deformity. When he was young he was almost normal, and as he grows the curvature of his skull gets worse and worse. I have now raised him from 2" to 17" in about 10 months. He would probably be 18" or longer if not for the curvature, but I love him anyway. His lower jaw now protrudes in front of the upper. I have to chop shrimp small so that he can eat them. I hope to have him for a long time to come. The other tsns are 14" and 8". You'll see them throughout the pics. My marble red tail catfish as it was coined is about 10" and thick as hell. He's very calm and just lays there even at night only moving to eat his nightly portion of shrimp. My columbian sharkcat is about 6" now, and will be moved to a larger tank soon. My bullhead has grown from 7" when I first caught her to 8 1/2" now. She's a fatty, I call her precious, she was gravid with eggs when I caught her, but I gut hooked her severely bad so I kept her to heal and maybe catch her a mate next year. My big boy is eating again after fasting. I am pretty sure that the filtration is to blame as I have to feed smaller portions more often to keep him happy. I can't wait to make my giant tank and put him and the other cats in it. He's still somewhere around 3' mark. He's thickened back up nicely. The Jau(Ryan) is around 17" and thick from head to tail. He no longer tries to eat larger tank mates. He lives and lets live, but did eat a 5" jaguar cichlid that I put in the pond. It was harrassing my limas and that's a no go lol. The limas are great and very gorgeous. They are eating like pigs, and getting huge. The biggest is still dark as can be, and the other one is getting thicker as he is now eating again. Finally there's my newest additions the ID sharks. I got them 3 weeks ago at 2", and they are 4" now. This is the best pair I have seen locally ever for sale in Montana so I am hopefull they will get huge.
you can see the battle scar on the channel that the jau left one night. It's fin just refuses to grow back lol. He is very wary of the jau now. The jau is much better tempered than he use to be though.
