awesome man. im still loving the hybrid. the jau looks awesome too. i just need to buy the hybrid next week to complete the collection of TSN, RTC and hybrid! i guess ure one step ahead of me. i duno if i shud risk keeping a jau. i heard they grow HUGEEEEEEEE
Catfish Bonanza
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Tnx guys. They are my pride and joy. Just fed them and the rtc and jau fight over shrimp lol. The rtc has become quit the bully. Jau can reach 6 or 7 ft in the wild and there are reports of them getting over 300 lbs.
Geese let's hope for your sake it dosent get that big (forshadow) Hey has anyone heard from necrocanis lately ?? No not since he went out to feed the jau! lol!!!
Goind to grow him large as possible, and what better way to go lol!malawi haps;1144649; said:
Thought you guys might like this also here's a 2' pic vs a 3' pic!
Damin!Looks like a completly diffrent fish ! Looks like they also get darker with age and growth.
I have 5 tanks in my house ranging from 10 gals to 90 gals. In my garage there are 3 ponds, only two hold fish the other my painted turtle. They are 30 gals for the turtle, 350 gals for the hybrid, and my biggest is 1100 gals. Thinking of doing a fish swap in the next couple of months. Put the big boy into the 1100 gal, and put the smaller cats into the 350 gal. Not sure that the 350 gal filtration can handle the bioload of all those large fish. I'll have to upgrade the filtration.killerfish;1146229; said:
I know it's amazing how much he's changed since I've owned him. He's 3', and I can only imagine how big he would be if not for the stress of 4 moves in the past 2 years. He's only grown 12" in the past 2 years that I have had him, but I feel confident that he will do great from now on. Most cats do get darker with age, and their spots and stripes slowly fade to very thin and spotty to nothing at all. Filamentosum, and Zungaro zungaro lose their spots almost completely as adults. filamentosum was once thought to be 2 species, the natives call small individuals(under 200 lbs) phillote, and ones over that Piraiba(up to 500 lbs) Zungaro was also once considered 2 seperate species. They turn a dark black to olive drab color as adults. As immature individuals they are a greyish green with many dark black spots. Just some gee wiz there lol. Love my hybrid though, and will never part with him unless I have no other choice!malawi haps;1146479; said:
yeh truly amazing. u can really see the vast difference from 2' to 3' in terms of girth and colour. do u think ull ever be able to keep ure hybrid with some of the others?
going to try. I have the ponds set up the way they are right now for a reason. Initially I was thinking that maybe I could grow out the others and when they are big enough not to be eaten I can put the big boy in with them. Only one problem he has never tolerated other fish very much. He'll let them live so long as they stay out of his way otherwise he's a tail nipper. He likes to tear the tails off of other catfish. He killed my planiceps that way. My planiceps was 27" and he was 33". I figured all would be good, but he did it anyway. He ripped half the tail off of a P. blochii x tsn hybrid another time also. He need more aggressive fish or he'll kill them. I've never tried housing him with another tsn or rtc I am keeping my fingers crossed. Kinda powerfeeding everyone getting them ready for him in the future. Right now I am feeding about 5 lbs of shrimp per week between all of my catfish. The pond with all the future monsters gets probably 3 of those, and the rest goes to the big boy and my catfish in the house.
