Catfish Bonanza

[necrocanis]

That sucks about the power outage! I hope your RTCxTSN pulls through! I miss mine and haven't been able to find one again. And your's is definitely the nicest and largest I've seen.

tnx benz. I hope he does well also. I would love to see him hit 4 or 5 ft one day. When I was first on here I heard that they have weak immune systems and only live for a short time and no one had one over 20" I think I have proved that more than wrong. This fish has to have the strongest immune system I have every seen. He lived in 40 gals of water for 2 months with a 20" pleco. When the pleco died I was at work for 5 days so it rotted in the water. I thought for sure he would be dead, but after cleaning the tub there he was still alive and kicking. He's had no filtration for 2 weeks. He's tough I think he'll do fine. Other than a few bruises, sores, and cloudy eyes he looks perfect still as thick as he was 2 months ago. He ate a piece of shrimp a min ago. So things are looking up. My fiancee will be watching him for the next 5 days while I am at work.

 

[necrocanis]

here's a pic of the big lima when I first got him. lol. man he's grown. Take a quick look at the pics of my new tsn He has no pelvic fins. He was bought like this. Also he has that wierd sloped head too. But he's still cool as hell in my book!

 

[amazonfishman]

Really sorry to hear about your loss, thats the second power outtage I've seen this week where alot of nice fish were lost, the other was JuanTamed's pbass babies. Glad to hear the big guy is still kicking though I hope he pulls through. Thats massive growth on the planiceps, how many inches per month is it averaging? I am getting about 2.5-3" a month growth on mine right now and will be needing the pond soon. Any battery backup plans or options available to keep your heaters running? I need to find a backup method also because I would hate to lose all my fish in a bad outtage thats $$$$ of fish gone. Sweet pics of the Lima's I'll post up a massive one I saw at the LFS tonight for your viewing pleasure it was probably 15" or so I'd say and an updated of mine at around 10-11". Good luck bro and keep us posted ~Trent

 

[Chad55]

Wow sorry to hear about your big boys! I would love to see some new pictures of your pond setup and the rtcxtsn. I love those mutts .

Chad

 

[necrocanis]

When I get back from work I will take some more pics of the hybrid and the pond settup for you to look at. My planiceps now that it is eating properly is growing an average of about 2 inches per month. The tsn grew about 4 inches his first month. Lets see how he does his second month. lol. My lima is averaging about 1- 1 1/2 inches per month. He's catching up with the planiceps lol. The planiceps didn't eat for a long time when I first got him. Now he's very voracious. My tsn tried to eat a 5 1/2 inch silver tipped shark. He got finned in his mouth lol. Look forward to the pics!

 

[hamato_yoshii]

Those are sweet, I've only seen them as juveniles till now, awesome.

 

[necrocanis]

Here's a few pics of my hybrid back in his newly revamped pond. Wow, let's hope I never have to insulate another pond ever again lol. The few scrapes, bruises, and cloudy eyes, are almost healed completly after about $100 of melafix.

 

[necrocanis]

here's some updated pics. I have seen so much growth in my tsn that I had to post some more pics. He grew another 2 inches in 2 weeks. lol. Also some updated pics of my hybrid. He's doing better and all healed up. Now I just have to fatten him back up! Anyone else have a genetically deformed tsn? I seen pics of them before. The entire cranium of mine is severely slopped, doesn't stop him from eating and growing a ton. He also doesn't have any pelvic fins. Just one little nub.

 

[necrocanis]

in case you guys didn't catch them in another post here's some pics of my hybrid eating a pompano! Enjoy. They were shot at 6 frames per second. My cam didn't stand a chance. The first shot is a single before I lowered the fish to the pond where my catfish came out of the water and grabbed it from my hand! lol.

 

[koff]

wow nice fish!!