I know I know its just a good clean picture and he has taken to becoming quite nocturnal. I will make an effort to get one in the next few days when I do I will let you know 
things eating for England.RTC X TSN
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I know I know its just a good clean picture and he has taken to becoming quite nocturnal. I will make an effort to get one in the next few days when I do I will let you know things eating for England.Right this is as good as it get his head his tail till the pond is finished i think i will be using the old one
He has got to be 18" now its a bit of a cat party in there TSN and TSN/RTC X and my old clarius
gorgeous, they certainly love that drift wood! That thing is growing like mad! Before you know it he'll be the size of mine!
Got a better pic had to go out there when the light were off so when i say better well its all of him
nice dark coloration on him stotty. He's a beauty. Sometimes I wonder why so many people hate hybrids when I look at them. At least the catfish hybrids I have seen are beautiful, and are not deformed in any way! You plan on keeping him for life? I am going to keep mine for life. Hopefully that's a long time from now! I want to be one of the first if not the first to grow one of these to 4ft!
We have both experienced the scorn of the Hybrid haters. As I said before Hybridisation happens all the time with fish in the wild and before I get it in the ear again i will say
to them.I think he is a stunning looking fish. So to them.
just measured mine today at 28 1/2 inches. He's grown half an inch in half a month. Hmmm, i'll slow my feeding schedule when he hits 3ft. 
Stotty i know what you mean. I try to tell people all the time about how a hybrids cannot reproduce and if accidentally or intentionally released into the wild they will not reproduce or breed with other types of fish and thin out the origional bloodline like everyone thinks. I hear a lot of talk about how if a hybrid gets into the wild it will reak havok on local populations. this just can't happen. either it will live out it's life and die a virgin, hehe, die during the first winter, or get caught and possibly eaten by a fisherman. They cannot thin out the bloodline of full blooded animals cause they are infertile! Only a very small percentage of hybrids are fertile, and even then good luck finding two of the same hybrid that are fertile, and then they reproduce. Well even if they did reproduce you wouldn't get more hybrids. Genetics just don't match like that. You would get two of the origional full blooded species that produced the hybrids in the first place. So someone please tell me how hybrids are bad for the hobby. I wish I could get another one!
I got one of these guys maybe 6 weeks ago and it has well over doubled in size. I bought it @ about 2.5" and it's @ about 6" now. I know they get huge. I'm wondering if they'll be ok (when fully grown or nearly so) in a 250/300 gal aquarium or if I need to take a different route. How much are they expected to weight when full grown? And given that, will he bother my clown knife and royal knife? (Again, this is when they're full grown and the knives should hit around 40".)
