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Silurus Merdionalis thread

surfermike915 said:
That’s interesting. Maybe I’ve seen misidentified Soldotovs. They’re so scarce that I doubt all pics on goggle are correct Id. I’ve come to the conclusion we are looking at two sp. at least. They’re a multiple Silurus sp. that call China home, and multiple farms which house these so for culinary purposes. We need more photos. I doubt there are any more that can give us more solid id.
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Agreed, hard to dig up anything definitive across the board. Same pics come up when searching different names. When u start getting close, theres nothing in english and its pics of larger specimen being caught by fishermen… be nice if someone gave an update on the last batch that came in looking similar to these guys.
 
Experienced keepers standing in front of well-lit aquariums consistently disagree upon the identification of this (and many other) species. Considering the number of times that a Google search has turned up fantastic information and pics..."fantastic" in this case referring to "originating in the world of fantasy!"...I wonder why we even bother sometimes.

I especially like those pics of exceptionally massive specimens, sometimes long dead and sitting in the sun, othertimes a blurry top view of some big grey squirmy thing in a net, and still others with a smiling fisherman who has one hand thrust deep into the gills, another supporting the distended belly of an oversized fish and his fishing rod clenched in his teeth. Those pics prove one thing: the guy caught a big fish. Assigning an identification right down to the species level with evidence like that is...well, it's fantastic! :)
 
Well, this is rough:

I recently moved. I thought I planned everything out well. Welp I was wrong. I spent nearly 48 hours awake running off fumes and fish water. I lost many large fish with my large 18.5" silurus included in that along my duo of piraiba and my 16" aimara. It hurts alot. But as an athlete, I love the metaphorical example that if you get injured, you don't get all down and out feeling bad for yourself, yes maybe for a bit, but rehab and working back your health is what the focus should shift to. I felt bad for a while as someone who is a caretaker for these beautiful creatures, but I did all that I could. Time to start over and do it right.


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