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Silurus Merdionalis thread

surfermike915 said:
Hahah, where are you from mate? Exactly though, nothing beats raising a fish to its true potential under your care.
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I'm coming to you live from the still-nearly-frozen sub-arctic wilds of Manitoba, Canada; everything up here is only half as available and costs twice as much as in the U.S. :)


wednesday13 said:
...I will say there not all that exciting tho sadly lol… mine is only out to feed if i walk away, during 1st light and moonrise/moonset in typical pred fashion. If hes out cruisin… i go fishing 😂😂… really is like clock work with the daily moon phases.
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surfermike915 said:
I second this. Mine just sits and doesn’t really move around a lot.
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My first thought was that my Jelly Cat, my all-time favourite species, isn't too active either...but that's only partially true. If you sit down quietly in the room and watch him, there is indeed an excellent chance that he won't move for hours...but once this species gets to know you and settles into captivity, all it takes is for you to enter the room or approach the tank, and Bang!...he is right up there, front and center, hovering with his mouth just under the surface and daring you to hold a piece of food in your fingers...or even just dangle your fingers! I never get tired of him.

If the Chinese Wels is hiding all the time, and doesn't interract with me that way...and yet doesn't allow me to keep other fish with it for some added activity...then I can see it becoming tiresome. I don't like getting a fish and then after a year or two moving it down the road due to boredom; I always hope to keep fish for extended periods, i.e. many years, and feel a little guilty if I move them down the road just because something new and shiny comes up and catches my eye. Over the past couple years I have had a couple of "must-have" species that outgrew their welcome; trying to avoid that in future, but it's pretty hard to foresee what one will think of a certain fish that far down the road.
 
Update- he ate some bug bites pellets that he goes crazy for. I am gonna do water work tonight like my water change and test water finally. His tail seems to slowly be growing back thank gosh.
 
Dug these up for ya 💀🤙… maaaaybe theres hope to grow one over 30” lol… kept by a respectable old member here. This fish in particular was wild caught and imported at this size tho so no known age sadly. I remember him saying it was 28” but the youtube vid these pics were pulled from says around 1 meter (39”). Hard to gauge its size by the tank but id estimate 28-30” for sure. Honestly its bigger than i remember 😂🤞… def. makes me want to hold on to mine now see how big i can get it in 10+ yrs.
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That ^ is a very cool fish...although its colour and pattern (semi-leucistic?) gives it a kind of Walking Dead vibe that almost begs for a spike through the head. :)

But it sounds as though it would not normally be out on display like that? Is it reasonable to assume that it would be sitting on the bottom and ignoring its keeper 99.9999% of the time? No interaction? Most of what I have read about the Chinese Wels, from @wednesday13 and others, seems to indicate that it's kind of a dud. That particular fish appears not to have anywhere to hide; lying on the bottom in plain sight but oblivious to the presence of its owner still isn't much of an attraction.
 
jjohnwm said:
That ^ is a very cool fish...although its colour and pattern (semi-leucistic?) gives it a kind of Walking Dead vibe that almost begs for a spike through the head. :)

But it sounds as though it would not normally be out on display like that? Is it reasonable to assume that it would be sitting on the bottom and ignoring its keeper 99.9999% of the time? No interaction? Most of what I have read about the Chinese Wels, from @wednesday13 and others, seems to indicate that it's kind of a dud. That particular fish appears not to have anywhere to hide; lying on the bottom in plain sight but oblivious to the presence of its owner still isn't much of an attraction.
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In typical “big cat fashion” most have somewhat of a breaking point in my experience i.e. Rtc, tsn etc. where there pretty much lumps on logs until they reach 24” or so and start becoming personable, hand feeding at the surface and more bold/active. My 22” chinese will cruise the tank like this during moonrise/1st light or late in the evening its just not 24:7 like my old euro wels always up and begging for food. My euro didnt start becoming a “wet pet” until 28-30” tho also (that just happened alot quicker 2-3yrs). Maybe ive just been to quick to judge the chinese, inpatient and forgot my own experiences with cats ive “trained” to be like dogs lol… 6 yrs is a long time for a “larger” cat species to still be only 22”. I think personally i may just be a bit bias from not being “rewarded” so easily yet 😂 with some interaction from mine. I gotta be close. I catch him out more and more as the months/yrs fade by. Prob stick it out at this point and see what happens over 24” 10+ yrs 🤷🏻‍♂️. Mines in a 650g, will never outgrow the tank and has plenty space to hit 30”+ if possible. 🤞. See who breaks first haha…
 
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