List your predatory catfishes!

[BGG]

I'll stop making "List your -------!" threads after this, but lets see what sorts of predatory catfishes other members here have. Again, I'll start things off :D :
Right now I've only got a small jurenese and two RTC... in the past I've kept loads of South American cats, mainly Pimelodids... but a few odd cat families here and there such as candiru, eel cats, synos, and African "poison slime" cats. :)

[M|L]

I've had too many to list. :p

Post some pictures up people. :)

[piranha45]

I had a nice 5" spotted pictus, it was 2 yrs old. I fried him just this past Sunday due to personal negligence :(


Then I attempted to cut him up but... man, once I opened his guts up, a nasty fishy reek started to pervade the room. I got a good look at his mouth though; seems them pimelodids have a distinctly-shaped scrubby pad thing (like really fine sandpaper) on each jaw and that's it; no real teeth.

[The TRUST]

As of the moment, I have:

TSN
TSN x RTC
TSN x Marble
TSN x Blochii
Psuedoras Niger

[rayman45]

ive had
2-tsn
3-rtc
2- tig
3-lima sn
marble sf
p.niger
channel cats



i have now
tig
jur
looking for flash zebra
big blue channel cat

[WckedMidas]

AT moment.
1 tsn maybe 17 inchs give or take a little.
1 tsn red tail hybrid maybe 8 or 9 inchs
1 bullhead cat that was 8 inchs
channel cat 18 inchs died two weeks ago :confused:
Working on a b. jurense
and a reg red tail

[piranha45]

what could kill a 18" channel cat? Those things are built like tanks.

[redtailfool]

My favorite is the Red Tail Catfish... thats why i am RedTailFool ! LOL


No predatory catfish at the moment..

[WckedMidas]

i stuck some driftwood in my 150 that i had found . It looked freeaking awsom let me tell ya. But it landed up leachin out some chemicals in the watter and the channel sufferd the worse. I thought the channel was gonna survive and my tsn red tail hybrid was gonna die. I was wrong it was opposit way around. Guess i should have spent as much time nurseing the channel back like i did the red tail tsn hybrid huh. But i was more attached to the hybrid so i worried more about him. And it looked like the channel was makeing a good recovery. The channel died next day.

[BigMOCats]

Have - 4 rtc, 2 tsn, 1 tsn/rtc hybrid, 1 longibarbus, 1 tig, 1 planiceps plus 3 15" bullheads and 1 20" channel in outdoor pond

Tuesday - perruno from Peru plus whatever else shows up.

Scott

[WckedMidas]

dude post a pic of your red tail tsn hybrid in galery i posted mine i beleve . how big is yours mines somewhere around the 8 or 9 incher mark.,

[BigMOCats]

dude post a pic of your red tail tsn hybrid in galery i posted mine i beleve . how big is yours mines somewhere around the 8 or 9 incher mark.,

Done. About 12" now. Got him from Logan on another site ;)

Scott

[WckedMidas]

yep yours is bigger nice looking fish. cant wait till mines the size of my tsn

[DonH]

Psuedopimelodus fowleri
Psuedopimelodus raninus(?)
Lophiosilurus alexandri
Asterophysus batrachus
Pangasius sanitwongsei
P. niger
Bagarius yarelli
Ageneiosus magoi

Cats I've kept:
M. tigrinus
G. platynema
B. juruense
Redtail cat

[BGG]

Very cool. Pseudopims are some of my favorite fish. :D

[bmwalley]

Hey first time on here I just got a redtail cat looking to give in a nice home he's only 2 inches now will 180 hold him for a while . Does any one have any pics of tanks with them in it. looking how to set it up :confused:

[katfishguy]

OK,, here we go,, I hope I remember all my fish :p

4 Tigrinus 25", 25", 22" & 20"
2 Tigrinus 3"

2 B.flavicans 13"
1 B.flavicans 18"

1 G.platynema 20"

1 RTC 34"

1 Marbled Cat 24"

2 RTC X TSN 20" & 10"
2 TSN X L.Marmoratus 12"
2 Leucistic TSN 25" & 20"

2 P.sturio 6"
1 TSN(P.tigrinum) 5"
1. B.filamentosum 5"

1 Calophysus macropterus 7"
1 Bagarius sp. 8" (Not sure if it is a yarrelli)
1 Trachycorystes trachycorystes
1 Ageneiosus sp.

1 Albino IR Shark 20"
1 IR Shark (regular) 14"
2 Paroon sharks 8"
1 Black Ear Paroon 6"

hmmm,, I think that is it,, oh,, I got a few smaller cats like pim.blochii, high fin pimelodella

I will be adding a Wyckii to the collection soon :p

[BigMOCats]

Showoff!!! ;)

Scott

[Killduv]

I have two C Apurensis and they eat like pigs and a Dwarf Giraffe Catfish or Anaspidoglanis macrostoma. I had many other predatory cats in the past but the Apurensis are by far my favorite catfishes. Mean and greedy :D

[lophius]

28" redtail
13" giraffe cat
15" megalodoras uranoscopus
24" Liearius marmoratus
30" Paulicia lutkeni
6" paulicia lutkeni
8" Pseudopimelodus raninus villosus
12" Pterodoras granulosus
12" Sperata aor
7" Bagarius (think B bagarius)
8" unidentified bagrid (looks like a grey wykii)
21" hemibagrus wykii
5 x 6" Silurichthys phaiosoma
7" Brachyplatystoma filamentosum
12" Suribumichthys planiceps
22" Lophiosilurus alexandri

and just purchased .....

2 x 8" Psuedopimelodus fowleri
1 x 8" Pseudopimelodus apurensis

1 x 12" albino Silurus glanis
2 x 12" normal colour Silurus glanis

carl

[piranha45]

lophius, what's your estimate on the wels' prospective growth rate?

[lophius]

failry quickly - but it depends on food availability - I kept one for 8 years - got it at 3" and grew it to 3ft (or there abouts) in about 3 years and then stopped it (or considerably slowed it down) ..

carl

[The Jack of Hearts]

5 RTC's (14" to 3")
1 TSN (15")
Spotted Pictus
L175
Whiptail Cat
Striped Rapheal
Various other plecos (Which I am to lazy to find there "L" numbers)

Looking for a Merodontotus tigrinus :cool:

[PhullTank57]

Past Cats kept: :)

Wallago attu
Ompok bimaculatus
Clarias batruchas
Megaladoras irwini
H. fossilis
TSN catfish
RTC catfish
Brachyplatystoma juruense
Brachyplatystoma filamentosum
Calophysus macropterus
Suribumichthys planiceps

And various pleco sp.

[redtailfool]

Redtail Cat ,TSN and some pictus sp that i forgot.

Oh yeah looking to keep a M.Tigrinus in the near future.

[rayman45]

well today i was in a lfs looking for some oddball fish
i saw 2 baby rtc 2"
so i bought 2 of them :)

so cute al ready eating 5 mins into the tank

[Jesse]

My predatory catfish:

12" Merodontotus tigrinus
12" Brachyplatystoma juruense (flash zebra)
8" Trachycorystes trachycorystes
8" Cephalosilurus (formerly Pseudopimelodus) fowleri
7" Trachelypterus (formerly Auchenipterus) galeatus

My non-predatory catfish:

7" Synodontis decorus
6" Synodontis brichardi
3" and 4" Synodontis angelicus
5" Synodontis schoutedeni
4" Synodontis multipunctatus

I know I left something out. :(

[redtailfool]

well today i was in a lfs looking for some oddball fish
i saw 2 baby rtc 2"
so i bought 2 of them :)

so cute al ready eating 5 mins into the tank

RTCs will eat even if theyre not in water..LOL They are such eating machines.

[redtailfool]

My predatory catfish:

12" Merodontotus tigrinus
12" Brachyplatystoma juruense (flash zebra)
8" Trachycorystes trachycorystes
8" Cephalosilurus (formerly Pseudopimelodus) fowleri
7" Trachelypterus (formerly Auchenipterus) galeatus

My non-predatory catfish:

7" Synodontis decorus
6" Synodontis brichardi
3" and 4" Synodontis angelicus
5" Synodontis schoutedeni
4" Synodontis multipunctatus

I know I left something out. :(



Itchy - can you post a pic of you M.Tig please? A big Tig always makes my breathing go faster.. ;) Absolutely one of the best catfish a hobbyist can get.

[neoprodigy]

current

18" m. tigrinus x 2
10" flavican x 1
8" parron shark x 1
8" albino ir cat x 1
8" bagarious B. & bagariuos Y. x 3
4" spotted rtc x1


past

tsnxmarble
tsn
tsn x blogii

[neoprodigy]

Itchy - can you post a pic of you M.Tig please? A big Tig always makes my breathing go faster.. ;) Absolutely one of the best catfish a hobbyist can get.
yes please jess, let see those tigrinus

[Jesse]

Wes and Li, I posted a month-old picture of my tigrinus in the gallery:

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/388/sort/1/cat/2/page/1

[neoprodigy]

need more than 1 pix jesse.... :)

[buddah101]

I live in central Pa. so I can get loads of channel and bullhead cats. PM me.

[Rui]

In the past:

RTC
TSN
Pseudodoras niger
B. Jurense
Emperor ID or Paroon Shark - Pangasius sanitwongsei
Does a 2 foot regular pleco count? lol

[Daddyo72]

1 Raphael cat
1 sun cat
12 inch yellow bull
4 inch black bull
1 Syno
1 bumble bee cat
The yellow bull need a bigger tank, but he never moves except to eat and then back to his den so I figured no rush on the bigger tank yet.

[guppy]

28" redtail
13" giraffe cat
15" megalodoras uranoscopus
24" Liearius marmoratus
30" Paulicia lutkeni
6" paulicia lutkeni
8" Pseudopimelodus raninus villosus
12" Pterodoras granulosus
12" Sperata aor
7" Bagarius (think B bagarius)
8" unidentified bagrid (looks like a grey wykii)
21" hemibagrus wykii
5 x 6" Silurichthys phaiosoma
7" Brachyplatystoma filamentosum
12" Suribumichthys planiceps
22" Lophiosilurus alexandri

and just purchased .....

2 x 8" Psuedopimelodus fowleri
1 x 8" Pseudopimelodus apurensis

1 x 12" albino Silurus glanis
2 x 12" normal colour Silurus glanis

carl
You have a Wels? Cool!!! The record on those things is 13'+, how big is yours, where did you get it, and what temp. do you keep it at? I had tiny one in 74 that I was given while in Germany, It was in an unheated 35g show tank and went from 3" to 10" in a year. I gave it to the USO club when I got transfered, they had an empty tank that was 3'x3'x6'. Has anyone kept Missourri Flathead cats? I did as a kid but had to keep switching them out when they hit about 6", my tank was only a 20.

[guppy]

1 Raphael cat
1 sun cat
12 inch yellow bull
4 inch black bull
1 Syno
1 bumble bee cat
The yellow bull need a bigger tank, but he never moves except to eat and then back to his den so I figured no rush on the bigger tank yet.
Most carnivorous cat I ever kept was a small brown bullhead, at 3" he would bully goldfish his own size until they died and then chew on them until I remove the corpse. My mom made me get rid of it, what can I say, I was 8.

[DIESELMACK]

bagarius yarrelli
bagarius bagarius
fowleri
jua
9 suncats
too many pleco to list
raninus x2
zungaro bufonis x3
microglanis x8
misc pims x9
+ more :D

[neoprodigy]

bagarius yarrelli
bagarius bagarius
fowleri
jua
9 suncats
too many pleco to list
raninus x2
zungaro bufonis x3
microglanis x8
misc pims x9
+ more :D
hahaha.... that is some list!

[DIESELMACK]

got pics.......most of my 14 tanks are dedicated cat tanks :)

[dascsh]

1 - tiger/red cross 15"

[MasterMing]

7 TSN
2 RTC
2 Irredescent Catfish

[shovelnose]

Juvenile Red tail cat
17" TSN
15" asian red tail (little b*stard killed my Shovelnose Lima, an Albino Channel cat , and last week took out a Dempsey)

[piranha45]

Juvenile Red tail cat
17" TSN
15" asian red tail (little b*stard killed my Shovelnose Lima, an Albino Channel cat , and last week took out a Dempsey)
are either of your RTCs active during the light, at all? or invisible during day?

[rayman45]

1 of mine are
the other hide all day

[pufferking]

all ive got is a chaca chaca

[shovelnose]

only at nighy they hide all day

[revkkoolaid]

sobs. god I miss my 20'' RTC. best fish ever. ate from my fingers.

[Temjin]

Just one TSN at about 8 inches
and an asian redtail at 4 inches.
Nothing to special:)

[piranha45]

Just one TSN at about 8 inches
and an asian redtail at 4 inches.
Nothing to special:)
does your ARTC hide at all, or is he pretty active during day right now? what you feed him?

[EFeX]

I just have one 24" M. Tigrinus, used to be the tankmate of my SR arowana but had to separate them, one morning I just saw my SR's fin all torn-up.

[DiXoN]

i have had
b juruence x 5
m tigrinus x 1
l longibarbus x 1
various plecs inc zebra

i have now
p apurensis x 1

[GTS]

L. pictus
various smaller pims....

[rayman45]

im working on tsnxmarble rtcxmarble and maybe a marble

[evilfish]

2xtsn
1xrtc
1xgiant sh
2xmystus leoucophasis
1xclarius
1xlima shovelnose

[prm]

i just bought a small 5-6" rtcxtsn hes a glutton