My new cats

[OTp1144]

Picked up these guys over the long weekend visiting family in CA.

TSN ~7", only $17

RTCxTSN ~13", only $50

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Nice. Good price on the TSN. Average on the hybrid. You must have driven, not flown.

The hybrid might have a rather common duck-bill deformity or so it looks from this angle.

 

[OTp1144]

I wasn't a huge fan of the price on the hybrid, but I also got an Asian red tail for free at an inch which totally made up for it.

It totally does look like it doesn't it. I'm still not sure if it's actually got it or not. Some angles it does, some it doesn't. Lol

 

[OTp1144]

Here's the best picture I could get of the little devil...Looking forward to giving him his own 300g pond

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Hard to say which species this is. True ARTC = Hemibagrus wyckoides appear rather rare and would be nice to score for free. If it is a nemurus or a wyckii, these are ~$5 for a ~3" fish on East coast.

 

[OTp1144]

It very well may be a nemurus and really wouldn't surprise me since this guy had some funny names for some of his fish. But he did claim this was a wyckiodes. :/

guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

So wait we will. A pedantic note: you and I both missed one letter i. Different one though. It's wyckioides. http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=19

 

[OTp1144]

Just curious... Of the 3, wykioides, wyckii, and nemurus... if you had to rank them, which is most aggressive? which is least? And does it really matter or do I not have a chance of tankmates at all?

 

[Hoplo]

Pretty fish, they are going to grow fast.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Just curious... Of the 3, wykioides, wyckii, and nemurus... if you had to rank them, which is most aggressive? which is least? And does it really matter or do I not have a chance of tankmates at all?

Nemurus is the least problematic. Mine has been rather well behaved with hundreds of tank mates. A lot depends on the set up, esp. tank size, etc. that's hard to predict but bigger tanks sure help. I trust you've read Justarn's account of a wyckii in his 300 gal - this thread has been updated regularly over year(s). My wyckiis have been ok with each other from 3" to ~6". After that they could not be housed together. My two 1.5'-ers didn't bother anyone in a 4000 gal pond. True ARTC I have never had a first hand experience with. They re said to be as bad or worse than wyckii but again details are needed as to sizes, sexes, what tank mates, tank sizes, etc. I don't think the answer is simple.