Lima Shovelnose

[Catfish Pownage 63]

they don't even sell them usually here in Montana but everytime they have come in I have paid $40+ for about 3" ones. i know they are cheap elsewhere, but they are an extremely rare find here as are any large catfish. I would have to pay $60+ to get a RTC through my pet store here.

me too i paid 60$ bucks for mine

[boosteshemi]

Mine shed everytime I do a water change. Had my biggest one for about 2 yrs and its about 12" and got another a few months ago it's put on a few inches since prob about 5-6" now. As for the current they don't really seem to like it so I turned the return down on my canister. Awesome fish IMO.


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Love the coloring on them.

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[Jbh2383]

Love the coloring on them.

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Thanks. I feed them a diet of fresh tilapia, shrimp, feeders and hikari sinking carnivore pellets.


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[boosteshemi]

How long did it take you to get them on pellets.

[cl0wn knife]

Very nice catfish

[boosteshemi]

Thank you in the process of fattening him up lol.

[Jbh2383]

How long did it take you to get them on pellets.

A long time had to starve them for awhile but they finally started eating massivore and food sticks.


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[archers]

What is their growth rate? Nice fish op

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[boosteshemi]

Thank you and from What I've read and been told it's really slow

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[necrocanis]

When yours was smaller did you cut up the shrimp or throw in a whole one?

Yes I would cut up shrimp, and when very small fed frozen krill, and blood worms.

I guess I stand corrected unless Cliff will agree that this is unusual for this fish to be such an aggressive feeder. My impression was based on my seven specimen and what I've read of others but, of course, still may be wrong and things surely vary for different keepers.

I am actually happy to see that they can feed like that.

I really wish that I could say it was normal. As I hinted to the other 2 that were in the same tank always ate maybe 1 shrimp each and that was it. I had one that I kept longer than this one and it would eat maybe 1 shrimp every other day, and only grew to 9 or 10" in 5 years. This one eating massively like this, and even pushing various TSN, JAU, RTC out of the way or snatching food out of their mouth as I moved them through various growout tanks. I really miss this LSN. In the pic I posted it was maybe 13", when it was dead at 16" it had maybe 2" streamers off the tail. This was definitely one of my all time individual favorite fish and could be hand fed as well. Never flighty either. The older one I had broke it's beak on the glass when I walked by one day and never ate the same after that.