Our first half a dozen rescue TSNs from 2009-2011. In a 4000 gal basement pond 40'x6'x3'.
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We have been talking about how ornamental fish trade gets culls (read - gene pool waste) from fish farms, when it comes to many farmed fish, e.g., catfish like IDS, paroon sharks, RTC, TSN, TSNxRTC, TSNxLei, walking catfish spp, Hemibagrus spilopterus, channel catfish, etc.
This one's about a TSN: I got it 3 years ago from Snookn21 at a skinny 3"-4". It was only a foot after 1 year, 1.5' after 2 years, which about 2x slower growth rate, while I was feeding it well with whole fish to its content.
Last summer it fasted for 3 months in its 4500 gal, I didn't know why. Then started eating ok again. Same thing this year.
Today at 23" and ~4 years old it's dead. For an unknown reason. External damage is post-mortum action by tankmates.
My first guess is that it's a runt and their lifespan can be very short. It's been reported by Moontanman that his runt Mississippi paddlefish didn't make it past 3-5 years.
Surely there could have been other reasons. Just because it's never looked sick, it could have been sick. I cut it up and have not found much noteworthy, no inflammations, no tumors, no macroscopic parasites, just messed up intestine that looked like a mass, but it could have been some overgrown internal organ that I didn't recognize.
Anyhoo, just a hunch that ~4 years could have been an expected lifespan of this poor genetic hiccup.
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We have been talking about how ornamental fish trade gets culls (read - gene pool waste) from fish farms, when it comes to many farmed fish, e.g., catfish like IDS, paroon sharks, RTC, TSN, TSNxRTC, TSNxLei, walking catfish spp, Hemibagrus spilopterus, channel catfish, etc.
This one's about a TSN: I got it 3 years ago from Snookn21 at a skinny 3"-4". It was only a foot after 1 year, 1.5' after 2 years, which about 2x slower growth rate, while I was feeding it well with whole fish to its content.
Last summer it fasted for 3 months in its 4500 gal, I didn't know why. Then started eating ok again. Same thing this year.
Today at 23" and ~4 years old it's dead. For an unknown reason. External damage is post-mortum action by tankmates.
My first guess is that it's a runt and their lifespan can be very short. It's been reported by Moontanman that his runt Mississippi paddlefish didn't make it past 3-5 years.
Surely there could have been other reasons. Just because it's never looked sick, it could have been sick. I cut it up and have not found much noteworthy, no inflammations, no tumors, no macroscopic parasites, just messed up intestine that looked like a mass, but it could have been some overgrown internal organ that I didn't recognize.
Anyhoo, just a hunch that ~4 years could have been an expected lifespan of this poor genetic hiccup.
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