Anyone have any experience keeping one of these

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Looking to see if anyone has ever kept a Crystal Eyed Catfish (Hemibagrus wyckii) before? I am thinking about adding this to the final tank in my fish room as a kinda easy mode single specimen tank, and I wanted to put something that was off the beaten path. Any experience anyone has had with these would be really appreciated.
 
Maybe they are more rare than I thought :-)

Seriously though hopefully somebody has kept these before as I would really like to know more about how they do in aquarium life.
 
Reputation to be about as vicious as a fish can get. Kills stuff that's much bigger just for bad mood. Otherwise beautiful and low-maintenance (same as any mondo-cat), or so the reports go. I've only ever seen one in a restaurant "pick your dinner" tank in Vietnam.
 
Reputation to be about as vicious as a fish can get. Kills stuff that's much bigger just for bad mood. Otherwise beautiful and low-maintenance (same as any mondo-cat), or so the reports go. I've only ever seen one in a restaurant "pick your dinner" tank in Vietnam.

Thanks for the reply. I have to say that I am pretty interested in this fish. Need to check with my LFS to see what the chances of getting one of these from the wholesaler is.
 
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