Tocantins ’24K gold’ Giant Talking Catfish (Megalodoras cf. uranoscopus)

[amazontank]

Hope everyone is doing well!
Anyone heard of this
Tocantins ’24K gold’ Giant Talking Catfish (Megalodoras cf. uranoscopus) Irwinni Catfish
Are they more gold color looking from the Tocantins River?

 

[krichardson]

I'm interested in seeing one,got any photos of it?

 

[tcav88]

From Mike tucc at aqua imports

 

[Iamfish]

Here is a picture of a very large Tocantins gold

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[amazontank]

Awesome thanks so much for those post!
Amazing colors on that fish. My Irwinni are regular.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Here is a picture of a very large Tocantins gold

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That's one striking irwini!

I've never been sure about this morph, where it was from and how reliable it is that if you get one, it will grow to be something like this amazing fish in the photo.

Does anyone know if this can be trusted? I mean what Mike's got? (BTW I am not finding this fish on AquaScape site...) I don't like the bloody, red eye on that specimen, looks like an illness.

Do we know if this one is one of them? https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/27-megaldoras-irwini.733969/

 

[MatteoTheEnder22]

That's one striking irwini!

I've never been sure about this morph, where it was from and how reliable it is that if you get one, it will grow to be something like this amazing fish in the photo.

Does anyone know if this can be trusted? I mean what Mike's got? (BTW I am not finding this fish on AquaScape site...) I don't like the bloody, red eye on that specimen, looks like an illness.

Do we know if this one is one of them? https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/27-megaldoras-irwini.733969/

Aqua-imports has them for sale pretty often
here is a link.

Tocantins '24K gold' Giant Talking Catfish (Megalodoras cf. uranoscopus)

A unique and heavily armored catfish found throughout the Amazon and its tributaries, the Giant Talking Catfish or Irwin’s Catfish is

www.aqua-imports.com

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Thank you for this. I messed up. I looked at AquaScape (also run by a Mike). This is Aqua Imports. My bad.

Expensive. $100 for 2"-3" and up to $350 for one footer.

 

[Iamfish]

That's one striking irwini!

I've never been sure about this morph, where it was from and how reliable it is that if you get one, it will grow to be something like this amazing fish in the photo.

Does anyone know if this can be trusted? I mean what Mike's got? (BTW I am not finding this fish on AquaScape site...) I don't like the bloody, red eye on that specimen, looks like an illness.

Do we know if this one is one of them? https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/27-megaldoras-irwini.733969/

That just looks like a regular one imo, but I am no expert I have never owned one just from what ive seen online the tocantins are really gold and not just tan.

 

[Rpul]

I brought one from pier early this year. Around 4” now around 6” although the colour has faded alittle, starting to look like a normal meh. Pricey little fish. Set me back £120.