Asian red tail cat a monster?

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Naw, my thought already made up about comm tank. I can't risk it with my Aimara. If add any, it will not be a threat to her. just gonna start another tank. Thinking outside ghetto pond or something. Idk? Still debating coz I don't wanna pass it up. This place has great info and I'm learning a lot from many of yall here.
 
im actually trying to get it for $15, lol. What's weird is that she is the only wyckii there. So I'm gonna ask him where he get it from. I'll put up pics when I pick it up. Maybe I id it wrong. But it really looks like a wyckii.
 
This fish can't be housed with any other fish other except itself.
I've tried to add fishes into the tank and within minutes the counterpart ends up badly shredded :(
This is a beautiful catfish if u can dedicate one tank to itself :)
 
Right now, it's in the tank with a huge red devil, rd just ripping her apart every chance he gets. She hides in a lil tube. So maybe coz she's too small to defend herself or something.
 
You'll have better chances housing tank mates with the aimara.

Wow that is quite a statement in itself! But how come the ARTC is considered so much more problematik than it's sout american counterpart? Stronger bite? Or more active? Because there are video where a huge common tank with normal RTC and big aimara worked quite well. And like you statet, the SA RTC grows faster, so shouldn't it be the more problematic one?

Is amampa a sub species of the aimara?
 
Yeah, Moe, I've noticed it too that wyckiis became scarce lately.

I see 6"-8"-ers for $125 e.g. at Shark Aquarium and a few other highly reputable vendors. What??!! 5 years ago that was a $20 fish.

Comming wyckii in small(ish) tanks (even 300 gal) is a huge gamble but Justarn has pulled it off: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/project-black-devil-cat-in-a-300g-community.549472/
Yes! I couldn't wait so I pulled a stupid move by picking up wyckii 6" for 15, than got her killed first night with the artc. I don't bought the divider was gonna work but somehow she escaped through a crack and never returned again. Damn I'm pissed!!!
 
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