Awesome catfish thread!

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I'm just gonna throw these out there because this species was my first love in fish and still holds a spot that is near and dear to my heart. They also make wonderful wet pets!

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divemaster99 said:
Blue cats rule bro! I might get one for my pond in the spring but I'm questioning it. In your experience how big do they average out at?
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Blue cats rock! The only thing that swims that competes with them in my eyes are African tiger fish, and even then its close. :D

I've yet to keep one long term. The first one I had for a summer and I lost it during a power outage that winter. The second kept attacking my GATF and arowana so it went into the pond. Link: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...the-Blue-Catfish&highlight=ictalurus+furcatus

I'm currently looking for another which will be my primary fish that I will hopefully have long term.
 
The bullheads have gotten real pretty since the start of the year. Biggest one is ~7 inches, the other two are 4 or 5 inches. Getting ready to move these guys across the country, hope they make the trip alright :) It's so hard to catch them out with the lights on.

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Rokuzachi said:
The bullheads have gotten real pretty since the start of the year. Biggest one is ~7 inches, the other two are 4 or 5 inches. Getting ready to move these guys across the country, hope they make the trip alright :) It's so hard to catch them out with the lights on.

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Beautiful! I've never seen FL Browns with that good of coloration. And don't worry about them surviving, my pap took some home as food from Michigan a while back, they were in a wet towel for 6 hours in a car and were alive when he got home. If you have them in a bucket and aerate they'll probably survive for days.
 
divemaster99 said:
Beautiful! I've never seen FL Browns with that good of coloration. And don't worry about them surviving, my pap took some home as food from Michigan a while back, they were in a wet towel for 6 hours in a car and were alive when he got home. If you have them in a bucket and aerate they'll probably survive for days.
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Yea, I'm thankful that our natives are such diehards, lol :)

If I can get these guys into a 300gal pond after the move it'll be a mini-dream come true. Just gotta protect them from the raccoon after that.
 
Those are some fine looking little bullheads! I've caught some that nice before, though not many. :)

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Well, fate conspired, and it looks like I'm gonna have to leave my bullheads behind. A little unplanned trip to the hospital pretty much took up all the funds I was going to use to ship them and get a new setup on arrival. Took a short video of them in their beleaguered, half broken-down aquarium to remember them by :)

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Would love to keep them again some day.
 
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