best wet pet catfishes

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pudgeking said:
Ompok catfish are cool looking, and graceful swimmers, interesting to watch. In my experience, though, they are rather shy and skittish, and will spend most of the day hiding if you offer it a cave. I haven't been able to get mine to feed well on anything besides live fish and pieces of fish fillet, but he has recently started to take food from my hand, and is becoming a bit less shy (had him for about 2-3 months). I am not sure that ompoks have the qualities that one might typically associate with a "wet pet" kind of fish, but it would be an interesting choice, certainly.

I believe that vulture catfish are considered to have good personalities.
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How big is it? Does grow fast


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Tayler said:
Get a bullhead, I want one so bad, but law makers in Cali are brain dead.
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Wow. Are you saying bullheads of any species are illegal to keep in California?
 
pudgeking said:
Yea, I wouldn't expect the ompok siluroides to grow much more than a foot long, according to what I've read
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I just picked up two of them two weeks ago at 2.5" and they're some cool fish. I've been reading a fee different things with size I've seen around 12"-18" so I guess I'll have to wait and see. For the first week and a half I feed them cut earthworms and the last half week they've been eating feeder minnows. Mine are a darker color then I've seen and are almost a black molted instead of brown. They look exactly like Wels catfish


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