Big European Catfish

[AndreR]

Hi,

here you can see a fine slideshow concerning my favourite fish:

http://xvella.free.fr/photos/diapo-eng.php?size=2&secs=5&rank=174

also a great film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gst99NATGpo

It can grow up to about 10ft (about 3 meters) and is the largest fish here around, except the Sturgeon, but this one is more or less lost.

Here you can see a quiet big Sturgeon (up to 30ft/9 meters originally)

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/staff/gazrok/fish.jpg

 

[kane1]

DAMN!!!!

 

[WhiteLineRacer]

They are ugly monsters

 

[AndreR]

New Hobby:

Fishbreath-Sniffing

 

[toehead11183]

someone on here will have one in their tank before the year is up!

 

[AndreR]

someone on here will have one in their tank before the year is up!

As Sting says:

It´s probably me

 

[robroy]

Kept one years ago bofore they were banned-mad impulse buy. They are amazing fish with a truly phenomenal growth rate. Very quickly outgrows any tank.

 

[AndreR]

Kept one years ago bofore they were banned-mad impulse buy. They are amazing fish with a truly phenomenal growth rate. Very quickly outgrows any tank.

In a german Predator-Forum I found statements concerning very quick growth for fishes kept at about 23°C the whole year.

Literature shows it quiet slowlier for fished ones.

Finding such a big difference between 12 years or 1 year for 23 inch I think it´s better to keep the fish seasonally at matching outdoor temps.

How quick was yours growing?

 

[robroy]

God this was back in the mid-late 1980's when I was at school-hard to remember. In around year I guess it grew from around 7" to 23" in a 4' long tank.
I gave it to London Zoo Aquarium who informed me later that they traded it with San Diego Seaworld.

 

[AndreR]

God this was back in the mid-late 1980's when I was at school-hard to remember. In around year I guess it grew from around 7" to 23" in a 4' long tank.
I gave it to London Zoo Aquarium who informed me later that they traded it with San Diego Seaworld.

Gosh, that sounds quiet quick and large at last that early.

But that makes it quiet more interesting to me because I can keep it seasonally with lower temps in the winter, but at last I cannot afford more than about 1,500 gal/6,000 liter for that fish by now. So it makes a very big difference if I have to recalculate in 1 year or in about 12

How did you get yours, I thought they are not native outside europe and actually as an ornamental fish it is not really interesting being imported, is it?



Edited because of a calculating mistake