Ive recently aquired about a 8" blue catfish it was sold to me as a "channel cat" however anyone thats caught these clearly knows the differance. It is really neat watching a fish i have caught in my tank and now i understand why there so easy to fish for this thing is litterally a vaccuum cleaner when it comes to shrimp pellets
Blue catfish
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Awesome post some pictures I love blue catfish I know they get huge tho haha I would love to see him
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I have to agree...its very, very unlikely that you found a blue for sale. I would love to see some pics, and be proven wrong though!
Channels routinely get 3+ feet in the wild, but that doesn't stop anyone. My personal belief is that channels are more popular simply as a by product of their greater popularity in fish farming for food. There's enough giant fish out there being kept in aquaria that the size of a blue cat is highly unlikely to be the limiting factor in it's being kept.
^And this is why I've been a member for three years and hardly post.
Because we all know that a six inch blue cat fingerling will be 80 pounds in a year and a half, it's not like it takes 20-25 years to achieve that tremendous size or anything. It's not like the vast majority of blues are often (not always) the exact same size bracket as channels where the species are conspecific. It's not like the three largest Ictalurus fish species are endemic to similar, but parallel habitats that allows blues to achieve greater size than channels, and channels to get larger than whites. It's not like the same three fish species introduced to the same body of water will all end up achieving roughly the same maximum size in said body of water, assuming the body of water and it's ability to support fauna (read: not artificially supplemented by man in a place such as a fish farm) is small enough to limit the size of the larger species.
Yeah, they can't be compared at all. Sorry.
Because we all know that a six inch blue cat fingerling will be 80 pounds in a year and a half, it's not like it takes 20-25 years to achieve that tremendous size or anything. It's not like the vast majority of blues are often (not always) the exact same size bracket as channels where the species are conspecific. It's not like the three largest Ictalurus fish species are endemic to similar, but parallel habitats that allows blues to achieve greater size than channels, and channels to get larger than whites. It's not like the same three fish species introduced to the same body of water will all end up achieving roughly the same maximum size in said body of water, assuming the body of water and it's ability to support fauna (read: not artificially supplemented by man in a place such as a fish farm) is small enough to limit the size of the larger species.
Yeah, they can't be compared at all. Sorry.
My LFS had them once, but i was unable to buy at the time. They were blues, I checked them over real good. And if you keep the temperatures right and don't over feed, they grow at a regular rate, not over the top like when they are wrongly put in a tropical tank. but they do grow slower than channels already. Good luck with your fish!