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Man I would have loved to have gotten my hands on one of those before last weekend so I could have put it in my buddies pond when I stocked the new Blue and Channel Cats. Would have made a nice surprise catch several years from now
 
Nice, well here is a pic of your new little buddy.

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OMG he's so Gorgeous! In a very ugly way lol. Just to think when I was in North carolina I ate them all the time!!! lol.

one more shock and awe pic

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Haven't seen that one before! Nice!!! Hopefully I can get a tank up and running to suit his adult size before he gets too big. If not might have to go for option 2 (the grill) :popcorn:

Man I would have loved to have gotten my hands on one of those before last weekend so I could have put it in my buddies pond when I stocked the new Blue and Channel Cats. Would have made a nice surprise catch several years from now

I wish I lived just a little farther south so that I could set up a nice native catfish pond. Montana gets way too cold for most native catfish though. Channels are only present in the warmer regions of the state, bullheads, and stone cats are the only ones that are here. lol.
 
Sorry i've been busy the past week or so and hadn't had much time to post on here but as a reply to my last post: The platyneum is coming into my lfs from rehoboth aquatics(hopefully before I go to north carolina for the holidays) and I wish I still had that albino wels but my goonch ripped it to bits about a week after I got it from wes. Cliff i'm glad to see your finally getting a flathead. @ amazon, I was just at the aquarium about 2 weeks ago and they are doing major renovations to the big tank according to one of the staff it is expanding from 200 to 560,000 gallons!!!!! They have apparently lost a lot of stock and the only cats that I could see were the big rtc :(.


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The platyneum is coming into my lfs from rehoboth aquatics(hopefully before I go to north carolina for the holidays) and I wish I still had that albino wels but my goonch ripped it to bits about a week after I got it from wes. Cliff i'm glad to see your finally getting a flathead. @ amazon, I was just at the aquarium about 2 weeks ago and they are doing major renovations to the big tank according to one of the staff it is expanding from 200 to 560,000 gallons!!!!! They have apparently lost a lot of stock and the only cats that I could see were the big rtc :(.

By LFS to you mean Fish Gallery? If so do they have more than one or just a special order you got?

With regards to the DWA that's awesome and that tank was definitely in need of renovation for the filtration at least for a while now. I've noticed the water staying greener and cloudier the last year or so than it was previously. Hopefully the Fasciatum still lives and was just hiding out in the back side of the tank somewhere. I really wish they would reconsider the stocking of that thing because it could really be improved with more diversity instead of a ton of RTC's and Arapaimas with not much else. That tank would be a thousand times better if they improved the current in various parts substantially (waterfalls or river style inlets into the main tank) and added Planiceps again like they used to have as well as Corruscans and a Piraiba or two. Large Peacock Bass in multiple species would make a great addition as well along with several shoals of Prochilodus in various species and more Payara. They had a decent sized Armatus in there last time that was maybe 15" but I bet that got smoked by one of the larger fish. Honestly if they went down to 1 RTC and 1 or 2 Arapaima they would be able to house some of the smaller cooler species without losing so many to predation and this would help a ton with their water quality issues not having as many monster eaters and more diversity in the lower portions of the food chain.

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1 Cephalosilurus apurensis/ Apure Jelly Catfish far and away my favorite catfish and the very fish that led me to this site and really got me into monster fish keeping x1
2 Asterophysus batrachus/ Gulper Catfish my second favorite catfish love the way they move around so clumsily essentially waddling from here to there x2
3 Trachycorystes trachycorystes/ Black Driftwood Catfish my third favorite catfish very personable and vocal x4
4 Pseudopimelodus bufonius/ Giant Bumblebee Catfish/ Jello Catfish
5 Hemibagrus nemurus/ Asian Redtail Catfish
6 Phractocephalus hemioliopterus/ Redtail Catfish
7 Leiarius marmoratus/ Achara Catfish/ Marbled Pim
8 Megalodoras uranoscopus/ Giant Talking Catfish
9 Ompok bimaculatus/ Two Spot Glass Catfish
10 Panaque cf. nigrolineatus/ Watermelon Royal Pleco/ L330
11 Pseudorinelepis sp./Orange Cheek Pleco/ L95
12 Panaque sp./ Dull Eyed Royal Pleco/ L191
13 Pseudorinelepis genibarbis/ Pinecone Pleco/ L152
14 Pimelodus ornatus/ Ornate Pim
15 Brachyplatystoma juruense
16 Pterodoras granulosus
17 Achara/Tiger Shovelnose Hybrid
18 RTC/Tiger Shovelnose Hybrid
19 Liosomadoras morrowi/ False Jaguar Catfish
20 Liosomadoras oncinus/ Jaguar Catfish x3

That's my list as far as I can remember off the top of my head, if any more occur to me I'll add to the list.
 
Sorry i've been busy the past week or so and hadn't had much time to post on here but as a reply to my last post: The platyneum is coming into my lfs from rehoboth aquatics(hopefully before I go to north carolina for the holidays) and I wish I still had that albino wels but my goonch ripped it to bits about a week after I got it from wes. Cliff i'm glad to see your finally getting a flathead. @ amazon, I was just at the aquarium about 2 weeks ago and they are doing major renovations to the big tank according to one of the staff it is expanding from 200 to 560,000 gallons!!!!! They have apparently lost a lot of stock and the only cats that I could see were the big rtc :(.


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That's a huge tank!!!! :) Wish I was spending the holidays in North Carolina. That's where I'm from and all my family lives there in Hickory.

By LFS to you mean Fish Gallery? If so do they have more than one or just a special order you got?

With regards to the DWA that's awesome and that tank was definitely in need of renovation for the filtration at least for a while now. I've noticed the water staying greener and cloudier the last year or so than it was previously. Hopefully the Fasciatum still lives and was just hiding out in the back side of the tank somewhere. I really wish they would reconsider the stocking of that thing because it could really be improved with more diversity instead of a ton of RTC's and Arapaimas with not much else. That tank would be a thousand times better if they improved the current in various parts substantially (waterfalls or river style inlets into the main tank) and added Planiceps again like they used to have as well as Corruscans and a Piraiba or two. Large Peacock Bass in multiple species would make a great addition as well along with several shoals of Prochilodus in various species and more Payara. They had a decent sized Armatus in there last time that was maybe 15" but I bet that got smoked by one of the larger fish. Honestly if they went down to 1 RTC and 1 or 2 Arapaima they would be able to house some of the smaller cooler species without losing so many to predation and this would help a ton with their water quality issues not having as many monster eaters and more diversity in the lower portions of the food chain.

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lol, you trying to snap one up? :) I've had lots of trouble with trying to receive one alive.

Shark Catfish,Eclipse Catfish

Both awesome catfish!!!

1 Cephalosilurus apurensis/ Apure Jelly Catfish far and away my favorite catfish and the very fish that led me to this site and really got me into monster fish keeping x1
2 Asterophysus batrachus/ Gulper Catfish my second favorite catfish love the way they move around so clumsily essentially waddling from here to there x2
3 Trachycorystes trachycorystes/ Black Driftwood Catfish my third favorite catfish very personable and vocal x4
4 Pseudopimelodus bufonius/ Giant Bumblebee Catfish/ Jello Catfish
5 Hemibagrus nemurus/ Asian Redtail Catfish
6 Phractocephalus hemioliopterus/ Redtail Catfish
7 Leiarius marmoratus/ Achara Catfish/ Marbled Pim
8 Megalodoras uranoscopus/ Giant Talking Catfish
9 Ompok bimaculatus/ Two Spot Glass Catfish
10 Panaque cf. nigrolineatus/ Watermelon Royal Pleco/ L330
11 Pseudorinelepis sp./Orange Cheek Pleco/ L95
12 Panaque sp./ Dull Eyed Royal Pleco/ L191
13 Pseudorinelepis genibarbis/ Pinecone Pleco/ L152
14 Pimelodus ornatus/ Ornate Pim
15 Brachyplatystoma juruense
16 Pterodoras granulosus
17 Achara/Tiger Shovelnose Hybrid
18 RTC/Tiger Shovelnose Hybrid
19 Liosomadoras morrowi/ False Jaguar Catfish
20 Liosomadoras oncinus/ Jaguar Catfish x3

That's my list as far as I can remember off the top of my head, if any more occur to me I'll add to the list.

Those are some awesome monster catfish!!!

only one I have in my personal stock is a 19 and a half yeard old Morrowi catfish.

Liosomadoras morrowi? If so I would love to see some pics......:)
 
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