Chaca chaca cat?

[smoosh]

8 inches is an absolutely bogus size... they get pretty big but grow relatively slow for a big cat. Heres a video of one thats around 19 inches.

[video=youtube;WLzn1_YN7Yo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLzn1_YN7Yo[/video]

They hardly ever move and prefer to bury themselves in substrate and wait for unsuspecting prey of swallowable size to meander by then they strike. I love them and hope to get a trio of them pretty soon....remind me of less active smaller goonch catfish.

Video is labeled as a pacman fish... The one in looking at is a chaca chaca and all the sites I've seen with info on them says 8" max... How big
They may get in the wild may certainly be different but who knows?


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[Egon]

Yeah Packman and Chaca are often confused. The packman gets way bigger!

 

[arowanaryan]

yup screwed that one up lmao! should've noticed from the more square head of the chaca they were different.

 

[MFKPBASS]

Pacman!

 

[leavemeuntitled]

very cute and sneaky cat!

 

[lix.ma14]

8 inches is an absolutely bogus size... they get pretty big but grow relatively slow for a big cat. Heres a video of one thats around 19 inches.

[video=youtube;WLzn1_YN7Yo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLzn1_YN7Yo[/video]

They hardly ever move and prefer to bury themselves in substrate and wait for unsuspecting prey of swallowable size to meander by then they strike. I love them and hope to get a trio of them pretty soon....remind me of less active smaller goonch catfish.

completely different fish!

 

[kevinfleming21]

8 inches is an absolutely bogus size... they get pretty big but grow relatively slow for a big cat. Heres a video of one thats around 19 inches.

[video=youtube;WLzn1_YN7Yo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLzn1_YN7Yo[/video]

They hardly ever move and prefer to bury themselves in substrate and wait for unsuspecting prey of swallowable size to meander by then they strike. I love them and hope to get a trio of them pretty soon....remind me of less active smaller goonch catfish.

You are confusing two different species. Pacmans and Chaca Chaca are not the same.

 

[mikee870]

do you know why they call it chaca chaca, its because when you take the fish off the water it produces the sound "chaca".. an oddball indeed

 

[projectile]

They are also called the frog mouth catfish.
seems they imitate the frog sounds and gobble up the attracted frogs.

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[Egon]

They are also called the frog mouth catfish.
seems they imitate the frog sounds and gobble up the attracted frogs.

Yeah and I have a bridge for sale......