Hemibagrus nemerus aka False asian red tail

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yep zix thats an albino one

like all hemibagrus they have a mean streak in them most the time they won't live with other fish with out constant fights especially if kept with other catfish most people think catfish can't kill but hemibagrus will prove you wrong
 
I have the same Hemibagrus that is in the big picture above with the plecos in the background. I'm trying to get the planetcatfish folks to tell me if its nemurus or the asian redtail. It's albino, mean as all get out, and has grown from about 3" to about 13" in less than a year. I'm going to have to get a bigger tank in about 5 more inches.
 
BillyReuben;1772407; said:
I have the same Hemibagrus that is in the big picture above with the plecos in the background. I'm trying to get the planetcatfish folks to tell me if its nemurus or the asian redtail. It's albino, mean as all get out, and has grown from about 3" to about 13" in less than a year. I'm going to have to get a bigger tank in about 5 more inches.
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Anymore info on it?
Feeding, tank size, etc?
 
It's a 55gal planted tank, gravel, bubbler, powerhead, CO2 injection, external whisper60 filter. It is the fairly standard aquarium you'd see at the store: too tall, too narrow, and 4' long.

Its tankmate is a common pleco about 5". I fell for the cute little white catfish at the store, and put it in my community tank. Mostly it ate flake food for the first few months, but eventually my other little fish began to dissappear. Now that I've run out of pet fish to feed it, I give it a few (2-3) jumbo tetra cichlidstix every other day, which it attacks with terrifying gusto. I also periodically drop in some algae pellets for the pleco, and the catfish will eat those also. It came 2/3 out of the water to get at one that had lodged behind the powerhead, making me worry that it is only a matter of time before it crawls down the hall and bites me in my bed.
 
Ok, I have a pretty certain species ID, thanks to kind assistance from some planetcatfish experts. The bad news is that it is NOT Hemibagrus at all. The good news is that it is an equally monstrous fish: albino channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. From the photo, perhaps you can understand my error - they really look superficially similar.

Channel cat.jpg
 
I myself have an albino channel cat.
They do look quite similar when younger.
 
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