i am the catfish king(wels catfish)

[Acheloos]

Here you can see several record wels catfish: http://www.fisch-hitparade.de/fischhitparade/all/67-wels_waller.html
Look at the lengths, even the largest ones are "only" in the 2,5m region, and there is also only a handfull of them. This are all extremely exceptional fish. If this species could be really reach 5m, this would be average and not record sizes. The actual largest confirmed specimen of 2,78m and 144kg which was caught at the Po Delta, Italy, can be seen here: http://www.karpfen.ch/html/bigfish/....1&PHPSESSID=87f41b4d026fa15cdc90b407d0f87ef5
An additional note: Even very large fish like this one looks much lesser impressive if there is no forced perspective as it is used for many photos made by anglers and hunters to make their catch looking bigger.

 

[oscar n redtail cat]

Well, this is again the false information which circulates in the web and even in many books. To repeat it: Silurus glanis don´t reach lengths of 5m. This dates comes only from a handfull of old stories. I checked their background and looked for scientific dates about the sizes of Silurus in this regions and there was no indication that they would grow there especially big. Furthermore the the length-weight-relation is completely false for this alleged specimens. A hypothetic 5m wels would weigh easily well over 700kg. To stay at facts, the heaviest confirmed specimen was 144kg, and it was highly exceptional.
If you look for photos of the wels you will find many big and even some gigantic specimens. But look at the sizes, none of them is over 3m. The ones over 2,5m are already extremely rare, and the bigger ones even more. If this species would really reach 15 feet, don´t you think it is strange that you can´t find one of at least 3m?
The 2,78m specimen was really abnormal, and it was a monster. You won´t hardly ever get something like this in your aquarium or pond, perhaps only if you keep it in warm water and feed it all the time for decades and also only if you get a specimen with exeptional genetic conditions.

that a bit of good news then but still a big fish im getting rid of my perruno/marble cat and might get rid of the niger catfish aswell and just keep the rtc and wels

 

[jcardona1]

whole lotta talking going on, but i havent seen no pics, just a little drawing! pics or shenanigans!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[oscar n redtail cat]

will be some loading them up

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

I know that you love it and that but £900 is a hell of lot of moneyand you need a pond ASAP! especially if it gets to 4' in a year! your biggest tank is 5x2x2! You could have bought a lot of fish for that sort of money!

 

[oscar n redtail cat]

ino im getting the money for the pond and thats if i feed him every day witch i am going 2 feed him 1 a week

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

ino im getting the money for the pond and thats if i feed him every day witch i am going 2 feed him 1 a week

Why didnt you setup the pondbefore the fish? I dont men to sond nasty but damn theygrow fast even on 1 fed per week

 

[Acheloos]

jcardona1, I posted two links in my last comment with a lot of photos, just look at them.
And for Oscr: Just think about the fact that you have a really interesting fact. Under good conditions it can actually grow a length of 1m in a comparably short time, and then it will be already much bigger than most other aquarium-or pond fish in your country. If you get it some more years, you have good chances that it will even one of the biggest pond fish in GB.
I made a lot of research in the net and looked what people wrote who keep them in their ponds, and they will really never reach monster size, but they are really easy to keep if the pond is big enough. You should also give them some sort of underwater shelter like a barrel or so.

 

[jcardona1]

jcardona1, I posted two links in my last comment with a lot of photos, just look at them.
And for Oscr: Just think about the fact that you have a really interesting fact. Under good conditions it can actually grow a length of 1m in a comparably short time, and then it will be already much bigger than most other aquarium-or pond fish in your country. If you get it some more years, you have good chances that it will even one of the biggest pond fish in GB.
I made a lot of research in the net and looked what people wrote who keep them in their ponds, and they will really never reach monster size, but they are really easy to keep if the pond is big enough. You should also give them some sort of underwater shelter like a barrel or so.

yeah i know what it looks like, but i just want to see the one that HE bought!!!

 

[Acheloos]

Oh sorry, I misunderstood you, I thought you did mean me.