KEEPING YOUR FAVORITE FISH

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that_fish_Guy said:
My favorite fish would have to be my Albino silurus Glanis. I have always been a catfish keeper at heart. From the time I got into the hobby my mind was set on monsters. I started my first big cat RTC in a 180 then quickly moved him into a 12 foot in diameter 3 foot deep pool in my garage where he got massive. Now I have since gotten the wels several years later. I plan to make him a nice big tank in the garage. But seeing that they grow about a foot a year on average I have a little bit of time to start saving. He is currently in a 110 gallon then will go into my 340 once his is a little larger then into a tank I will build or have made which can adequaely house him...if that does not happen quick enough I will have him in a 12ft diameter 3 ft deep pool temporarily until I can get the build done....I have crushed any future plans I had with the hobby (like cichlid breeding projects or having a rack system throughout the garage) to accommodate this fish, I plan to keep it for life. I really would like to see him hit a nice size. I may not have the nicest car or nicest name brand clothes or an IPhone lol but it just makes sense to put money where I am really interested. Anywas he is just 5 inches or so right now..
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I agree i would rather drive an old crappy honda civic and put money into my favorite hobby then drive a bmw
 
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Achilles1763 said:
That_fish_guy kudos for the commitment... But a wels!? That's the one that has grown to 12-15ft and anywhere between 120-300lbs in the Ebro river in Spain?
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A 15 foot wells is highly unlikely, and would be pushing 40-50 years old...in Spain they are often feed heavily for tourism. I would imagine the likely size of a wild specimen would be 8-12 foot and in captivity I would have to guess 6-10 foot but you never know
 
Yeah you maybe right... But still 6-10 feet!? Sounds like a swimming pool job... You dude are a monster fish keeper lol
 
SandNukka15 said:
I had that mind set about huge cats as well but if u think about it even with the huge quantities of rtc and tsn being sold. They will all have a better and healthier life with us mfk members then they would if the next 15 year old kid that walks into the store buys it and keeps it in a 75 its whole life.

They will never stop selling these fish so the way i see it is if any of us can at least house it for a while we should. Give it a better life then with a noob who would give it gill curl in less then a day lol
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100% agreed. but with each cat that doesn't find a home after 1-2 foot marks then thats one less inexperienced jackass that buys one, one less LFS that keeps a stock of them and one more step in the right direction for our hobby. I completely appreciate the people that run monster fish rescues, my hats to them, but I can't keep any of the monster cats for life so even me resuing one from a 75 isn't helping. I'd kill to do what that guy in...Florida? (I cant remember the user name on here! the guy with a monster cat rescue aquarium esentially) is doing but I don't have the room so keeping myself and others from having a redtail, tsn or hybrid is the best i can do.
 
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predatorkeeper87 said:
100% agreed. but with each cat that doesn't find a home after 1-2 foot marks then thats one less inexperienced jackass that buys one, one less LFS that keeps a stock of them and one more step in the right direction for our hobby. I completely appreciate the people that run monster fish rescues, my hats to them, but I can't keep any of the monster cats for life so even me resuing one from a 75 isn't helping. I'd kill to do what that guy in...Florida? (I cant remember the user name on here! the guy with a monster cat rescue aquarium esentially) is doing but I don't have the room so keeping myself and others from having a redtail, tsn or hybrid is the best i can do.
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I would love to rescue some cats as well but with the space, water, filteration, heating, feeding it would be too expensive for me to do with my current set ups

If i lived down south i def would have an outdoor pond with these beauties
 
Does this thread derailed? :P
I thought OP want our members post their own current keep favorite fish.
I'm waiting for someone wish to keep a humpback whale...
 
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