And I just forgot that there is a big breeder which only produces wels for consumption, what could be also interesting:
http://www.wallerzucht.de/
http://www.wallerzucht.de/
Looking for captive Wels catfish
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If stores are getting shipments of babies, some one has got to be breeding them. I think it would be best to contact the stores and see who they got them from. I wonder if the myths of 500 pound catfish are true.
Those myths are most probably not true. The largest confirmed specimen weighed 152 kg, and this was really very very exceptional. There are reports of larger ones caught by commercial fishermen, but none of them was confirmed.
Yes, this stupid 4,70 m (sometimes 5 m) which circulates in the net and even literature since decades...The 2,40 m figure is actually not the actual record, the length record was 2,78 m. But 2,40 are already very unusual and freakish. Now if you look at the comparison with the hypothetic 2,70 m giant, you can see how much bigger it would have to be, around eight times the weight of a 2,40 m specimen, which is already a giant itself. The fact that the alleged weight of the obscure giants is often cited in the 300-400 kg region, shows alone how ridiculous and obviously untrue this dates are, because a real wels of this size would weigh much more.
