Marble red tail catfish?

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I went to a pet shop where I sometimes buy food for my Oscar. Today they had these catfish called "marble red tail catfish". Now I was curious and was thinking of picking one up (was only 12$). But I didn't because I had a feeling that it was maybe just a typical RTC with a creative marketing name. They looked like RTC babies, just no red which is why I'm not sure and hope to get maybe an intelligent insight from you fine folk

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RTC babies have no red. it develops later. pls snap a good pic and we'll be able to tell you. RTCxTSN is usually called a leopard red tail catfish (along those kinds of names). Marble RTC may mean marble x RTC hybrid too but these are quite rare, almost never seen.
 
quasar said:
how big would a marble X RTC get?[/QU Between 3'-4'. Mine hit the 2' mark a little over a year from 3.5" when i bought it. Apparently most of the ones bought died within a few weeks of purchase from what i've read on mfk. Not sure any are left from that batch. Would be huge by now.
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necrocanis said:
Between 3'-4'. Mine hit the 2' mark a little over a year from 3.5" when i bought it. Apparently most of the ones bought died within a few weeks of purchase from what i've read on mfk. Not sure any are left from that batch. Would be huge by now.
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Really? Thanks Cliff. New piece of knowledge to me (all of it came from you :) :) ). Looks like NOT a viable hybrid.

To the rest: it is a huge, highly-unlikely-to-be-right supposition that what the OP saw was achara/marble/leiarius x RTC hybrid at all.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
Really? Thanks Cliff. New piece of knowledge to me (all of it came from you :) :) ). Looks like NOT a viable hybrid.

To the rest: it is a huge, highly-unlikely-to-be-right supposition that what the OP saw was achara/marble/leiarius x RTC hybrid at all.
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I tend to agree. Anytime I have ever seen this for sale everyone buys them up really quick. Most are recieved already sick, and die quickly. I had to do constant daily or twice daily water changes to keep mine alive after reading on other's expiriences. I would buy one again with the knowledge I have from the first one. Grows fairly quickly, but needs a lot of attention in the begining. I doubt any lfs have them for sale. More than likely somone got in some leiarius and when they looked them up saw a pic of one of the hybrids on MFK labeled as MRTC as that was what we chose to call it lol.
 
Interesting. God I learn a lot from you, Necro. Great to have you commenting (again?).
 
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