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There are multiple species of silurus, silurus glanis is the biggest of them and illegal in the US. But we are allowed to have “Chinese wels” silurus soldatovi and silurus meridionalis which stay smaller.
Great looking fish. Certainly looks like soldatovi there.
Really weird which fish you are and are not allowed to keep, but same as here I guess.
Really weird which fish you are and are not allowed to keep, but same as here I guess.
Coming up on a month of owning the soldatovi. During a large water change I took some measurements of a couple fish. Soldatovi is 7” whereas when I purchased it was just under 5”. This is interesting to me becuase other reports of people have trouble getting them to grow for the first few months. I must be doing something right. Also I have Notoglanidium macrostoma and Rhinodoras dorbignyi being added to the collect this week. I’m building a monster plywood tank as well. Documenting the process and will post in a thread when finished. Plans are 16’x4’x3’. Housing Chinese wels, granulosus, silver arowana, irwini cat, possible niger ripsaw cat.
IIRC you got the fish from PredatoryFins who list them as chinese wels aka meridionalis, $35, normal colored.
Only Wes lists his as soldatovi and his are golden variety. I've not seen one of these yet. Has anyone bought one of this on MFK?
While your fish appears different from what we came to know as meridionalis to a quick glance, especially in the lower jaw, I am not sold on its ID as soldatovi and tend to think more work and digging and evidence is needed before we could call your specimen comfortably a soldatovi. Just my 2 cents.
IDK if this is typo or what but it looks like you are erroneously calling chinese wels the soldatovi while it is the meridionalis.
Only Wes lists his as soldatovi and his are golden variety. I've not seen one of these yet. Has anyone bought one of this on MFK?
While your fish appears different from what we came to know as meridionalis to a quick glance, especially in the lower jaw, I am not sold on its ID as soldatovi and tend to think more work and digging and evidence is needed before we could call your specimen comfortably a soldatovi. Just my 2 cents.
IDK if this is typo or what but it looks like you are erroneously calling chinese wels the soldatovi while it is the meridionalis.
You are right about the needing more defensive evidence on proper ID. To me calling my supposed soldatovi a Chinese wels,I get lazy and rather than typing soldatovi I just slapped on the label Chinese wels.
thebiggerthebetter
for the time being. What should I refer to my specimen as? Just call him “silurus” lol
fugupuff
do you have any images or input on how you seperate soldatovi and meridionalis in your mind. As far as how Rod with predatory fins labels his fish he hasent a clue in hell what his fish is past the price tag.
thebiggerthebetter
for the time being. What should I refer to my specimen as? Just call him “silurus” lol
fugupuff
do you have any images or input on how you seperate soldatovi and meridionalis in your mind. As far as how Rod with predatory fins labels his fish he hasent a clue in hell what his fish is past the price tag.
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I love this! i'm a huge catfish lover too, I have a gulper a jag, syno decorus, channel and some corys
Yes, I'd call it a Silurus sp. and would make it my first priority to figure out the species ID, read the revision, FishBase, etc. and find out how to tell soldatovi from meridionalis and from all other genus members.
As you can see, it is not an easy task, and like all vendors Rod goes by what his suppliers call their fish, if it is something poorly known or uncommon. You and I still don't know it and we don't deal with hundreds of fish weekly, so I don't see how I'd expect Rod to know. But at least he knows what he bought it as from his suppliers.
Is this the fish you bought? $35 on sale, was $45 https://www.predatoryfins.com/product-page/chinese-wels
Rod is calling it a Chinese wels aka meridionalis and he attached this photo... which upon search on Google I found out is a photo of wels aka glanis... so this is not helpful, I agree, even misleading.... but with such a specialty fish, I believe buyer must research, knowing full well that vendor has no time for it...
As you can see, it is not an easy task, and like all vendors Rod goes by what his suppliers call their fish, if it is something poorly known or uncommon. You and I still don't know it and we don't deal with hundreds of fish weekly, so I don't see how I'd expect Rod to know. But at least he knows what he bought it as from his suppliers.
Is this the fish you bought? $35 on sale, was $45 https://www.predatoryfins.com/product-page/chinese-wels
Rod is calling it a Chinese wels aka meridionalis and he attached this photo... which upon search on Google I found out is a photo of wels aka glanis... so this is not helpful, I agree, even misleading.... but with such a specialty fish, I believe buyer must research, knowing full well that vendor has no time for it...
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