Piraibia Catfish?

[FuriousFish]

Does anyone on here actually keep any? (I am talking about the 300 pound catfish from the amazon...)
I am very curious! Never seen them in the aquarium trade!


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[wednesday13]

Does anyone on here actually keep any? (I am talking about the 300 pound catfish from the amazon...)
I am very curious! Never seen them in the aquarium trade!


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There's a few floating around...the real ones are around $1-3k if I'm not mistaken. Their price in turn gives you very few owners. There is a similar species of cat more available. it stays smaller and was thought to be the true species of piraiba until recently.


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[FuriousFish]

There's a few floating around...the real ones are around $1-3k if I'm not mistaken. Their price in turn gives you very few owners. There is a similar species of cat more available. it stays smaller and was thought to be the true species of piraiba until recently.


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Does anybody have pics of real piraiba in an aquarium?


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[thebiggerthebetter]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...-difference-from-capepretum&highlight=piraiba

especially page 15 http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...869-Piraiba-pictures/page15&highlight=piraiba

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...litter-box-my-cats-grow-out&highlight=piraiba

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?530609-B-fila-or-B-cap&highlight=piraiba

 

[Chicxulub]

I was gonna say that cgibby had one but Viktor beat me to it.

 

[cgibby]

still have mine about 8 1/2" now pics were taken earlier today it's a shame that these pictures don't display the beautiful irridecence of this fish seen in person also did anyone see the "piraiba" eczs had up on aquabid?


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[Chicxulub]

How's the growth rate on that guy Collin? I figured it would have been quite swift, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[strollo22]

Based on what I've seen, a lot of the longer living, larger growing catfish are notoriously slow growers. Even goonches growth rate isn'll that fast. I suppose it's all relative to length of life


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[Chicxulub]

Based on what I've seen, a lot of the longer living, larger growing catfish are notoriously slow growers. Even goonches growth rate isn'll that fast. I suppose it's all relative to length of life


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I too have come to this conclusion. Given the growth rate of some of the other larger pims however, I rather expected that the king of the SA catfish would grow quickly as well. It doesn't surprise me if they grow slowly though.

 

[cgibby]

I got him in late october at 2" so its ok but by far the quickest of any of the brachy's i've owned


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