GUYS ANOTHER ONE FOR YOU WIZ FISH KIDS. OK how long does it take for a well fed rtc to get to 2ft. FROM 2" TO 2FT IN YEARS 
red tail catfish HOW BIG
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BTW, by well fed, I hope you mean; receiving a balanced diet with the proper number of fasting days as the catfish grows. And not; keeping the cat stuffed to the gills in poor quality feeders until he's rolling on his own belly and dying slowly of nitrite poisoning from his own wastes.
Lots of w/c any food from sinking pellets,feeders,shrimp,krill,worms outher goodies like beefheart etc.
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Gut-loaded shiners, gut-loaded crayfish, catfish nuggets, trout/tilapia fillets, earthworms, trimmed beef heart, sinking catfish pellets, raw shell-on shrimp, "donated" tropicals, cleaned squid, shelled land snails, tadpoles, frogs, etc.
Got mine at 6". Fed it daily with one fasting day for purging. Once it hit a foot, I fed it 3 days on and one day of fasting. At 2ft, fed it on alternate days. As they grow, their growth rate will incrementally slow down. So, will their activity level. That's the reason for the step ups in the number of fasting days. It's all meant to reduce the risk of nitrite poisoning (Methemoglobin) which is the leading killer of aquarium-kept RTCs.
My last pair reached 30" before a stupid (on my part) water change mistake killed them off via hypothermia and chlorine shock.
anywhere from a year and a half to two years to reach the two foot mark. Some members report 20" in just over a year.