A learning story with one of our first hybrids from 2011-2012: https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=33298
In retrospect, I am 100% sure the hybrid died of indigestion as a result of low DO, exactly as it occurred in the case of these RTCs: https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34778
Our very first hybrid from 2010, 4":
A few months later at 10":
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Our first two large rescue hybrids, 2.5', Evans and Lobach, from 2010-2011. In a 4000 gal basement pond 40'x6'x3':
Evans at 2.5', nice straight snout:
Camel-face, deformed Lobach, also 2.5':
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Fast forward. Got three at the moment.
One was rescued from Dayton, Ohio in Mar 2016 at 1.5' and poor shape. It has done well here. This is one of the bigger ones, 2.5'-3', in 4500 gal with a straight snout.
The other bigger one was donated also about 2 years ago from an overcrowded 400 gal tank with six or seven 2' fish in it. It has also done well here. It has the misshaped-snout defect, called "duck bill" or "camel face". Common in these man-made food fish. What we get in the trade are the culls, garbage-gene specimen, from the aquaculture industry in South America.
These two are the greediest and most assertive at the feeding time fish in 4500 gal apart from arapaima. Smart too. They know where and how feed enters the water better than any other fish in the tank!
The third named Hercules was donated about half a year ago at 1'+ and has reached 1.5' in a 240 gal. It took it some time to figure out the diet and get used to it but now it is a hog. Doesn't want pellet though. All about thawed fish. He is starting giving hard time to the false piraiba housed with it, so I am not sure how much longer it will stay in that 240 gal.
The video includes feeding:
In retrospect, I am 100% sure the hybrid died of indigestion as a result of low DO, exactly as it occurred in the case of these RTCs: https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34778
Our very first hybrid from 2010, 4":
A few months later at 10":
...
Our first two large rescue hybrids, 2.5', Evans and Lobach, from 2010-2011. In a 4000 gal basement pond 40'x6'x3':
Evans at 2.5', nice straight snout:
Camel-face, deformed Lobach, also 2.5':
...
Fast forward. Got three at the moment.
One was rescued from Dayton, Ohio in Mar 2016 at 1.5' and poor shape. It has done well here. This is one of the bigger ones, 2.5'-3', in 4500 gal with a straight snout.
The other bigger one was donated also about 2 years ago from an overcrowded 400 gal tank with six or seven 2' fish in it. It has also done well here. It has the misshaped-snout defect, called "duck bill" or "camel face". Common in these man-made food fish. What we get in the trade are the culls, garbage-gene specimen, from the aquaculture industry in South America.
These two are the greediest and most assertive at the feeding time fish in 4500 gal apart from arapaima. Smart too. They know where and how feed enters the water better than any other fish in the tank!
The third named Hercules was donated about half a year ago at 1'+ and has reached 1.5' in a 240 gal. It took it some time to figure out the diet and get used to it but now it is a hog. Doesn't want pellet though. All about thawed fish. He is starting giving hard time to the false piraiba housed with it, so I am not sure how much longer it will stay in that 240 gal.
The video includes feeding:
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