any chance of new pic of some of them as they have been removed or moved from the linked site.

even in my book it has the ID sharks marked up as 40" in wild and 13" in tanks.

Would be pretty cool to beabe to house a full grown one and not just in a pond so you get thefull beuty!!.

Ive had 2 Irr. sharks for Three years now and they only grew anout 4 in. since then. They seem to have there grow spurts now and then, but I really like em. Really good Bottom feeders.

Seriously! And I thought that Zebras got big! How did you even catch that fish?

This post has been edited by akucic: Sep 12 2004, 04:25 PM

What about a pic of someone holding an adult black finned shark catfish?

I got an irredecent shark about a week ago, 3" so far. He is cute to watch but too stupid to find food on the surface. New 55gal tank, 12 guppies to start cycle 3 weeks ago, now 10 guppies, 20 babies and shark.

i cant see the pics

my LFS has a 180 set up with like 3 or 4 Id sharks. They look so small in that thing. The biggest one is like 2.5 feet and can barely turn around.

If you don't mind me saying that tank is VERY overstocked.... Your gibbiceps plec will go well over 12", the BGK may get too big and as you know the Irr. Sharks should aswell. Leaving them in your tank to become stunted is bad practice. You should return them to the fish shop, or even better find a public aquarium or someone with a tropical pond that will house them.

Ben

If only it were possible to do this in the shops themselves.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...antcatfish.html


I have no idea how anyone ever even contemplated letting this beast get into the aquarium trade.

OK, that just makes me hungry. Nothing like some catfish, deep-fried with beer batter.

This is what i am told we are eating when we eat at long john silvers..I dont know how true this is I dont eat fish at all. nothing no shrimp lobster or any thing, I like to see them to much alive so I wont eat them. I dont knock anyone who does but not me....

WOW!
Look at this one! IT IS HUGE!!! 646 pounds!:


Planet Catfish : 646 lb. catfish

****** They are some big catfishes, i was looking in my LFS the other day and was tempted to buy some maybe i won't now- However what you have to take into consideration is the fish only grows to it's limit within the tank size.




Please watch your language!

This post has been edited by Inchworm: Dec 24 2005, 02:32 PM

And there lieth the road to damnation...

Unfortunately for aquarists, very few fish actually "grow to the size of the tank", whatever the tropical fish stores say. While it's fair to say most fish stay somewhat smaller in captivity than their maximum size in the wild, this is usually a factor of 10 or 20%. Many is the oscar or tinfoil barb or plec that has wound up too big for the 60 cm aquarium it originally inhabited.

Really, you should only ever buy a fish once you know its adult size and only if you have a tank suitable for a fish of that size.

Cheers,

Neale

i used to have one, the reason being they most look like a shark out of all the other tropical fish!!!!
Anyone care to prove me wrong???

And bloody hell do those things look massivemine died of white spot so i wasnt unleashed its full wrath

hiya all
well looking in the pfk mag there has just been a thing on tank busting catfish, which is whats on here as well i think one of the things that should be done to help people avoid buying these fish without realising is also post pics of them when they are smaller or juvies so people know what they look like in the lfs.
when you look at the pics in here now you would never realise that they were the same as some of the fish sold as ok in lfs.

wow there huge

That is absolutely mindblowing! You'd think fish stores would know that nobody can care for fish that size and would stop selling them.