My other passion...monster fish!

Hi all I just wanted to share some pictures of my other passion. Monster fish keeping. I currently own a red tailed catfish which with right care can reach 5' easy. I have a planiceps catfish who also can reach that size or larger. And last I have a red belly pacu which can get to about 2'. I am building a heated indoor pond for them so they wont be kept cramped for long. :) without further adieu my fish!

Muffy...my planicep
http://tapatalk.com/mu/2088a259-3384-4fdb.jpg

Milton....my red tailed catfish
http://tapatalk.com/mu/2088a259-33b5-c904.jpg

I don't have any good pictures of my pacu (Gertrude) but I will try to get some...

PS the pond is a 8x8x3 and is going in my bedroom. :)
Kevin Bullis

Oh my goodness. The is the CUTEST little fish that I have ever seen. But how does it breath out of water?:confused:

that redtail will get huge i seen the guy on river monsters pull one of those out that was easily 4 feet long and they are a beautiful red color as adults if only i had the room for something like that

He was being dry measured to get an accurate length....he has been growing an inch a week and will until about 2' he will hit 2' by the end of his first year. Same with my planiceps. Also fyi Jeremy Wade is my idol!

Kevin Bullis

I had a red tail that would eat everything. Even ate a fish the same size as him. He's about 3ft now at the pet store I used to work at. They've got a tank of big fish and had to put bigger fish in the tank because it was eating everything.

That's how rtc are...you can't keep.really anything but fish bigger than it with them....hence why I have mostly large catfish species.

Kevin Bullis

i love watching that show but it makes me think wat could be in the local lake next time i go scuba diving lol

Snakehead.....they are coming...:p

Kevin Bullis

Cool looking fish! I'm seriously considering a pond. I love snakeheads too. I used to keep piranha but lost them in a week long power outage a few years ago. It hurt so bad I kept my tank dry for a year! Here's the new occupant :)

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...iger_oscar.jpg

Regards,

B

I'm big time into Tropical Fish as well, but currently don't have a tank running. I love the monsters! I go on Monster Fish Keepers and just drool at all of the cool fish. Cool rtc... any updated shots of it?

I go on monster fish keepers daily. I'm diskboy12 on there and am running the 2011 rtc growing contest. Here is an updated shot of both my monster cats. The planiceps doesn't stop moving so his shot isn't the best.

http://tapatalk.com/mu/2088a259-8f25-ca15.jpg

http://tapatalk.com/mu/2088a259-8f36-645f.jpg

Kevin Bullis

river monsters is a good show i seen those catfish get monstrous on there as well!nice fishies you got there. im gettin a 55gl for my convict,gonna find him a lady as well and add an oscar possibly(dunno if the tank is big enough).oscars are brutal.

:fishslap: haha found this earlier couldnt resist putting it up on here

A single Oscar needs a tank of atleast 75 gallons...and I wouldn't mix them because a breeding pair WILL kill an adult Oscar.

Kevin Bullis

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A single Oscar needs a tank of atleast 75 gallons...and I wouldn't mix them because a breeding pair WILL kill an adult Oscar.

Kevin Bullis

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scratch that idea then hahaha..whoa pocket sized monsters!!!

Exactly!

Kevin Bullis

nice fish! my roommate has a TSN and a TSN/RTC Hybrid both are about 10-12 inches

Nice catfish!

Your bed room must be huge!

I would love to own one of the snakehead species, sucks that they are illegal!

Anyone here keep any species of mantis shrimp?
Difficult to keep in a tank with any other animals, and they are capable of shattering a glass aquarium, but they are amazing crustaceans!

They create super cavitation bubbles when they attack prey and the interior of the cavitation can reach temperatures higher than the surface of the sun! You can even see a flash of light as their forelimbs strike!

Pistol shrimp are pretty damn amazing as well! They kill fish at range by snapping the claws shut at amazing speed, the shockwave kills the fish!

Nice Catfish, I used to have a monster Giraffe Catfish that i grew up from a pup. I loved that guy. They are selling Red Snakehead and Cobra Snakeheads up here in our fish stores.

I used to have a Amazon Red Tail. We had to get rid of him when we moved though, he was about 1.5 foot...we hand fed him frozen crill. He was awesome.

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He was being dry measured to get an accurate length....he has been growing an inch a week and will until about 2' he will hit 2' by the end of his first year. Same with my planiceps. Also fyi Jeremy Wade is my idol!

Kevin Bullis

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jeremy wade is the best.....i hope i get to meet him one day!

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Pistol shrimp are pretty damn amazing as well! They kill fish at range by snapping the claws shut at amazing speed, the shockwave kills the fish!

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Pistols aren't too destructive! I kept a breeding pair of bullseye pistols for several years until my eel found and ate them. But until then my wrasse would try to hunt them and get popped in the face all the time. He would get spooked away, but he'd always try again, no harm done. I was shot several times as well and it feels like a quick rush of water. I can only see it harming nothing but the smallest of shrimp or fish.

I'd try a mantis but I know if I set up another tank I'd just put an eel in it.

Very nice catfish, too. Got to love the monsters.

Nice fish! I hope to one day get into keeping big fish. I'd love to see a pic of the pacu. We sell them where I work and you wouldn't believe how small of tanks people keep them in. The indoor pond idea sounds awesome!

i looked up the mantis shrimp.beautiful colors on some and ferocious they are.:gj:

Nice little monster in the making!

Monster Fish are also a passion of mine! Here are a few of my monsters!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...y/Arowana3.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...y/Arowana4.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...y/DSC_0176.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...y/DSC_0035.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...DSC_0136-1.jpg

First post on BP.net, did someone say mantis?

This lil guy lives in my 4'x3' frag tank about 2 feet from my bp!
http://tapatalk.com/mu/6c6bff6e-819a-6c23.jpg