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i was wondering who has the biggest catfish out of everybody. also the smallest (probably a cory)

well my biggest catfish is going to be a 10" bumblebee. smallest will be my stunted rescued pleco which is around 6" right now.

At the store where I worked, I took care of a three and a half foot long Red-Tailed Catfish, as well as young Pygmy Corys.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

wow i'd like some pictures of the RTC, they look beautiful when in a huge tank that fits them.

then maybe throw in a worm on a hook and reel um in lol jk, i only catch channels.

Biggest catfish I've ever looked after if memory serves was a Loricariid called Chaetostoma wuchereri ... but I didn't get to see it reach full size as it disappeared without trace about a month after I bought it ...

Smallest I've kept is Corydoras pygmaeus. Which at the time mystified me because it didn't seem to do well in my aquarium. However I suspect it would do better now because I've since learned about gravel vacs. Which are apparently fairly important for the well being of this fish.

As for Red Tailed Catfishes, biggest I ever encountered was at Liverpool Museum before they had the refit (I think they've since donated it to the Blue Planet Aquarium where I think it lives with their giant Arapaima) - that was a monster. Forget what Planet Catfish says about it "only" reaching 44 inches - this one was easily five feet long. Since then, one of the Practical Fishkeeping writers has been to the Amazon, and encountered a specimen that would, if it hadn't been decapitated for the fish market, been a six foot long catfish. So dear old Phractocephalus hemiolopterus isn't so much a tank buster as a pond buster. The size of pond you'd need for this fish is enormous - try 12 feet square by 4 feet deep. Even that would cramp the style of a really big specimen. An aquarium for this fish is a civil engineering project - after all, we're talking here about a fish that's as big as a Rottweiler dog!


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Smallest catfish I keep is Corydoras Hasbrosus,
at about 1-1.5 inches each.
The biggest cat I keep is only 4 inches LOL,
USD's, imitator, bn, all 4 inches.


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Well, both of mine are small. LOL I probably have some of the smallest Loricarids I have an L-316 Rio Jari pleco that is around 2.5 inches and I have a Queen Arabesque pleco that is probably 3-4 inches. tee hee. The biggest I've ever had was my common pleco. He was around 6-7 inches by the time I took him to the fish store.

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~~Melissa~~
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my smallest is a panda cory and my larges is a common pleco. still only 4.5-5 inches.

-Vincent

Largest I had was my olive royal who reached at least 10" before the external temperature dial to the heater got bumped up past 85F and he didn't survive. Smallest were the otos which spawned for me a few times but over the past year they slowly dissapeared for reasons unknown. Most of them probably just died of old age. Currently I have several clown plecos(3-4" ) and a 6" bn.

almost forgot my ottos, ya they would be my smallest, around 2-3 in.

Ottos, about 1.5 inches

Synodontis eupterus about 10 inches...

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pygmy cories and a salmontail cat at about 12 in

OH TOLEEDY!

Otos for smallest.

Biggest personally is my Lima Shovelnose....she is just over a foot long.

At work we have a 15" RTCXTiger Shovelnose hybrid and a foot long Jurense.

my uncle has my tank now, but he's in control of my old 14 inch common pleco and some 1.5 inch clown plecos.

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The biggest is the BN & the smallest are the Otos. but i keep about 50 Corydoras in between.



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