Largest Cat You've Kept / Seen in captivity

cubano · Jan 2, 2004

What's the largest cat you've ever kept or seen in captivity.

Largest I've kept was a 12" Common Pleco - Largest I've seen was a 30" Red Tail cat at a local LFS, They actually fed the thing frozen mice, which I witnessed a few times.

clayt101 · Jan 2, 2004

Kept: 17 inch common pleco
Seen: Red Tail Catfish, probably about 30 inches as well

Grandmastr · Jan 3, 2004

i saw a 4 foot albino channel cat a long time ago

dethjam316 · Jan 3, 2004

i've also seen channel cats over 3 or 4 feet. and plecos are 18". red tail cats about 1' is the biggest i've ever seen one live. big suckers, though.

cubano · Jan 3, 2004

Holy Fish Sh*T!! where was that thing? a public aquarium?

blitzen25bm · Jan 4, 2004

my aunts house in thailand had mekong catfish. this was when i was like 5 (15-16 years ago) but then their house was built over a pond, coolest thing ever dont remember how big they were but they looked like they could have eaten me.

lukeant1 · Jan 6, 2004

my dads friend use to keep a red tailed catfish in a six foot tank and it grew to 1 metre and 20 cm 's in length

mrbigisbudgood · Jan 6, 2004

Depends on how you define captivity.

About 7 years ago, I caught a few channel cat from the Spoon River in Illinios and stocked them into my grandfathers pond.

My uncle caught one of them or their offspring last year at around 3 feet long.

bennylax3 · Jan 8, 2004

Originally posted by blitzen25bm
my aunts house in thailand had mekong catfish. this was when i was like 5 (15-16 years ago) but then their house was built over a pond, coolest thing ever dont remember how big they were but they looked like they could have eaten me.

I read in an aquairum book that a story about a wildlife photgrapher witnessing a small child beening sucked under and swallowd by a gaint catfish. the local villgers caught the fish quickly and cut the child out. the story says the child survied. cant remeber if it was south america or asia

Dakota · Jan 11, 2004

I used to have 2 x Salmon Catfish, both about 12" long in a 6 ft tank. I only had them for about 4 weeks because at first I thought they would look great in the tank, but they just made a total mess of the place, I couldn't put anything else in there, no plants nothing because they just destroyed everything...

Although they were amazing to watch, beautiful fish, and the only thing I found to be able to feed them properly was to go and buy smaller fish to feed them to them... this was so expensive in the end!!

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