MNeilssen wrote:

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It sounds terrible, but this fish looked good enough to eat.

Well, the frying pan is always the easiest way to dispose of a dead fish

Yeah, I've seen channel cats at nearly five feet!!!

If you end up with one, click on the link in my sig:

what about Iridescent Shark, Iridescent Catfish, Sutchi Shark.
a friend of mine (who is new to fish keeping) has just bought a 6" one for his 4 foot tank, he said the fish shop told him it would grow to 8", i thought they grow huge! to almost to a metre.
anyway i went to the fish shop in question and saw for myself that they got about three iridescent at 4" and on the tank is the picture label which states they grow to a max of 8 inches.
suprised as this shop is normally good.

That would be a good one, I've seen them over three feet...

Guess who has a pangansius(not sure on spelling) shark (i think thats what an Iridescent Shark is), yep me. Went to a shop about 4 years ago and asked what they have that would go with my oscar and told how big he was. They sold me a small pangansius (its the shop that had the fish with the hearts on it in my post in 'cruelty to fish section'. I put it in the tank and my oscar straight away tried to eat it so i put it in my community tank that i had at the time. The Pangansius grew slow as he only had flake to live on. He is now in my general cichlid tank (had it for a year) and he has started to get bigger now he has some proper food. He is now about 7 inches. Bit concerned about what i am gonna do with him long term, will try to rehome him when he gets to a foot long. Fortunately for me there are 2 maidenhead aqautics round her and if anyone has been to one of there stores they have 5x2x2 tanks in them so hopefully they will be able to tank and rehome him

Edit- sorry for the double post

Guess who has a pangansius(not sure on spelling) shark (i think thats what an Iridescent Shark is), yep me. Went to a shop about 4 years ago and asked what they have that would go with my oscar and told how big he was. They sold me a small pangansius (its the shop that had the fish with the hearts on it in my post in 'cruelty to fish section'. I put it in the tank and my oscar straight away tried to eat it so i put it in my community tank that i had at the time. The Pangansius grew slow as he only had flake to live on. He is now in my general cichlid tank (had it for a year) and he has started to get bigger now he has some proper food. He is now about 7 inches. Bit concerned about what i am gonna do with him long term, will try to rehome him when he gets to a foot long. Fortunately for me there are 2 maidenhead aqautics round her and if anyone has been to one of there stores they have 5x2x2 tanks in them so hopefully they will be able to take and rehome him