Mr Wels ate 1lb/week & disliked warm water. Now he eats 1lb/day in warm water. What's he cooking up?
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
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The following are some of the fish we actually work with, not "fake keywords to drive traffic": South American red tail catfish (SA RTC), Asian RTC (ARTC), tiger shovelnose catfish (TSN), RTC x TSN catfish hybrid, TSN x marbled catfish hybrid, ripsaw or niger catfish, irwini catfish, wyckii catfish, lima shovelnose catfish, sun catfish, marbled catfish, marbled sailfin, any large South American (Pimelodidae, Doradidae, etc.) or Asian (Pangasiidae, Bagridae) catfish, iridescent shark catfish, paroon shark catfish, black ear shark catfish, Phalacronotus, synodontis catfish, mystus catfish, pacu, arowana, giant gourami, eel, spiny eel, blue catfish, channel catfish, flathead catfish, bullhead catfish, white catfish, gar, peacock bass, datnoid, koi, distichodus species, mahseer, probarbus, labeo, black shark, calico shark, bala shark, tinfoil barb, Chinese high fin shark, any large cyprinids and characins, pleco catfish, bichir, knife fish, loach, piranha (legal in Florida, such as, red hook, silver dollar, etc.), barbel, barb, perch, pike, carp, sturgeon, beluga sturgeon, wels catfish, Indo-Pacific tarpon, Aral or Caspian barbel, cichlid, African cichlid, dovii, jaguar cichlid, midas cichlid, vieja cichlid, Texas cichlid, carpintis cichlid, bowfin, redfish, giant Siamese carp, tinfoil, lemon fin barb, small scale mud carp, piraiba catfish, tig catfish, tilapia, Mayan cichlid, leporinus, Prochilodus, flagtail, etc. 
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Thank you!
Love this exhibit, Mr. Wells is magnificent, rest of the crew in there just stunning, water quality looks incredible👌
Thanks Vic
Thank you for this although you are entirely too generous to us as usual :)
There is no doubt Mr Wels is the star of the show, apart from yourself, of course Vic 👍
Mr Wells is so well trained awesome specimen 👍🏼
Thank you. Good to hear from you, Alistair.
Beautiful fish!
I think so too.
Absolutely beautiful
Thank you. Good to see you surface, Jesy. Cheers!
@@Fish-Story thank you for all of your lovely videos. They are a blessing.
I pray you and your family are well.
What a beast
So awesome to see. the Wells is getting big and the Pima,s growrate is amazing. Cant wait till the koipond is up .Knowing youre work it will be a pearl of an exhibit
Thank you for kind words and support. Yes, can't help but marvel at the pima growth, 1.5yo and 3.5ft+. ... You have low standards, you should consider upping them :) Like the rest of our homebuilt tanks, the koi pond would be ugly as sin but hopefully functional :) BTW, have you built your super koi pond 2-story / 15 ft deep?
@@Fish-Story there much beauty in raw craft. Oure pond (not a koipond btw)is a coop build and is now bout 13/14 feet at the deep end .the groundwater is regulating the hight of the water in the pond, so in summer there will be less water in it .probably like 6/7 feet. But we intend to deepen it further when water is low.
@@zanzarrahaas4887 Thank you. Wow, great to know. What do you mean by the coop build? As in a cooperative effort? Is there no bottom in this construct but just the walls? I wish I saw it and understood the details better. I see none of this on your YT channel.
You have the coolest Wels cat on RUclips so if he wants a more diverse diet, I say give it to him! 🤪😎👍🤙
Thank you, Kara. I think it's not about feed diversity but he had been just hungry. IDK why his appetite has suddenly jumped so much, but it must be a good thing as he needs to grow because he has been at the 5ft mark for couple years now.
Everytime I see Mr. Wels I always tell myself....he could swallow almost any fish in that tank if he wanted too....amazing evolution.....a massive muscle with a giant mouth attached to it...amazing and very smart fish.
He could eat 3/4 of the fish in there, yes, but fortunately he hasn't wanted to for the 3-4 years in the 25K.
Respect and appreciation Vic
You successfully trained a catfish lol I need to try this. The wels is so cool.
❤
Beautiful
Loved this. Maybe he’s going through a ‘growth spurt’?
I wish and hope too :)
I counted 6 mullet.😃
Maybe Mr. Moody Spoiled European Wels is realizing that his previous capriciousness isn't cutting it anymore for the size he is at.🤔
If so, it'd be instinctual, not contemplatory :)
Here in France they eat more when the water is warm
The concrete numbers matter, I imagine, plus the ability to go from warmer waters to cooler waters and back as needed, which is impossible for our wels stuck at constant 82F-84F for 6 months.
Why do you put some of the best peacock Bass in there
Did you mean why don't I put? If so, that's because the pbass might be eaten by wels and arapaima, short of a 2.5ft-3ft temensis, and because this is a rubber liner lined tank, sensitive to punctures by spiny fish.
I wouldn't think that the peaco6 bass are small enough to be by either one of those I would think they are to fast
They would be eaten swiftly at night, when they don't see well and sleep.
Matt and his cameraman chum, very disrespectful Nico, aren’t they not getting in the circle 👎☹️
Wrong place, Dean?
Don’t you do your research on the fish you have to see what water temperatures they prefer
If it works it works
Wels catfish can survive in almost any temperature. In the wild fish don't get to just chose what the water temp is. Winter, summer, fall... all affect the water temp in the wild. His wels being outside is as close as it gets to giving him what mother nature does.
We most assuredly do, yes, thank you. Yet with some fish the data are insufficient, or controversial, or even unknown. The water bodies, running or stationary, are not at uniform temps either but deeper water is cooler, vs mid column and vs the surface, and with some fish it is unclear how much time they spend in which water strata at what age, size, etc. There is also a conditioning effect of fish bred over many generations in captivity vs the wild. Discus and water hardness is a good example of that.
Thank you, brother. True. But also wild fish can move around and go from warmer waters to cooler waters and back as needed, which is impossible for our wels stuck at constant 82F-84F for 6 months.
In some cases, yes, experiment is the only way to find out for real and no amount of paper data is sufficient. And on the opposite, in other cases, we are sometimes met with cases where we should NOT have doubted the published data.
Looks like he has grown a lot lately. Looks longer and girthy
He has been eating more, as noted, so probably a bit girthier. As for the length, it is so hard to eyeball, the eye plays tricks on you. I think he has been at around 5ft for the past couple of years. I hope he will start growing again soon.