A Few Juvenile Indian Catfish

[Shovelnose]

I thought a few people might be interested in seeing pictures of juvenile specimens as only adult specimens make it to the trade.

Ompok pabda

- West Bengal

These have almost doubled in size in around a month. Interestingly, they regurgitate food when stressed, noticed this behaviour today. The water in the photo tank was filled with bits of recently devoured prawn,shrimp and blood worms by the time they were done.

Viktor : Thought you will be interested to note that they are eating anything dropped in the tank, not the least bit fussy. Also, growth seems quite fast at this size.

Mystus tengara

from Buri Torsa at Falakata, Coochbehar district, West Bengal as soon as it arrived.







A few weeks have gone by and the specimen has put on a nice 'prawn belly'.

Mystus cavasius

- West Bengal


And a non catfish that is not seen very often.









Bangana/Cirrhinus ariza - West Bengal

A rare (in the trade) cyprinid whose generic placement is a bit unclear at the moment and also an absolute nightmare to take pictures of.

[minipol]

Interesting to see pics of juvies

[Viktor Jarikov]

Ompok pabda

... These have almost doubled in size in around a month. Interestingly, they regurgitate food when stressed, noticed this behaviour today. The water in the photo tank was filled with bits of recently devoured prawn,shrimp and blood worms by the time they were done.

Viktor : Thought you will be interested to note that they are eating anything dropped in the tank, not the least bit fussy. Also, growth seems quite fast at this size.

Thanks much, Balaji. Good to see they should not be too bent on eating live only and hopefully this is age-independent... albeit mine are bimaculatus, I think/was told here.

[Shovelnose]

They are also gorging on shrimp/prawn feed and Hikari Pellets. So it is a bit of a relief. I think yours might be siluroides as I am not sure if south Indian Ompok enter the trade. Got a link to your thread???

[Coriequest]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

[Viktor Jarikov]

They are also gorging on shrimp/prawn feed ...
*** The one you wrote to me about that you called scampi feed?

... I think yours might be siluroides as I am not sure if south Indian Ompok enter the trade.
*** Embarassing. You know my fish better than I do.

Got a link to your thread???
*** http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... lit=+ompok

[Shovelnose]

The one you wrote to me about that you called scampi feed?

Yup. These are the 2 sizes/varieties I use, very good results. The bigger bagrids take the smaller feed quite greedily as well.





Pictures - Vyas

This is another type a few of us are planning to source at the moment. A kilo is around 50 INR or so.

[Viktor Jarikov]

As I said before: Wow!! I could never find such a great pellet here (in my price range anyway of no more than $50 per 30-50 lbs bag). The best I found have something called "fish meal" (what's that?) as a second ingredient and never a fish/aquatic-derived first ingredient, always a plant-derived one, like from wheat, soy, or corn. Usually, the first 3-4 ingredients are like that.

[naturalart]

I'm not 100% sure, but from what I remember "fish meal" is the ground up non edible parts (fins, bones, guts) of food fish not useable in the human food fish stream.

[Shovelnose]

"fish meal" (what's that?)

Naturalart has answered your question. What feed do the prawn hatcheries in your region use???

[Viktor Jarikov]

I don't know. I don't even know if there are any in FL or in the US for that matter.

I never bought shrimp that says "Made in the US". Usually Central America, like Belize. But I have never paid that aspect any particular attention and I think there must be some US production?

Anybody ??

[kandymiki]

during the fishing last week...i have also caught such a this type fish.

[Shovelnose]

during the fishing last week...i have also caught such a this type fish.

Interesting, got any pictures??? What other fish did you collect???

[Shovelnose]

The O.pabda is showing some signs of growth although it seems quite slow.The other specimen was decimated by the Mystus unfortunately.