what are these -Pangasius

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what are these -Pangasius

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hello looking to take some fish off a friend as they have got to big for his tank what are they please their is the shark cat and the 2 fish the same he said they were skarks 2 ?

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The catfish is a Pangasius sp., my guess is

The other two I think are Leptobarbus rubripinna*

* "For many years this fish was considered to be Leptobarbus hoevenii"
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Leptobarbus hoeveni
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can they be kept in a home aquarium ?
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Post by MatsP »

Both grow quite big - the link that Dave posted for the Leptobarbus says that you should have a 10' x 6' x 4' (3 x 1.8 x 1.2m) tank - which is getting close to "small swimming pool" size, and at 6500 liter of water, you'd be looking at some serious structural strengthening of your house before you put that sort of tank in it.

Pangasius grow even bigger, 2.5m long - even if we assume that's a "record size" rather than "normal size", you need an even bigger tank to keep those.

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prob sound like a bad idea to take them then
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