"Gareee©" wrote in message
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" George" wrote in message
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"Gareee©" wrote in message
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working now.. and looking good!

BTW what kind of fish is that yellow catfish?


That is an albino channel catfish. It does have a yellowish tint, but
that is
mostly the lighting and the tint of the water playing tricks. When you
see him
up close and at the surface, there is almost no coloration in him at all.
In
fact, it is very hard to photograph because the pictures tend to
overexpose. It
is about 24 inches long, was raised from a fingerling, and weighs about
3-5 lbs.
It eats whatever it wants, in case you were wondering. And lots of
whatever it
wants. It generally leaves the other fish alone except at dinner time.
So I
feed the others on one end, and feed it on the other end to keep them
separated.
He will eat feeder goldfish, but I generally don't feed him live food
because
being albino he is susceptible to infections. He gets shrimp in the
morning and
dry food in the evening, although I fed him a little bit of dry food this
afternoon to get him to pose for the camera. I have to be careful when
feeding
him and taking pictures at the same time, because although he is used to
me, he
spooks a little easily, and will totally drench me and the camera with
his tail
if I move too suddenly while he is at the surface eating. He's a cool
cat, that
one!

He looks like a large version of a small (well, originally he was small)
albino catfish we got for our aquarium. He's about 30 times his original
size now, and we've even toyed with the idea of putting him in the pond, to
see if he would make it. Plus, since he's had that "color enhancing" food,
he's gone from a darkish original color, to very light white, with a tint of
orange. Hard to believe he's the same fish!

Mine was 14 inches when I put him in the pond. He acclimatized very well.
However, about three months later he got a bacterial infection that was
particulary hard to get rid of. I had to isolate him and use antibiotics.
Albinos are susceptible to infections. That is why I no longer feed it live
food. But he has been healthy ever since. That was last fall. He has grown
very fast.