Trying to better estimate sizes of fish in jumbo 4500 gal: 3.5ft jau, paroon, RTC, 3ft other cats
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 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. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Витя какой ты молодец, смелый мой ребёнок!
:) Thank you, Mom! But this doesn't require any courage, which I don't have anyway :)
Those are some huge fish!!!
Albino Pacu has grown a lot since he joined the story Vic
He is a rescue from 2015.
That’s so cool! Thank you for doing that!
A-ah, my target audience :) You are welcome.
Cool video!
Those paroon shark are huge!
They have an immense girth.
The hybrids are my favorite, for sure. They seem to be bigger than the yard stick?? They were bickering in the beginning of the video. 😂
You saw it wasn't easy, they wouldn't stay still or straight for long or at all :) I estimate from my underwater viewer perspective the bigger hybrid to be a little over 3ft by 2-3 inches maybe, and the smaller to be a little under by same amount.
I made my own measuring stick. I got an ahesive tape measure. It's up to 4' I believe. I cut it at 3'. I attached it to a pvc stick that is weighed down so the tape is always facing up as long as possible. Tie a string to it and ur all set.
Cool.. Thanks for this. I was having Jacques Cousteau flashbacks. One of those Pacu could snip off a finger, toe, of another part, if you were bathing. Seen it on River Monsters.
Haha... yeah Jacques Cousteau haha... About the pacu - really? I've heard of the manhood anecdotes but not digits. Where could I learn more? I did NOT like it at all how close and attentive the 2 pacu were, I had to lightly push and kick them away.
@@Fish-Story The episode was about the "manhood" incidents. I only assume they could snip off a digit with those human like teeth. And I know they like to eat fallen nuts from trees, bite through wires, lines plastic liners...
@@Gil334 Those were a hearsay, maybe real maybe not, although I'd never want to be the one to test it, pun intended :) I did not like how the pacu were nearing and eyeing my hands and feet, that's true :)
Take it from probably the biggest River Monsters fan of all your commenters, I don't think I want to watch THAT episode. Pretty unsettling topic.
@@KuhliLoachTrainer I have not seen it either but I'd not shy away from watching it just because of some anecdotal tales.
Amazing fish! True monsters Thanks for the video Viktor!
Muito lindo ❤
Thank you.
Would be really easy to paint the measurements on the bottom of the glass.
We could all really get the sense of their growth that way.
Just a thought
There are foot and half-foot marks all around the perimeter of the viewing window but the fish rarely line up by the window plus the optics makes them look smaller by about 10% than they really are.
Quite a contrast to my situation:) I can estimate the sizes of trained loaches by holding them as usual and later measuring the length of hand space they took up.
Great tip for smaller fish, never occurred to me! Perhaps I could try to use my forearm or whole arm in addition to the hand?
Happy to help.😊
I certainly think you could do so. For example: you swim up to a fish, put your arm and hand next to it with your hand starting at the head, and take note of a landmark of where your arm ends on the fish.
Then, using a photo of the fish in a straight position, you can find out with the landmark the percentage of the length your arm and hand take up of the fish. And, being able to measure your arm and hand easily, it will be just as easy to get the length of the fish from the percentage your arm and hand take up.
@@KuhliLoachTrainer Thank you. I don't understand the complexity and the need for a photo. Someone else would have to photograph me with my arm next to a fish? Very tall order. It's pretty hard to have your arm next to a fish - they are afraid of you and don't stay still. The only feasible scenario I have in my head right now is to place my arm next to a fish when I have caught them for rehoming, like inside a net with the fish and net still in water.
You're welcome! If it helps, what I was referring to with the photo thing was a pre-existing photo of the fish, not someone taking the photo of you attempting to size up the fish. Shouldn't be too complicated.
This of course assumes fish that are not afraid of you. As I mentioned I do my equivalent of this with fish trained to do this, if they are too afraid of you as opposed to just afraid of the measuring stick, I agree it is a challenge.
@@KuhliLoachTrainer It took me some time until I figured out you are talking about a case where a fish being measured is longer than my arm and hand together. Now I understood it. ... The fear an approaching object instills in fish is proportional to the object size, at least that is what I observe and deem reasonable.
Those fish really are big. The pacu are like whales
The biggest pacu I'd guess around 30-40lbs.
@@Fish-Storyalso sorry I didn’t mean to tag you in so many videos. Sorry about that I didn’t realize
@@loganfish99 No worries, Logan. I am here to share and learn too.
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