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Yet again very interesting swampy ;) ive caught wel's catfish up to 180 on the ebro in spain and 96 here in the uk best fighting fish by far in the uk never eaton one thou :D good luck with your brood stock! do you milk them into a bucket like they do with trout in the uk?

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Thought you fellas might appreicate a few pictures of the species that are hunted here. Don't do much shooting myself these days, seeing as the habitat hs shrunk so much that these species are all p

Ok I managed to get a couple of shots of my captive Sitatunga, named Swampy by my eight-year old. He is about half grown now, comparing his horns to those of the one I caught on film by the river-sid

The forest runs in a narrow ribbon along the banks of a stream, Skycat, and it is there that these animals find refuge from year- round unrestricted hunting pressure. The bushbuck (Tragelaphus script

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I've heard of the Wells catfish in Spain's River Ebro, Sniffer. There have been a couple of Discovery Channel programs on those monster Wells, one of which included an interview with a German angler who is credited with illegally introducing Wells into the Ebro River back in the 1970's, by driving over there from Germany in his car, with a few hundred fingerlings that he released into the river.

 

Hatching here starts at night with a hormonal injection of a Canadian-manufactured drug called Ovaprim, to both parent stock. This is only done in the rainy season from about May to September, when the females are full of eggs. That injection ripens the eggs overnight, and at dawn the eggs are stripped into a bowl. Earlier that morning, the males are slit open, part of the testes is removed, and the opening stitched back, so the testes can re-grow in a year or so.

 

The testes are slit open and squeezed into the bowl of eggs, which is then swirled about with some water added, to be sure that fertilization has taken place. The eggs are then spread on a mesh in shallow water, where they hatch in another 24 hours, after which they must be graded for size every six days, or, like Wells fry, the big fry will eat the small ones till there are only a handful left.

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