unknown fish! with no photo :(

[Nerine]

ok here's a good question...what looks exactly like a zamora woodcat, but gets to be about 4 or 5 feet? I was watching what not to wear wanna be..(i'm going to write to them too) and being bored out of my mind almost changed the channel when they were interviewing this girl and behind her was a beautiful tank, VERY cloudy though...and this MASSIVE fish in it! one was bigger than her head (possiblely a pacu) and the others looked exactly like my zamora woodcats but bigger than this pacu looking fish...black body with white bellies...maybe a shark?? what other types of catfish can get that big? I already ruled out channel catfish, wrong body type and wrong fins.
any ideas anyone?

[mseguin]

Probably some kind of D shark. Pangasius spp.

[jaracas]

sounds like a redtailed catfish

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/catfish/redtailcat.php

[Mettle]

Either or in my opinion.

I was thinking ID shark too. But red tailed cat is also a good guess.

[Nerine]

nope not a red tail

I did some more research on pangasius, and I think it is definatly one of them...maybe not an ID shark, but something in that family!
thanks for the ideas
people really shouldn't keep large fish in small tanks, really makes me mad...at least now I can say no to people who want to buy a pangasius because their tank is too small.

[aidensmomma2000]

Im pretty sure pangasius is another name for ID shark, no?

[Nerine]

pangasius covers a large family of catfish some reaching only a few feet to the giant pangasius that weighs almost 700 lbs!