Catfish

[D&RW]

Economy being what it is, anybody think of converting their pond into a catfish pond. Raise catfish for food? wonder how many catfish a 3000 gallon pond would support.

 

[c2c7390]

depending on the size of the fish and filter maybe 1 or 2 foot long fish per 100 gallons

 

[c2c7390]

but that will be a packed pond...and unless they start breeding you would need to restock it...not worth it in my opinion

 

[asudavew]

Economy being what it is, anybody think of converting their pond into a catfish pond. Raise catfish for food? wonder how many catfish a 3000 gallon pond would support.

Probably cost more for catfish food than to buy catfish from the supermarket.
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[c2c7390]

you could put trout in during the winter

 

[D&RW]

we love catfish. spent a lot of time in the south and ate a lot of really tasty fried catfish, some right out of ponds that folks maintained and had their own little restaurant.

frankly, I'd love to be able to do it, but I think you guys are right. our pond is too small and it'd probably cost as much in food as what we'd spend to buy them.

trout eh?

 

[c2c7390]

i had a few trout in my pond but it jumped it was cool while it lasted

 

[DrCase]

If we come fish , Do we pay by the pound ?

 

[BlakeA]

Not sure of how off topic this is, but my roommate asked me about putting a plecostomus in my pond to help clean it. I've seen alot of these fish grow to very large size4s in bigger aquariums, and i think it would be so cool, to have one grow so big from being in a medium sized pond. But I'm not sure of the dangers to the Koi i plan to have in the pond. Any insight ot experience in this matter?

 

[koiguy1969]

i have 3 piecos in my pond they have to winter indoors, mine are 8 to 10" now. they pose no threat to the koi and the koi pose no threat to them.

 

[c2c7390]

i have no where to put plecos during the winter...thats why i went with Hi-Fin Banded Sharks

 

[mingus2112]

i have 3 catfish in each of my ~300 gallon pond. This is along with 3 other koi/goldfish in one and 9 other koi/goldfish in the other. My wife is the fish feeder and she hasn't been feeding them anything other than the koi/goldfish food. they eat that. one of them in the back pond is almost 2' long.

they were all here when we moved in 5 months ago.