I had about 20 one-foot-long two-inch in diameter catfish left from the original 50 that overwintered just fine down here in south Texas, though they did not eat much due to the cold weather and therefore did not grow much, but come April when the weather hit the eighties again they ate like pigs and grew FAST! I think your fish will do just fine.
i have 3 bullhead catfish in my fish tank now ones anout 4 inches the others five and the others 6 inches, they are oing fine and i feed them worms ive grown them sense they were just babies But im hoping they will live threw the cold wether thats comeing in 4 months, how will they do? i also have a 11 inch brown bullhead in my homemade pond thats a good size, im also wondering how he will do it the winter days.
@rumpole33 I don't have plans to attach it to an aquaponic system because I instead attach a "VERY LONG" hose to my pump that areates the water, and then I take that hoae all over throughout my 50 X 50-foot garden and use it to water EVERYTHING, since I usually drain around 150-gallons from the tote every evening.
@tbredlady - i'm wondering, after watching aquaponic systems on YT, if this system uses the h2o more efficiently, since it goes directly to the plants' roots, which then filter out the nitrogen & etc & creates a re-usable water for the fish so that it can be recycled back to the fish tank. also, it seems plants do better in an aquaponics system.
You who said this video is nothing bt water sounds and the catfish... well... what more can i put on the video? I bgt 50 fngerlings and raised them for 10 months in a 250-gallon tote with a 350 gallon sbmersible water pump to oxygenate the water and I drained and replaced 100 gallons of water a day from it which I used to water my garden, and I fed them Purina Catfish Food every morning and every night, and I only fed them they amount they could eat up completely within five minutes.
Sorry to always take so long to reply, bt I feel i ave answered all of these questions in my original posting of this video. I will try to get a webpage put together soon but in the meantime I'll answer a few questiosn that i haven't answered yet, and that is that the catfish i raised were "Channel Catfish" and they were simply wonderful! I put LOTS of information on the video so you who think I didn't please go back and read everything, especially the first thing.
Sorry to always take so long to reply, bt I feel i ave answered all of these questions in my original posting of this video. I will try to get a webpage put together soon but in the meantime I'll answewr the ONE question that i haven't answered yet, and that is that the catfish i raised were "Channel atfish" and they were simply wonderful! I loved my experience and pe to do it again soon.
I would love those notes too! If it is too much to ask, perhaps you could summarize about what you remember about each environment. I plann to raise them for eating too :)
I believe I will create a page on my website next week when i am back from the holidays, but if you read every post and comment then it shouldn't take long nor be too hard to get the exact details of my experiment.
I took agricultural classes in HS, and we were taught how to raise catfish and tilapia in various enviroments, ponds, cages, and tanks. I should try to find my old notes and send them to you if you are interested. We also used water tanks to raise them in, and the students took advatnage of indoor spaces all over.
@tbredlady ok, I hope I can find them, they would be about 10+ years old an in storage someplace, lol. Yes raising the fish should be easy on a small scale and as you get going should be easier. I just found your page so i dont know what you are doing, are you planning on using them for consumption? (our school ended up eating the fishe we raised at the end of the year, lol)
@IAmProletariAN This is a great video and thank you for the comments. I am very much interested in aquaculture as a solution to tactling massive unemployment rates in Africa while at the same time providing readily available sustainable food source. In fact just come there and been exploring this idea. I am an accountant by trade so has very little know how on how to raise catfish hence I would be most grateful if you guys can offer me tips. Notes would be fab or any technical information
@IAmProletariAN This is a great video and thank you for the comments. I am very much interested in aquaculture as a solution to tactling massive unemployment rates in Africa while at the same time providing readily available sustainable food source. In fact just come there and been exploring this idea. I am an accountant by trade so has very little know how on how to raise catfish hence I would be most grateful if you guys can offer me tips. Notes would be fab or any technical information
@IAmProletariAN Hi this is chris and i was wanting to know a little more about raising catfish, and was wondering if i could get you to send me some info.
@blacknazndymepiece hi chris, I'm so sorry I looked for my old notebooks from highschool and could not find them since I posted here. In the school I went to, we last raise catfish in very large water tanks, all bare, inside of large buildings. (by this time we were no longer raising them in lakes) I'm also struggling to remember everything that we did. We got small fry from a local fisherie, both channel catfish and tilapia, and the fisherie was helpful as well with giving us info...
@blacknazndymepiece pt 2 the tanks we used the same kind you woudl store water in for livestock that were entirely sealed, we only cut out a small portion at the top... and I vaguely remember one type of bedrock in there that helped maintain beneficial organisms ... you don't want to raise catfish like you would aquarium fish, products from that area were not designed for human consumption as well as can be toxic...
@blacknazndymepiece pt3 I also remember we worked very hard to keep the tanks clean, it looked like something you would want to drink out of yourself, these stock tanks were like a translucuent white plastic ... we used large filters and fountains specialized just for this purpose... the conditions also allowed for the fry to grow from 3 inches, to 18 inches in just several months. if you don't have ag bio courses available nearby... try to get information from the farms themselves...
You should check out the aquaponics information out there. You end up recycling the water within the system itself and there is a lot less work involved (draining and filtering happen automatically). All you need to do is figure out the proper fish to growbed ratio and you've got a great system. Backyard aquaponics has a lot of good free information.
I have checked it out and i love that site! Thanks!
I feel i am recycling for it all gets poured out onto my garden and fruit trees. i remove the water with the same pump i use for aerating and redirect it onto the fruit trees and produce.
Stop by michigan sometime theres bunches of cold and dirty lakes full of them. Now this video and some of the info sounds a whole lot better then the natural lakes. Even i am intrested in catfish and i find them to be a nusince when fishing,lol. Farm raised mean no Mercury!!! I was able to eat (i think) mercuryless catfish once and i loved it. Havent ate one from the river since.
Farm raised is so healthy and yes, no mercury! Yes, this is a great experiment! And I feel i am recycling for it all gets poured out onto my garden and fruit trees. i remove the water with the same pump i use for aerating and redirect it onto the fruit trees and produce.
Yes, this is a great experiment! And I feel i am recycling for it all gets poured out onto my garden and fruit trees. i remove the water with the same pump i use for aerating and redirect it onto the fruit trees and produce.
I can raise catfish from fingerling to eating size in about 5 months.
This requires feeding them 5 percent of their body weight per day spread out over 5 or more feedings. feeding once or twice a day does not give you the rapid growth that multible small feedings do.
I bought my fingerlings last late-February and they were eating size by Sept 1st. I fed them twice a day.
I don't have an automatic water set-up like you do, which by the way, I love your whole pond set-up, I am just limited financially and I hadn't though of just running out there to feed 5 times a day because i am so busy with the Organic Garden, (where the old fish-poo-water goes each day) but when I buy my new batch of fingerling next month I'll try your multiple feedings routine.
I own my own well that is 300 feet deep over a huge underground water reservoir and then it is pumped through my state of the art sand filtration system making it wonderfully pure. I am truly blessed with water! Thank you God!
Sorry to take so long to reply... But my water comes from my own well that is 300 feet deep over a huge underground water reservoir and then it is pumped through my state of the art sand filtration system making it wonderfully pure.
Nice...I'm awaiting delivery of some tilapia fingerlings that i'm going to raise in an old chest freezer (60 gal)...Hope you get big fat healthy catfish!
can u feed it catfood?
eliden 6 months ago
I would those notes. If you can send them as attachment to my email id. Thanks
aimuyoaizy 6 months ago
I had about 20 one-foot-long two-inch in diameter catfish left from the original 50 that overwintered just fine down here in south Texas, though they did not eat much due to the cold weather and therefore did not grow much, but come April when the weather hit the eighties again they ate like pigs and grew FAST! I think your fish will do just fine.
tbredlady 6 months ago
i have 3 bullhead catfish in my fish tank now ones anout 4 inches the others five and the others 6 inches, they are oing fine and i feed them worms ive grown them sense they were just babies But im hoping they will live threw the cold wether thats comeing in 4 months, how will they do? i also have a 11 inch brown bullhead in my homemade pond thats a good size, im also wondering how he will do it the winter days.
profisherman17 6 months ago
are you going to attach it to an aquaponics system later in order to use that catfish water to act as a nutritive to plants?
rumpole33 7 months ago
@rumpole33 I don't have plans to attach it to an aquaponic system because I instead attach a "VERY LONG" hose to my pump that areates the water, and then I take that hoae all over throughout my 50 X 50-foot garden and use it to water EVERYTHING, since I usually drain around 150-gallons from the tote every evening.
tbredlady 7 months ago
@tbredlady - i'm wondering, after watching aquaponic systems on YT, if this system uses the h2o more efficiently, since it goes directly to the plants' roots, which then filter out the nitrogen & etc & creates a re-usable water for the fish so that it can be recycled back to the fish tank. also, it seems plants do better in an aquaponics system.
rumpole33 7 months ago
You who said this video is nothing bt water sounds and the catfish... well... what more can i put on the video? I bgt 50 fngerlings and raised them for 10 months in a 250-gallon tote with a 350 gallon sbmersible water pump to oxygenate the water and I drained and replaced 100 gallons of water a day from it which I used to water my garden, and I fed them Purina Catfish Food every morning and every night, and I only fed them they amount they could eat up completely within five minutes.
tbredlady 8 months ago
Sorry to always take so long to reply, bt I feel i ave answered all of these questions in my original posting of this video. I will try to get a webpage put together soon but in the meantime I'll answer a few questiosn that i haven't answered yet, and that is that the catfish i raised were "Channel Catfish" and they were simply wonderful! I put LOTS of information on the video so you who think I didn't please go back and read everything, especially the first thing.
tbredlady 8 months ago
Sorry to always take so long to reply, bt I feel i ave answered all of these questions in my original posting of this video. I will try to get a webpage put together soon but in the meantime I'll answewr the ONE question that i haven't answered yet, and that is that the catfish i raised were "Channel atfish" and they were simply wonderful! I loved my experience and pe to do it again soon.
tbredlady 8 months ago
what type of cats are they
mitchell527100 8 months ago
I would love those notes too! If it is too much to ask, perhaps you could summarize about what you remember about each environment. I plann to raise them for eating too :)
polystarblazer2 10 months ago
I believe I will create a page on my website next week when i am back from the holidays, but if you read every post and comment then it shouldn't take long nor be too hard to get the exact details of my experiment.
tbredlady 1 year ago
Ummm...nice conversation, but really,this is just a video clip of fish with a pretty pump sound. Any words of wisdom on your vid? nooooo..
Agent117B 1 year ago
great video, can someone tell me either what is in their feed or how it made?
abs2ray 1 year ago
i wanna raise catfish to..what kinda of filtration system do i need and size of my tank
rockmeslowly79 1 year ago
hi..i was just wondering where you bought your catfish fry from...i live here in dallas.
spyrokete 1 year ago
hie, I m planning to raise catfish farm at my mative place, Can u please give me some ideas about catfish raising.thanx
zayed0lips 1 year ago
I took agricultural classes in HS, and we were taught how to raise catfish and tilapia in various enviroments, ponds, cages, and tanks. I should try to find my old notes and send them to you if you are interested. We also used water tanks to raise them in, and the students took advatnage of indoor spaces all over.
IAmProletariAN 1 year ago 4
@IAmProletariAN
I wouuld love youur notes!
Everything is going great on the catfish experiment so far though... don't know how you can improve on a good thing1 LOL!
tbredlady 1 year ago
@IAmProletariAN I would love your notes!
Everything is going great on the catfish experiment so far though... don't know how you can improve on a good thing1 LOL!
tbredlady 1 year ago
@tbredlady ok, I hope I can find them, they would be about 10+ years old an in storage someplace, lol. Yes raising the fish should be easy on a small scale and as you get going should be easier. I just found your page so i dont know what you are doing, are you planning on using them for consumption? (our school ended up eating the fishe we raised at the end of the year, lol)
IAmProletariAN 1 year ago 2
@IAmProletariAN I plan to eat them! LOL! I actually only have two left! The cat-fish-poo-water is awesome in the garden and on the fruit trees.
tbredlady 1 year ago
@tbredlady hey that is great :)
IAmProletariAN 1 year ago
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EyeLoveSneg 1 year ago
@IAmProletariAN you are truly fantastic. God bless you!!!!
sexy52637 1 year ago
@IAmProletariAN This is a great video and thank you for the comments. I am very much interested in aquaculture as a solution to tactling massive unemployment rates in Africa while at the same time providing readily available sustainable food source. In fact just come there and been exploring this idea. I am an accountant by trade so has very little know how on how to raise catfish hence I would be most grateful if you guys can offer me tips. Notes would be fab or any technical information
abs2ray 1 year ago
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@IAmProletariAN This is a great video and thank you for the comments. I am very much interested in aquaculture as a solution to tactling massive unemployment rates in Africa while at the same time providing readily available sustainable food source. In fact just come there and been exploring this idea. I am an accountant by trade so has very little know how on how to raise catfish hence I would be most grateful if you guys can offer me tips. Notes would be fab or any technical information
abs2ray 1 year ago
@IAmProletariAN Hi this is chris and i was wanting to know a little more about raising catfish, and was wondering if i could get you to send me some info.
blacknazndymepiece 1 month ago
@blacknazndymepiece hi chris, I'm so sorry I looked for my old notebooks from highschool and could not find them since I posted here. In the school I went to, we last raise catfish in very large water tanks, all bare, inside of large buildings. (by this time we were no longer raising them in lakes) I'm also struggling to remember everything that we did. We got small fry from a local fisherie, both channel catfish and tilapia, and the fisherie was helpful as well with giving us info...
IAmProletariAN 1 month ago
@blacknazndymepiece pt 2 the tanks we used the same kind you woudl store water in for livestock that were entirely sealed, we only cut out a small portion at the top... and I vaguely remember one type of bedrock in there that helped maintain beneficial organisms ... you don't want to raise catfish like you would aquarium fish, products from that area were not designed for human consumption as well as can be toxic...
IAmProletariAN 1 month ago
@blacknazndymepiece pt3 I also remember we worked very hard to keep the tanks clean, it looked like something you would want to drink out of yourself, these stock tanks were like a translucuent white plastic ... we used large filters and fountains specialized just for this purpose... the conditions also allowed for the fry to grow from 3 inches, to 18 inches in just several months. if you don't have ag bio courses available nearby... try to get information from the farms themselves...
IAmProletariAN 1 month ago
Very Nice! Sustainable! I'll bet those are good tasting...
Thanks for posting!
5******
pgm98387 1 year ago
Thank you for your comment!
Yes! Great food, great fertilizer!
tbredlady 1 year ago
@pgm98387
Thanks, the are very clean tasting and wonderful!
tbredlady 1 year ago
You should check out the aquaponics information out there. You end up recycling the water within the system itself and there is a lot less work involved (draining and filtering happen automatically). All you need to do is figure out the proper fish to growbed ratio and you've got a great system. Backyard aquaponics has a lot of good free information.
mrlongsmath 2 years ago
@mrlongsmath
I have checked it out and i love that site! Thanks!
I feel i am recycling for it all gets poured out onto my garden and fruit trees. i remove the water with the same pump i use for aerating and redirect it onto the fruit trees and produce.
tbredlady 1 year ago
i have not seen coldwater catfish in years,you cant buy them in my area and im well interested in your experiment.
MrCarlr7 2 years ago
@MrCarlr7
Stop by michigan sometime theres bunches of cold and dirty lakes full of them. Now this video and some of the info sounds a whole lot better then the natural lakes. Even i am intrested in catfish and i find them to be a nusince when fishing,lol. Farm raised mean no Mercury!!! I was able to eat (i think) mercuryless catfish once and i loved it. Havent ate one from the river since.
Thyrinal 1 year ago
@Thyrinal
Farm raised is so healthy and yes, no mercury! Yes, this is a great experiment! And I feel i am recycling for it all gets poured out onto my garden and fruit trees. i remove the water with the same pump i use for aerating and redirect it onto the fruit trees and produce.
tbredlady 1 year ago
@MrCarlr7
Yes, this is a great experiment! And I feel i am recycling for it all gets poured out onto my garden and fruit trees. i remove the water with the same pump i use for aerating and redirect it onto the fruit trees and produce.
tbredlady 1 year ago
I can raise catfish from fingerling to eating size in about 5 months.
This requires feeding them 5 percent of their body weight per day spread out over 5 or more feedings. feeding once or twice a day does not give you the rapid growth that multible small feedings do.
johnnecron 2 years ago 2
Hi John,
I bought my fingerlings last late-February and they were eating size by Sept 1st. I fed them twice a day.
I don't have an automatic water set-up like you do, which by the way, I love your whole pond set-up, I am just limited financially and I hadn't though of just running out there to feed 5 times a day because i am so busy with the Organic Garden, (where the old fish-poo-water goes each day) but when I buy my new batch of fingerling next month I'll try your multiple feedings routine.
tbredlady 2 years ago
I meant auto-feeder set-up! :D
tbredlady 2 years ago
I own my own well that is 300 feet deep over a huge underground water reservoir and then it is pumped through my state of the art sand filtration system making it wonderfully pure. I am truly blessed with water! Thank you God!
tbredlady 2 years ago
Can you tell me where your water comes from that you replace their water with.
johnnecron 2 years ago 2
Sorry to take so long to reply... But my water comes from my own well that is 300 feet deep over a huge underground water reservoir and then it is pumped through my state of the art sand filtration system making it wonderfully pure.
tbredlady 2 years ago
Why anyone would thumbs down a simple question is beyond me.
johnnecron 2 years ago
So sorry! I didn't mean to hit that thumbs down!
(smiles!)
tbredlady 2 years ago
I've been searching the internet over to try and find some tilapia fingerlings! Where did you get yours?
tbredlady 2 years ago
Nice...I'm awaiting delivery of some tilapia fingerlings that i'm going to raise in an old chest freezer (60 gal)...Hope you get big fat healthy catfish!
KingmanOldDude 2 years ago