Channel Catfish in a 20ga tank

Just did a water change yesterday, the tank looks better now and the fish seem happy.

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Pets & Animals

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• fish
• channel
• catfish
• cats
• aquarium
• 20ga
• tank

[TheMrsweetguys]

Dude they need a way bigger tank just sayin but nice fish i have two channel catfish to

[IKILLU720]

bigger tank

[averydart]

@antifreindly Alright, try to fix that or something sometime if you maybe can haha

[averydart]

@antifreindly Also, try to get a vid up of your cat. I wanna see how he's doing :D

[averydart]

@antifreindly Yeah that will get to be a problem really fast. Not only will your goldfish die, but they are extraordinarly bad for other fish to consume due to goldfish and rosy minnows and such are very fatty and have a certain protein (or some protein or lipid or something) that causes a decrease in vitamin B, which can lead to fatal disease in your fish...and yeah, you might introduce snails in the pond...like get pond snails, and they reproduce crazy fast and then you have a lot of livefood

[averydart]

@antifreindly and I actually just calculated how big your pond is. acording to your mesurements you have a 360 gallon pond. as a gallon take up 6x6x6 inch cube, and 60 inches times 36 times 36 equals 77,760. Then take 216 (volume of cube) and divide 77,760 with 216. You get 360...so unless I have something confused I think your pond is much bigger than you say it is...

[averydart]

@antifreindly yeah, liver should work...though i am not so sure...it might pollute the water quickly as the bits of liver peel off...I'd use it lightly and supplement with other foods.

[averydart]

@antifreindly 5 x 5 x 3? that sounds a lot bigger than 150 gallons...yeah, post a video of the catfish you have right now. I'll see how your cat is doing...I would suggest feeding lots of little frozen meat cubes that you can buy at pet stores in the frozen isle. I'd get beefheart (feed sparingly, once or twice a week), bloodworms (good staple feed often), and spirinula enhanced mysis (or brine) shrimp. this of course is an ideal diet. pellets should be fine, and maybe put in a live bug

[averydart]

@antifreindly Hmmm...I admire what you did for rescueing the catfish, but you realize that you just got a big responsibility. How long/wide is the 150? These guys get 3 feet+ so you might cramp one of these monsters in even that. However, you might be lucky. It might not be a flathead, which can get to be over 100 pounds. You might have a brown bullhead, which only get about a foot long. It will be hard to ID the catfish until he gets bigger. The caves are good. If you can, get some hornwart

[averydart]

@antifreindly Rescued? How so? Its illegal to keep fish from the wild without a permit you know. but don't release it. thats also illegal. get the temp to 76. he won't eat if he is too hot. and get an airtube in, it will also increase his appetite. how long has the tank been up? how many fish are in the tank? do you have plants in the tank? how often do you change what percent of water? you'll likely need a much bigger tank. and what about the catfish in the 20 gal that this vid is about?