Catfish Pond(s)
 

Several days ago we stocked 100 channel catfish in our pond .... BUT I do not possess any knowledge of maintaining a catfish pond except to feed them with floating catfish food several times per week once the ambient air temperature is above 60+ degrees .....

Any help in catfish food alternatives and pond maintenance will be much appreciated!

BB

Re: Catfish Pond(s)
 

Care to describe the pond, and the climate?

Re: Catfish Pond(s)
 

About 75' X 75' (5675 sq. ft.) X 6' depth .... climate is West Tenn.

TIA

BB

Re: Catfish Pond(s)
 

How big is that pond,I THINK THEY CAN CANNIBALIZE EACH OTHER
provide lots of bottom structure in this pond

Re: Catfish Pond(s)
 

Google is your friend: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...&start=10&sa=N

one of the better hits: http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0826/

Re: Catfish Pond(s)
 

catfish like bugs and the cheapest bugs i can think of are baby flies ... AKA Maggots.

if it was me i'd position some trays of plywood with food scraps on the edge of the pond & let mother nature do the rest.

as soon as you have a huge horrible mess of squirming maggots, rake them into the pond.

the catfish will have a catfish feeding frenzy.

this is something i have not experimented with ... given that i live in a second floor apartment and want to get my rent deposit back. :36_1_63:

Re: Catfish Pond(s)
 

Ah, ponds are so-o-o good. Fish ponds are even better.

"Fishponds, loko i'a, were things that beautified the land, and a land with many fishponds was called a 'fat' land ('�ina momona)."
Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau (1869)