5,000 gallons for Catfish

[Wailua Boy]

When you said catfish pond, this is what I was envisioning

 

[monkeybike]

When you said catfish pond, this is what I was envisioning

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Just need some cornmeal batter and a big old fryer

 

[Frank Castle]

When you said catfish pond, this is what I was envisioning

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LOL!!! No, a backyard pond like yours with a liner and waterfall....

 

[Frank Castle]

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[Charney]

The pond size is one important factor to take into account. The other is filtration.

If we are talking about an non-natural pond with a manmade filter, I'd say for a fully grown 3'-3.5' channel, one would need about 500-1000 GPH of filtration capacity.

So, I'd imagine that ten 3'-3.5' channels would be able to have enough space in a 5000 gal (except it may be a bit too shallow, 4' depth would be needed) with ~10,000 GPH filtration (and needless to say zero ammonia and zero nitrate at the filter output).

Frank I would take Viktor's thoughts into strong consideration. He is very knowledgeable about cats especially larger ones.

 

[Frank Castle]

Frank I would take Viktor's thoughts into strong consideration. He is very knowledgeable about cats especially larger ones.

I certainly have and the fact that I alerted so many more people after his post just means I want attention LOL no seriously though, I'm just looking for more native keepers' input. There is no right or wrong answer as far as I am concerned, the way I see it the more people I get to respond like thebiggerthebetter .....well....thebetterthebest

Ill probably take all the numbers and average them together when the thread runs it's course

 

[convict360]

I have no clue, interesting notion though; based on very rudimentary googling of max sizes, and nothing else, 10 also seems like a good number to me.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

I'm a notorious understocker so if it were my pond, probably 5 lol.

I have 1 albino channel in my 310 in my living room, he's outgrowing it quickly lol at around 1.5-2' currently.

I agree with 10-12 however, they would do fine in that, only concern I have is the occasional PA overfreeze we get and 2 feet of water would solidify quick fast and in a hurry.

 

[Frank Castle]

I'm a notorious understocker so if it were my pond, probably 5 lol.

I have 1 albino channel in my 310 in my living room, he's outgrowing it quickly lol at around 1.5-2' currently.

I agree with 10-12 however, they would do fine in that, only concern I have is the occasional PA overfreeze we get and 2 feet of water would solidify quick fast and in a hurry.

How old is your Channel?

 

[predatorkeeper87]

How old is your Channel?

he'll be going on 1.5 years here shortly. Got him at roughly 5", after about the first 4 months he was close to 10-12" then had another big growth spurt while I was on military orders. currently sitting probably right around 2' as I look at him.