Bullhead Catfish...An Article

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Sandtiger.....great article. I've been thinking about trying to keep a bullhead catfish in my native tank. I used to catch them all the time. I haven't seen one in a while though.

Your information was very helpful. Thanks.
 
Thanks, the article is actually over a year old. You can also find it in the "Native fish articles" sticky.
 
i just caught a 11 inch bullhead its in my tank right now it had a hook in its mouth and a missing eye so i decied to keep him ill post some pics later
 
ewurm;286771; said:
Good article, never knew blacks could get to 25", wow. I don't think they get that big here in MN.
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Gentlemen:
I just found this site and wish it existed when I had my aquarium, but I had to give it away, a near five hundred dollar set-up for fifty dollars, because I could not afford it, much less a computer back then; anyway, the last fish I had in the aquarium were bullheads, gold phase of the black bullhead.

I lost them eventually , all but one who I watched swim away in the Mississippi, because they jumped out of the tank too often,, but I did several times spend a good deal of scarce money to nurse them back to health with anti-biotics, in a separate large pail.
It is odd how attached one can get to a fish.

I am in Minn. and just recently purchased some lake topography books which also included nettng results.
Four of the bullheads netted were of at least 20 inch length, in four different lakes. Two blacks, a brown and a yellow, but the yellow was actually in the 25-29 inch category.
I started college to be a ichthyologist, but sadly changed majors; anyway, for how big fish get, you can usually take the max. size listed in a "official" list, and figure that it is highly probable that fish of non-minnow category size, can exceed that size by around 30 percent, maybe more.
As with most scientific dealings a conservative figure is generally used.

Often times to see a more accurate figure of how big fish can get, see if there are any state record fish. Nowadays the length is usually given with the weight.
Remember animals, like people come in different sizes. The one you have may be a runt, or it may be a world record.
Bob
 
could these guys live with cichlids???? i catch lil baby ones all the Time in a pond and i rly like the look of them
 
I just found this article randomly searching terms and I noticed in the original post that it is hard to breed them in captivity :D I've done it about 2 months ago. The solution is not really difficult but it is extremely time consuming (and expensive as all H3!!)

the most important step is to be sure that you have at least 2 males and 4 females!!


i'll continue this tonite, at work, gotta run. be back in 13 hours!!!
 
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