Catfish playing with rocks?

[ChannelCat]

I recently moved my channel cat into a 50 gal. tank from the cramped 20. The tank just has river rocks on the bottom and he loves to move them. I am not sure why he does this but I cant sleep and my dad keeps complaining downstairs about it. I dont want to use small gravel because Im afraid he will choke on it. So, should I go with a bare glass tank or what can I do? He just wont stop with his rocks.

 

[Lupin]

Ummm...I admit I find this amusing.

Why not replace it with driftwoods?

 

[ChannelCat]

well he had a piece of driftwood but i cant find a good way to anchor it down and he just kicks/fins it around with his rocks and I dont want anything to break the tank. In the 20 ga he made him like a bed of rocks on one side and a hill of rocks on the other and now he leaves it alone, but that took him months and that tank was quieter due to smaller rocks. I cant take months of him playing with his rocks at 2 am.

 

[basslover34]

I had a RTC that would do that... at 2 am EVERY MORNING!! ...I fixed his butt I took out all of his rocks :


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[ChannelCat]

ok, thats 1 vote for a bare tank.

 

[ChannelCat]

ok, im about to remove all of the rocks. If anybody has any other ideas feel free to chime in.

 

[knifegill]

Yeah! Rock out, man.

 

[Hayabusa]

Would also say take them out, may even damage the tank if theyre big.

Just out of interest, dont channel cats get MASSIVE? like bigger than a RTC massive?

 

[vaine111]

they get pretty big. out grew my 120 in 3 years. he was 24" when i got rid of him.

 

[invisyblegypsey]

take the rocks out and give hin a few pingpong balls with two pin holes in them so that you can sink them. i did this for my oscar he pushes them all over the tank.