Cats for the pond, need ideas!

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Diskboy12

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So as soon as this crappy weather breaks, and the snow melts (just got another 8" overnight last night). I will be starting to escavate my pond that will be consuming my summer. It's going to be a 12' long by 12' wide by 5' deep (almost 5,400 gallons). It will house my RTC, Pacu, and Cichla, but I also want to pick up some more catfish for it. BIG catfish. Here is some of what I have been thinking in the lines of additions, and with 5,400 gallons it shouldn't be overstocked if I do it right, and have good enough filtration.

Catfish of interest:

1. Piraiba
2. Pangasius sanitwongsei
3. Mekong Catfish (not sure if I can even get these?)
4. Sorubimicthys planiceps
5. Albino Channel Cats
6. Wels Catfish
7. TSN
8. TSNxRTC

Any more ideas? I plan to also keep smaller species in there too, many cichlids, and cichla.

It will be pretty diverse that's for sure.
 
FYI. Not all of these are going into the pond they are just ideas. I would love to have about 4-5 RTC's in there...so that may in fact be all that I will keep catfish wise...anywho ideas, comments, opinions?
 
Diskboy12;4919640;4919640 said:
So as soon as this crappy weather breaks, and the snow melts (just got another 8" overnight last night). I will be starting to escavate my pond that will be consuming my summer. It's going to be a 12' long by 12' wide by 5' deep (almost 5,400 gallons). It will house my RTC, Pacu, and Cichla, but I also want to pick up some more catfish for it. BIG catfish. Here is some of what I have been thinking in the lines of additions, and with 5,400 gallons it shouldn't be overstocked if I do it right, and have good enough filtration.

Catfish of interest:

1. Piraiba
2. Pangasius sanitwongsei
3. Mekong Catfish (not sure if I can even get these?)
4. Sorubimicthys planiceps
5. Albino Channel Cats
6. Wels Catfish
7. TSN
8. TSNxRTC

Any more ideas? I plan to also keep smaller species in there too, many cichlids, and cichla.

It will be pretty diverse that's for sure.
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Albino Channel cats if you can get them large enough not to get eaten by the rTC's.
 
Bagrus meridionalis, if you find some, please let me know too. :) Been wanting one ever since I saw them on tv a few weeks ago.
 
ecoli73;4919652; said:
What are you going to do when winter comes again?
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I am building a 20' long by 18' wide by 10' tall greenhouse to encase it, and I will be keeping the air temperature at about 80-90 degrees in there year round. Should keep the pond pretty warm.
 
dragonsong;4919857; said:
Bagrus meridionalis, if you find some, please let me know too. :) Been wanting one ever since I saw them on tv a few weeks ago.
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I will look into that! Thanks for the suggestion Dragonsong.
 
I like the idea of a planiceps in there. Very neat fish. It would also be cool to get a piraiba and have it reach adulthood. Too bad it isn't a cool water pond you could get a goonch lol. Can't wait to see the pond no matter what you put in there.
 
Mekong cat fish are VERY aggressive I would suggest that one being one of the smaller ones you get but not to small to be eaten and there rare to as almost everything in the Mekong river os becoming extinct or endangered
 
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