Channel cats?

[Kris P Bacon]

I believe some company is now making food out of invasive plecos? Pleco jerky I think.

Me and a friend tried eating them when camping on the river. Bout need tin snips to clean them. A few mouth fulls of mushy, red brown meat. OK if starving but that's about all and that's coming from a Fl boy. I eat just about anything.

The peace river is full of them, can catch them by hand.

IMO, be better for soil compost.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Maybe you could start a composting business with them lol.

 

[Kris P Bacon]

Maybe you could start a composting business with them lol.

Bunch of them, some cow manure, bone meal, coconut coir, some perlite and other organics, ya got "super soil"
A complex and living environment in which you grow the soil and the plant crop is a side effect.

A bag is very expensive, best to make your own!

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Bunch of them, some cow manure, bone meal, coconut coir, some perlite and other organics, ya got "super soil"
A complex and living environment in which you grow the soil and the plant crop is a side effect.

A bag is very expensive, best to make your own!

Or you could not be so shortsighed by just killing them and letting them rot.

You could instead invent little mechanisms with some pumps and airation, let's call them SCOBA tanks(Self Contained Outofwater Breathing Aparatus) to allow the plecs to breath in the air. Then sell them to people as organic, eco friendly lawn mowers.

 

[fishhead0103666]

I'd buy it ^.

 

[HungDang]

Noticed the water dropped and left a small pool around a bridge pilon. Bunch of little catfish trapped. I caught 6 babies (between 3/4 and 2 inches) for my 30 gallon. Someone told me they wont outgrow the tank, I doubt that.
Are they channel cats? Anyone kept any? T

hank

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k like this.

first picture is a bull head cat fish, second pic look like a blue catfish and the last one is actually a channel cat

 

[fishhead0103666]

If the first one maxed out at the size shown then it would be perfect, you could probably keep it in a 5 gallon even .

 

[J. H.]

Channel cats come in a variety of colors. The biggest difference between them and the blues is the anal fin and size. If it doesn't have a forked tail, it's either a Flathead or some bullhead/madtom. Flatheads have flat heads and enormous mouths. Bullheads & madtoms are very hard to ID because there are so many similar species, and each species has different color variants.
Flatheads can grow 4ft+
Channelcats can grow to 3ft, 2 is more normal.
Noone knows how big a blue can get. C Chicxulub thinks they can grow over 6ft, and he's a fisheries biologist, so...
Bullheads & Madtoms range between less than 6" to almost 4 ft, depending on the species.

 

[CichlidKeeper01]

I have a group of channels that I caught as fry, any pictures of your actual fish? Main difference between blues and channels is that blues have 30 anal fin rays I think. Blues also get huge compared to channels.

 

[Kris P Bacon]

I have a group of channels that I caught as fry, any pictures of your actual fish? Main difference between blues and channels is that blues have 30 anal fin rays I think. Blues also get huge compared to channels.

Sorry only a laptop camera, it's useless for detail pics. Anal fins distinctly curve out.

Going to return today to catch as many as I can before it dries up and put them in the river. If it was plecos I would not even bother.