Feeding red tail catfish?

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thebiggerthebetter said:
Catfish pellets (not necessarily the most expensive but not aways the least expensive; mixing them is good) plus pieces of fish/whole fish, frozen-thawed. I used to buy 25 lbs of marine fish called spot for $15-$20 from a small local food fish shop. Mix different pellets and different aquatic/sea foods in every now and then.
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I catch spot all the time! Just go catch them... i can get about 25 of them good sized in about an hour...


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Any garden store or pond store or country store (Tractor Supply Co. for instance) offers catfish pellets, gamefish pellets, trophy fish pellets, etc. generally about $15-$25 for a 50 lbs bag. Sure they are low quality but that's why one diversifies and supplements the diet. Then there are other, better kind, for instance check out Ziegler's pellets; I buy 44 lb bags for $35-$40. Then there are more expensive.

An internet search will bring up so many pelleted fish foods, your head will be spinning. Even though most of them are designed for cold/temperate water fish like channel catfish that are farmed and stocked in water bodies in the US, they are quite usable when they are not offered alone and all the time.
 
FuriousFish said:
I catch spot all the time! Just go catch them... i can get about 25 of them good sized in about an hour...
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Great! Snap a pic of them - I'd like to know if it is indeed the same fish... because the name like "Spot" is quite non-descriptive and can be applied to a 1000 different fish, e.g. bowfin :) or clown knife :) or bluegill :) or redfish :) or sun cat :) etc. My store was run by nice but barely English-speaking koreans who could not tell me more, neither the scientific name - all I could make out is that it is marine, called spot, and not usable for human food/poor tasting or smelling (I've no idea why they were stocking it then, partly again because of the language barrier).
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
Catfish pellets (not necessarily the most expensive but not aways the least expensive; mixing them is good) plus pieces of fish/whole fish, frozen-thawed. I used to buy 25 lbs of marine fish called spot for $15-$20 from a small local food fish shop. Mix different pellets and different aquatic/sea foods in every now and then.
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Are these the spot you're talking about? Supposed to be a good bait. I can't imagine why they aren't considered at least edible though since some of their close relatives are quite tasty. http://www.striperspace.com/large_spot.html#Hooked
 
bassfisher91 said:
Are these the spot you're talking about? Supposed to be a good bait. I can't imagine why they aren't considered at least edible though since some of their close relatives are quite tasty. http://www.striperspace.com/large_spot.html#Hooked
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Maybe. The ones I was buying were closer to a foot long and didn't have the pale stripes. But the body profile is about right.

I am thinking that they meant that those particular boxes were no good/expired for human consumption, not that the fish is no good. Again, language barrier...
 
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