How come?

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Hey guys,this question has made me wonder for ages so im now asking.
Ive always been told and red in books etc etc,when it comes to keeping catfish,most of them require good clean pristine water!
No what i dont understand is some catfish come from the most filthy muddy rivers and lakes where visabilty is near zero!
So if the cats come from such filthy water how come our tankwater has to be so clean..


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it is not how dirty the water look but how dirty the water is if that makes any sence cat fish come from high water current areas for the most part. as with any fish for that matter the peramiters are what you need to keep in the good range if your water is black or clear it dont matter it has to do with your cem readings thay always have to be in the target areas or it can cause gill burns slim coat drops and a hole mess of other problems. it would be kinda like a humen are rooms and home can be a complet mess but as long as the air is clean we do just fine. i hope this puts into a perspective that helps
 
Dirty looking water and high nitrates are two different things




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Pristine = no NH3, no NO2, no NO3, no organics, minimum Phosphorus- and Sulfur-containing compounds, plenty of O2, right temp, no heavy metals and other pollutants, etc. It has nothing to do with the visibility, color, or silt in the water. Amazon black water is black (!) but pristine. Mekong is one of the muddiest rivers running over clay... and most other major rivers are... Etc.

Big cats mostly live in the deep large channels of rivers where the water is pristine. Cats that (can) live in swamps, stagnant water with lots of rotting vegetation (and some are even able to breath (some) air) are more tolerant - Ictaluridae (bullheads), Clariidae (walking cats) would be some examples.
 
And you have to think if it's wild caught they have a whole lake and or river they can swim to tht has better conditions but you take that away from it and put it in a tank they lose that power and it's down scaling them by a lot from such a big lake to a tank


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As stated. It's difficult to separate the principles needed in comparing the chemistry differences between a box of mostly clear but ammonia and nitrate saturated aquarium water to a turbid river. Just keep in mind that the amazon river has enough flow to completely remove salt from the Atlantic ocean its delta dumps into for nearly 200 miles. That's nearly 8,000,000 cu/ft of water flow per second. And the delta is so wide it's not possible to see one side of it from the other. Kinda mind-boggling when you check out the characteristics.
 
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