At the end of last year, I did fulfil a personal dream, and bought two little wels catfish. I ordered them together with several other coldwater fish from a fish farm. One is wild-coloured and was around 15 cm and one is hypomelanistic, with a white-pinkish colour, and was around 17 cm at the beginning. Sadly the wild-coloured one wasn´t doing well at first and had white spot disease just one day after arrival, and later also something like finrot. But now it is luckily doing very well, it´s in good condition and the fins have well healed. During the first months I kept them in a quarantine tank in a comparably cold room (it´s winter...), and I couldn´t see any growth during more than three months despite strong feeding. Since some time they are in a big 150 l tank, and it seems they already increased a bit in size, probably because the temperature in this room is warmer. I feed them mainly with sturgeon pellets which are rich in protein and they obviously like them. When it was still warmer, I fed them also with earthworms, which they attacked in very aggressive ways.
I will keep them as long as possible in the tank, but if they grow too big, they will get an own pond.
I will keep them as long as possible in the tank, but if they grow too big, they will get an own pond.
