I agree. Set-up before you get the fish. Trust me, I learned the hard way. I now have a pond in my bedroom. We planned the pond for that room, but figured we'd move upstairs. My mom needed help, and moved in. Because I care, we have a pond in our bedroom, because the upstairs was no longer available. Now, it is, and hopefully we'll be able to leave the jungle (what it feels like, even with the dehumidifier), but still, how many would do it? Why not wait until you have the setup? Would you buy a great dane if you lived in a camper? No, you'd wait until you had a house with a yard. If you want a hobby, you can learn to knit, or fix motorcycles. If you want to keep a red-tailed catfish, you'd better be ready for a new lifestyle.
Red tail Catfish
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Hayabusa;3224706; said:
you could but have you any idea how hard it is find much less maintain a 2" fish in an 18' pond?
you'd likely have to put it in a growout tank anyways. I mean seriously you're telling me with all of your monsters you started at 3000+ gallons? I for one cannot as a 2" fish would simply be snack for my 16" ones.
someone here quoted me that it would take 3 months for that monster to hit 12" while that would be an amazing growth rate which I think is total bull (edit :did some poking seems that your 2" rtc will hit 12" in 5-6mos which makes more sense, now if you got it larger than that the fish is already older than it may be 4mos or less). It took me 1 month to setup the pond. as long as you pay attention to your fish you can find problems early and fix them. so if your rtc is 2 months old at 9" you may wanna get that pond setup. a 180g is plenty for a 12" fish so by the time your pond is done your fish will still be fine in that 180g.
I'm not saying buy a rtc plop it in a 180 and forget it. I'm saying you can house it in a 180g while you work on larger accomidations. even if you take ayear building a pond you can get an above ground pool for it for sub 200$ (air rim ones are 65$ for a 1500g) and house your rtc in that until you get the in ground built. it's not rocket science.
