So... I got a Channel.

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andy1234;1682432; said:
channels love, shrimp, worms, crawdads, frogs, tadpoles, grasshoppers. hell alot of stuff

channels are great cept the size they get lol
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Cool.
He's really diggin' shrimp pellets and tubifex worms right now.
I'll try some small market shrimp soon.
Might pick up some redworms/mealworms and see if he'll take to them.

Tried to take pics today but he's hidding in the slate pretty good so I cant get a good shot of him.
 
I had a pair in a pond and they ate everything but their favorite was floating pellets. I think they also kept the koi poulation in check so there were not dozens of new ones each spring.
 
I put in some floating pellets this morning for the plecs, Wich thy both greedily ate. Channel did come out from hiding.
I'll put a few floating pellets in there tonight along with the sinking shrimp pellets.
I also put three feeder white cloud minnows my turtle wouldnt eat in there, maybe he'll eat them tonight.
 
mines a total bottom feeder .. market shrimp,sinking carnivore pellets, nightcrawlers .... when i got him he was slightly longer than the TSN (1/4in or so) .... the TSN has out grown him a bit ..but i think he's kept up pretty well! ....... (sorry for the crappy pics .. he cant stand any form of light! ..makes it kinda tough to get a good one ..)

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Mine HATES coming out of his hiding spot.
Sometimes he pokes just his whiskers out then back into hiding.
He ate the white cloud minnows I offered him, I'm going to get a few more white clouds this weekend for him. He eats shrimp pellets on occasion, so I'm going to try and give him some Hikari Massivore.

He doesnt have a noticeable belly though, he's pretty slender. He's eating shrimp pellets, but I'm not sure if he really likes them. He was being fed flakes at the LFS, but I'd rather not feed him flakes. So, like I said I'll just try and feed him more white clouds.

If I'm feeding him white cloud minnows that are about 1/2'' how many and how often should I feed to him? Five a week?
 
Update on the pond situation!
Possibly getting a 350 gallon rubbermaid!
With a pump and fountain.
It's going to be set-up in my garage, or I might put it out on the deck.

If I put it in the garage, I want to heat it so I can get maybe an Aro or two, but wont heating it shorten the life of my channel?
 
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