Some catfish in pond questions.

[Jakob]

So i am building an indoor pond for catfish.
The fish in the pond will be:
1 or 2 Tiger Shovelnose
1 Red Tail Catfish
1 Perruno Catfish
1 Pangasius Sanitwongsei

What would be the minimum dimensions for those fish, i would like one or two more catfish that reaches about 3 feet.

What more species would you recommend for the pond, (1 or 2 species).

 

[oscarcrazy]

from the little I know about huge cats i would say somewhere in the neighborhood of 12x8. Redtails get freakishly huge and the pang species need tons of room to swim.

 

[sbuse]

look at the monster catfish sticky...read the cats info and you will see the pond/tank min dim...8' round pond min better with 10-12' dim...but look in that sticky...

 

[jaytech33]

minimum of 6 x 8 for one happy RTC. So........

 

[MaverickG13]

look at my sig.

 

[TLkmDN]

quite honestly, just go AS LARGE AS U CAN GO! especially if u plan on adding even more catfish to the mix. in a few years u will see the benefits since it wud cost exponentially more to progressively go bigger and bigger. In addition, larger ponds are actually much easier to maintain as the water quality shud remain stable for longer periods of time! the pang needs so so much space to swim as well!

good luck bro keep us updated!

 

[mkman]

get a huge stock tank or one of those above ground swimming pools. Cheap and works well.

Also you didn't want a Wels because you said it got too big but your sanitwongesi aka paroon shark gets as big as a Wels I hope you know that.

 

[Jakob]

I know my things about these common catfish, i know how large the paroon gets.
Thanks, i will try to work something out.

 

[mkman]

get a wels too then, can't forget about a monster like that and if I remember they are available in your country

 

[Jakob]

yes they are, i posted a threat a couple months ago about it, there are still two left. $20 each at 4".