Good news on catfish

[George]

For those of you who read my earlier post about my albino channel catfish, I am
happy to report that I tried feeding him this evening, and he finally started
eating. After not eating for since tuesday evening, he was quite hungry. He
looks to be back to his normal frisky self, whatever the problem was. I think
he was stunned by the lack of O2 after the power got knocked out, but I also
think that the ferocity of the storm might also have played a role, as he would
not come to the surface as he usually does at feeding time, and stayed near the
bottom for the last few days, although he was swimming around normally. But he
finally came to the surface this evening after sunset when it is harder for him
to see me. Catfish are also nocturnal, and usually feed at night in the wild,
but he has been feeding at sunrise and sunset, and pretty much any other time
that I decide to feed him. What a relief to find that he is ok.

[Pinkpggy]

I am glad he is finally eating again. I know what a worry it is when they
don't act right.
Jan
"Our Pond" Page
http://hometown.aol.com/pinkpggy/index.html

[George]

"Pinkpggy" > wrote in message
...
>I am glad he is finally eating again. I know what a worry it is when they
> don't act right.
> Jan
> "Our Pond" Page
> http://hometown.aol.com/pinkpggy/index.html

Thanks.

[~ jan JJsPond.us]

That is good news George, I kind of figure it was just gonna take him some
time, since you weren't seeing anything else wrong with him. So you got
your inverter all ready for next time? ;o) ~ jan

>On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:52:42 -0400, " George" > wrote:

>For those of you who read my earlier post about my albino channel catfish, I am
>happy to report that I tried feeding him this evening, and he finally started
>eating. After not eating for since tuesday evening, he was quite hungry. He
>looks to be back to his normal frisky self, whatever the problem was. I think
>he was stunned by the lack of O2 after the power got knocked out, but I also
>think that the ferocity of the storm might also have played a role, as he would
>not come to the surface as he usually does at feeding time, and stayed near the
>bottom for the last few days, although he was swimming around normally. But he
>finally came to the surface this evening after sunset when it is harder for him
>to see me. Catfish are also nocturnal, and usually feed at night in the wild,
>but he has been feeding at sunrise and sunset, and pretty much any other time
>that I decide to feed him. What a relief to find that he is ok.
>

(Do you know where your water quality is?)

[George]

"~ jan JJsPond.us" > wrote in message
...
> That is good news George, I kind of figure it was just gonna take him some
> time, since you weren't seeing anything else wrong with him. So you got
> your inverter all ready for next time? ;o) ~ jan

Yes. I bought it yesterday at Radio Shack. 140 watts. It'll be enough to let
me run the pump a while then switch to the air pump during an outage.

>>On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:52:42 -0400, " George" > wrote:
>
>>For those of you who read my earlier post about my albino channel catfish, I
>>am
>>happy to report that I tried feeding him this evening, and he finally started
>>eating. After not eating for since tuesday evening, he was quite hungry. He
>>looks to be back to his normal frisky self, whatever the problem was. I think
>>he was stunned by the lack of O2 after the power got knocked out, but I also
>>think that the ferocity of the storm might also have played a role, as he
>>would
>>not come to the surface as he usually does at feeding time, and stayed near
>>the
>>bottom for the last few days, although he was swimming around normally. But
>>he
>>finally came to the surface this evening after sunset when it is harder for
>>him
>>to see me. Catfish are also nocturnal, and usually feed at night in the wild,
>>but he has been feeding at sunrise and sunset, and pretty much any other time
>>that I decide to feed him. What a relief to find that he is ok.
>>
>
> (Do you know where your water quality is?)