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About four or five months ago I collected four very small (less than an
inch) baby catfish from a local pond and put them in a planted ten gallon tank I had sitting around. After researching a bit about them I figured out they were brown bullhead cats and will get about a foot long in the wild - smaller than I expected but still fairly large. So after they got big enough to not be harrassed by my cichlids (and they had been in my tanks long enough for me to be confident they weren't carrying anything nasty) I threw them into my big tank. They had great fun and doubled in size in no time. Then their mouths got bigger than some of their tank mates... They ate all of my guppies (no big loss there, I was going to donate them to the petshop anyway) then my last remaining tiger barb that hadn't been eaten by the severums, then two african dwarf frogs, several snails etc. I traded all of the remaining cichilds to the LFS for store credit and turned my big tank into a catfish only tank. So now I'm wondering just how far the "they eat anything" phrase might go. I'm used to doing lots of water changes after owning a host of destructive cichlids that were plant intolerant so I overfeed a lot so they'll grow fast. Anyway I was looking at them today and wondering if they can eat stuff like catfood (like friskies for instance) that I can buy in bulk for a tenth of the price of fish food. I already know they'll eat every kind of fish food that exists, any kind of creature that will fit in their mouth, chicken, tuna, and earthworms. I've noticed these guys are far more hardy than just about anything I could buy in the petstore, and I suspect that if I don't find some bulk amounts of food and start overfeeding soon then the biggest cat is going to turn on his sibblings and I will have one very large cat instead of four. Thoughts? -Daniel |
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