Catfish

Spawning occurs mostly in rivers and streams in the spring and early summer when waters warm to 70 to 85 degrees. They also will spawn in larger lakes where suitable habitat is available. Eggs are deposited in nests secluded under banks or logs or over open bottom. The male selects the site, often a natural cavern or hole, clears the nest and guards the eggs and young. A female may lay 2,000 to 21,000 eggs that hatch in six to 10 days depending on water temperature. Males protect the fry until they leave the nest in about a week.

(holding my hands out pretty wide) about this big.

They are like taste buds! They are for smelling out food in the murky bottoms of lakes.

Catfish are opportunistic eaters and will readily consume nearly anything that can be swallowed whole. If the fish is smaller than the catfish's mouth, then yes, it will more than likely be eaten if caught.

in lake wataga in Hampton there are catfish as big as volts wagons they are huge. know from personal experiances. there is a yellow pole where the swiming area is and you can get on it and stand up. one day we were all out there swiming and it started to rain and i happened to look down into the water and i seen a catfish bigger than me

a tank with a filter make sre the tank is big because the fish can get up to 4 feet big

There are several ways that you can bread something for cooking purposes. You would use a different method depending on how crispy or soft, light or dense you want your breading to be. You will need a liquid (milk, buttermilk, beaten egg, batter) and your breading (flour, breadcrumbs, batter). You would first dip your fillet in the the liquid, let the excess drip from the meat, and then coat the fillet in your chosen breading. In the case of batter, you need only dip the fillet in the batter before cooking. Once your fillets are breaded, you can either pan-fry them in oil or deep-fry them.

The Mekong Giant Catfish is a part of the Shark Catfish Family.

Most fish keepers have at some stage assumed that all sucker-mouthed catfish are herbivores.

they live in many freshwater bodies of water, but prefer deep areas of lakes and rivers.

No, female catfish lay eggs which are then fertilized outside of their bodies. Menstruation, the discharge of unfertilized eggs which are intended to be fertilized inside the body, is a feature of mammals.

Yes. Most catfish contain some iodine.

A glass catfish should grow to about four inches in length but can grow slightly larger at times:)

a catfish needs to survive whiskers,taste buds,

Bamboo es producer, consumer or descomposer

The main foot catfish eat is crawdads. The crawdads are probably the best bait. The meat from the tail of the crawdads is the best. Just remove the shell from the tail of the crawdads. You can purchase crawdads at any tackle shop or catch them yourself with a crawdad trap. Also, any kind of cheese is a good bait for the catfish. You only need to cast 25 feet in front of you to catch the catfish.

No, but some species croak when caught, like the channel catfish.

yes . catfish have over 1,00000 tast buds on their whiskers to help them smell and taste food.

Red Tail catfish will eat anything that it thinks is meaty. If you own a Red Tail Catfish, return it to the place you purchased it and demand your money back. Red Tail catfish can grow to over 4 feet long. Some to 5 feet. They are NOT ornamental fish for a tropical tank. Return it and demand your money back. When purchasers realize that this type of catfish is out growing their tanks and eating all the other fish, they will release it in their local pond or lake. Though they cannot live through US's northern winters, they can live in subtropical areas like southern Georgia and Florida.

If the place does not give your money back, report them to the ASPCA for selling a species of fish that should not be sold in the USA or outside of South America.

no, cat fish are like any other fish apart from looks!

Yes. However there are two families Heteropneustes and Clariidae that have bladders that act in a lung like way in addition to gills. There are zillions of species of cat fish and scientists are still changing the lists around.

you will mostly find catfish in a lake or river they dont adapt to salt water very easily

The catfish are all classified as siluriformes (according to wikispecies).

No! Betta males are peacefull fish and mix well with most other species. They will only fight with other Betta males.

never mix a male betta with any other type of fish if you want to keep them alive..male bettas a solitary fish and most likely will kill anything in there with it..i know believe me...i heard that you can mix male bettas with ghost shrimp,neon tetras,and Cory cats..my betta has killed all of the above..i put some neon tetras and Cory cats with him and within 5 seconds the betta was killing a Cory cat

the above is incorrect. but the first one is right. What you have to do is when you get your betta, but him in a ziplock, half air half water; and but the ziplock in the aquarium. I left mine in their for a week ( yes, i fed him ) until he calmed down and realized the other fish weren't a threat or other bettas. Then open the bag and let him swim out. Yes, he may nip when a Cory cat comes near him or chase a fancy guppie or tetra, but he will calm down after about a day. If he dosent return him or put him back in the ziplock.

Also don't put the fish in the betta's cage, but the betta in the fish'es cage using the ziplock method. The betta will be more aggressive if fish invade his territory, but if he is in new territory he will be less aggressive.