In my opinion this is the minimum and you can only keep it alone because it will eat every other fish..
How fast do red tailed catfish grow?
- Thread starter Tyler2012
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I have a new quest! I will make an extremely large red tail catfish! If I put like 6 in my pond I will try and get some huge a** red tails! I bet I could get some like 6 feet maybe lol as it has fish, turtles, and amphibeans to feed on along with feedings by me. So one day I will get a rtc grow him large in my tank (12") then ill drop him or them in my pond. I might even just grow them to like 2 feet in my 3600 gallon pond I'm building. So I will grow him or them large in either a tank or my smaller 3600 gallon pond. I am going to look around for some of these really cheap or free rtc near me. I've seen like 3 that are free and I've seen some for like $5 ill see what I can collect nearby. And ill drop in like 20 in my really large pond and try to make a huge school lol
-Andrew
Sounds cool and I'll be following you of you do it. However your pond looks like its very cold based on the pics. They need around tropical climates year round (75-85 degrees)
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Ya I went kayaking on it today and the water is currently around 72 degrees and I have no idea how lol the weather isn't steady right now in ny! But ill take the rtc in during winter and put them in my heated stock pond or my pool lol I got a pool and we didn't go swimming yet so its just sitting tap water that's being filtered so I might wanna put them in there lol they would be so cool to swim with! Omg I'm telling my dad about this tommorow and I will force him to say yes! I wanna go swimming with some huge a** catfish lol
-Andrew
-Andrew
Well I don't think you quite understand this or your joking.
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What? I am not joking at all! I'm dead serious I want to put a rtc in my pond when large enough then in the colder weather ill put it in my heated pond or in a stock tank
-Andrew
they couldnt live in a wild unheated, unstable pond and then you expect them to just show up in a pond that big and that murky. its not like they'll swim into your net. you'd have to catch them hook and line. also you would need to stabilize our tap water in your pool. you can't just put i fish in a pool. there is so much other stuff that needs to take place first.
I wish you the best of luck with this, but at the same time i think you need to also plan how you will move a couple of potentially 4'-5' long fish from your pond to the pool?
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Lol the pool is like 1000 feet away from the pond across one of the fields to the pond behind my house and I can just throw the catfish on one of my quad trailers in a large container and drive to the pool quick! Doubt ill do this now as I'm broke lol
-Andrew
one inch a month sounds about right. I bought one that was around three inches about three months ago. its like 5-6 inches now
