Cold Water Catfish

All posts regarding the care and breeding of catfishes from other parts of the world (North America, Europe and Australia). If you don't know where your catfish is from, post a query in the identification category.
Post Reply
User avatar
Ben
Posts: 191
Joined: 06 Jan 2003, 10:47
Location 1: PEI, Canada
Interests: Fish, Computers, Comic Books, Nature
Contact:

Cold Water Catfish

Post by Ben »

Hello folks,

As I've mentioned in other posts, I'm setting up a cold water river tank (cold as in approx 20°C) I'm curious from the pool of knowledge and experience here, what catfish are there out there that would do well in such an environment? I've been digging around reading, but nothing beats personal experience!

Thanks!

Ben
User avatar
Silurus
Posts: 12420
Joined: 31 Dec 2002, 11:35
I've donated: $12.00!
My articles: 55
My images: 893
My catfish: 1
My cats species list: 90 (i:1, k:0)
Spotted: 424
Location 1: Singapore
Location 2: Moderator Emeritus

Post by Silurus »

You can choose from temperate region catfishes such as ictalurids (madtoms are a great) or <i>Silurus</i> spp. (if you can get your hands on them), or hillstream catfishes such as sisorids.
All of these guys will do very well in cold water, since that is their natural habitat. I've had experience keeping all of these and <i>Silurus asotus</i> was still my favorite among them.
Image
User avatar
oneoddfish
Posts: 109
Joined: 01 Jan 2003, 00:54
My cats species list: 13 (i:0, k:0)
Location 1: detroit,michigan
Interests: large cats-odd balls-I also breed alot of different african cichlid. but my favorite thing is collecting RARE or very hard to obtain fish...

cold water cats

Post by oneoddfish »

heok hee, you mentioned mad tom's. Did you collect them you'r self? If so in what state? In a river or lake?
what's the matter?---cat got you'r tongue.

Jerry L Brown
User avatar
CatfishHunterSB
Posts: 9
Joined: 20 Dec 2006, 05:45
Location 1: Nebraska
Contact:

Catfish

Post by CatfishHunterSB »

Did you find the answer to your question?
Sandtiger
Posts: 111
Joined: 03 Apr 2005, 04:38
My cats species list: 13 (i:0, k:0)
Location 1: NY

Re: Catfish

Post by Sandtiger »

CatfishHunterSB wrote:Did you find the answer to your question?
Seeing as how this thread is from January 2003, yeah...I think he did. :?
User avatar
Silurus
Posts: 12420
Joined: 31 Dec 2002, 11:35
I've donated: $12.00!
My articles: 55
My images: 893
My catfish: 1
My cats species list: 90 (i:1, k:0)
Spotted: 424
Location 1: Singapore
Location 2: Moderator Emeritus

Post by Silurus »

CatfishHunterSB, you are violating forum rules regarding trivial posts, so I have deleted your responses to other threads from 2003.

Consider this your first warning.
Image
User avatar
CatfishHunterSB
Posts: 9
Joined: 20 Dec 2006, 05:45
Location 1: Nebraska
Contact:

Oops.

Post by CatfishHunterSB »

My bad. I'm intested in ictalurids and did not note the date of the original post when posting my reply. This will not happen again.
Post Reply

Return to “Other Catfishes”