CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Can the three yellow catfish reproduce on its own?

1. Can the three yellow seedling catfish reproduce on its own?

Catfish can reproduce on their own in ordinary small ponds. The spawning season is from June to July every year, mainly concentrated in late June to mid-July, but there must be aquatic plants or emergent plants in the pond.

2. How to raise catfish fry

Catfish is a carnivorous fish and feeds on scavenged food. It should not be raised together with small fish and shrimps!

Catfish have poor eyesight, like to hide during the day and come out at night, hunting with whiskers and sense of smell. Especially greedy catfish is an omnivorous fish, and is greedy by nature. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly control the amount of feeding, feed as much as there are fish in the pond, and prevent blind feeding. At the same time, it is necessary to implement point feeding, spread the bait evenly, feed a small amount of food multiple times, feed enough to prevent hunger and satiety from being uneven, and polarization. At the same time, in the early stage of fry cultivation, animal feed should be used as the main feed, and intensive cultivation should be carried out. As the fish grows, some plant feed should be gradually switched to combine animal and plant feed. The daily feeding amount should be controlled at about 5-8% of the total weight of the fish body, and the feeding amount should be adjusted once every week or half a month to make the feeding amount more reasonable.

3. What do catfish fry do during the day?

Catfish live mainly in the middle and lower layers of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, and are active in coastal areas. They hide in bushes, under rocks, or in deep water during the day, and forage frequently at night. In autumn, they hibernate in deep water or mud, and their feeding rate also decreases. They are carnivorous fish, and their prey is mostly small fish, such as mullets, crucian carp, goby, wheatear fish, carp, loach, etc. They also eat shrimps and aquatic insects. They mainly swallow food, and the function of their teeth is mainly to prevent food from escaping.

It is a nocturnal animal, hiding quietly in pits at the bottom of the river or under tree roots during the day. It has a large appetite, and large species such as the Danube catfish will attack small water birds or mice, and ferocious bottom fish. It is afraid of light and likes to live in rock crevices near the banks of rivers, deep pits, soil holes or stone caves at the bottom of tree roots, and waters with slow flow.

In the still water of reservoirs, ponds, lakes and weirs, they often lie in the dark bottom or under patches of water lilies, water peanuts and water hyacinths.

They start to move around in spring and look for food. They stop eating in winter and hibernate in deep water or caves. If nothing disturbs them, they usually do not swim.

Catfish have small eyes and poor eyesight. They hide during the day and come out at night, relying entirely on their sense of smell and two pairs of tentacles to hunt. They are very greedy. The hotter the weather, the more they eat. They are more active on cloudy days and at night.

Catfish have a strong ability to adapt to the environment and their lifespan can reach more than 70 years.

They mature sexually early, usually at one year old. The spawning period in the Yangtze River area is from April to June, and the farther south you go, the earlier, and the farther north you go, the later. When spawning, they chase each other in groups. Similar to Darwin's frog, male catfish also hold the eggs laid by female catfish in their mouths to hatch small catfish. The difference is that male catfish cannot eat during this period. The young fish feed on zooplankton and mollusks, among which the larvae of aquatic insects and shrimps are its delicacies.

They are greedy, and young fish weighing about 500 grams will swallow a lot of crucian carp, carp, etc. They are suitable for living in waters with a water temperature of 20-25℃. They generally have no scales on their bodies, and their body surface is covered with mucus. They have a flat head and a big mouth. There are four whiskers on the upper and lower jaws, which are longer on the upper and shorter on the lower. They can use these whiskers to distinguish flavors.

Additional information

Selection of Catfish Bait Based on Living Habits

Catfish is a carnivorous fish. It hides in secluded places underwater during the day and starts to move around in search of food at dusk. It mainly eats fish, shrimps and small animals that fall into the water. Therefore, the bait should be fish meat pieces, small fish, big green worms, small loaches, chicken and duck livers, sheep livers, green earthworms and other meat baits.

The most commonly used one is the big green worm, which has a particularly good effect. The big green worm often grows on sweet potato leaves, taro leaves, and some ornamental flowers and trees. The body of the worm is tender green. Choose a big green worm with a body diameter of 6mm~10mm and a body length of 50mm~80mm.

The method of finding the big green caterpillar is very simple. As long as there are feces particles on the ground under the plants, or dead branches and leaves on the plants, you can find them.

In addition, the big green worm should be drowned before putting the hook on, so as to avoid the worm body wriggling and losing body fluid after the hook is put on, and the worm body becomes too small, which affects the swallowing effect of the fish. Generally, if the worm body is too small, you can put more on the hook.