Encyclopedian Dictionary ( Aquaculture ): Feeding the Catfish

Chad at BCC told us he was going to feed the catfish, and if we wanted to see them come up to eat... to follow. I captured some neat shots today, with the catfish surfacing for food pellets.

Catfish

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Catfish surfacing...

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Catfish surfacing... and food pellets floating nearby in the water.
Catfish video - Windows Media Player
feeding_catfish.wmv
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NC Freshwater Fish
Brook Trout, Salvelinus fontinalis	Rainbow Trout, Salmo gairdneri (=Oncorhynchus mykiss)	Largemouth Bass, Micropterus salmoides	Bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus
Red-ear sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus	Common carp, Cyprinus carpio	Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus	Blue Tilapia, Oreochromis aurea
Black Tilapia, Oreochromis mossambica	Hybrid Striped Bass Morone saxatilis X Morone chrysops based on Species.
Bait Species
Golden Shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas	Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas	White Sucker Catostomus commersoni	Goldfish Carassius autatus
Further Reading
Fundamentals of Aquaculture James W. Avault, Jr., Ph.D. Avault, 1996	Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States Douglas G. Smith Wiley, 2001	Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates Thorp, Covich Academic Press, 2001	Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification Wehr, Sheath Academic Press, 2003
Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts Johnson and Allen John Hopkins, 2005

Feeding the Catfish

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