Rob Denkhaus
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Crail, Todd
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:04 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Strange Bullhead Behavior - An explanation?
>
>
> The catfish (yellow bullhead and channel) I've kept, they
> have an erratic
> feeding behavoir where their whiskers are out and they just
> probe up and down
> and all around. They generally do it at night (remain
> sedentary during the
> day) but during a feeding, they'd go right at it for a bit.
> The bullhead
> would give up much more soon than the channel cat tho and
> would go back to
> lounging.
>
> Is this what you saw or were they more like "flagellating
> without cause"?
>
> I watched this enough that I changed my angling presentations
> fer kitties and
> got the bait up off the bottom (which would be the
> conventional approach).
>
> Catfishin' isn't much of a beer drinkin' "sport" anymore ;)
>
> Todd
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