Called Hu Ziyu catfish in our parents, because it has four long beard, species are also a lot of beard catfish is our parents common catfish, catfish, and slide catfish silurus meridionalis fish, they head very slippery body, size is larger than the average fish a lot, when I was young my father catch catfish is to a lot of energy. Although many people like to eat catfish in their lives, few people know what catfish eat for what.
Want to know what catfish likes to eat first or understanding the habit to catfish is good enough to know what it is to eat, catfish belongs to type vigil fish, like to live in the lakes, river and river’s lake to lower, like dark living space, where most of the activity is in the rivers and lakes of coastal areas, most of the time in the hidden themselves during the day, night, They are also carnivorous among the few non-marine fish species.
Wild catfish purge their food other than their small fish shrimp, such as the crucian carp, loach, shrimp, etc are all their prey, they have sharp teeth, they will usually use teeth cling to hold down their prey, let they have no chance to escape, wait for prey when no breath slowly enjoy dinner. They eat a lot and typically hunt two or three times a day.
Catfish in captivity are usually fed with small fish, shrimp, and sometimes chicken and duck meat, which is chopped up and then fed to them. The amount of feeding is usually about their weight, and the feeding time is usually about three times a day. The reason for the high number of feedings is that catfish have a fierce personality and will eat other catfish when hungry and engage in brutal fights.
Studies have found that catfish can also eat dead thing, and eat dead they grow faster, such as wild catfish, they may enjoy the treatment without raising catfish so good, but they are more resources, at the time of do not eat food will also go to eat some of the bodies of animals that died, these are normal, after all they eat.