Catfish is a carnivorous animal, mainly feeding on small fish, shrimp, and aquatic insects, such as crucian carp, gobies, whelks, carp, loaches, etc. If it is an artificially farmed catfish, it can be fed with earthworms, pig's lungs, chicken intestines, small miscellaneous fishes, silkworm pupae, or animal feed.

Catfish eat what food

Catfish is the catfish order, catfish family under the animals collectively, also called bearded fish, pond fish, bearded chub, raw fish, etc., the circumference of the body without scales, the surface of the body more mucus, the upper and lower jaws each have four whiskers.

Catfish mainly live in the Yangtze River, Pearl River Basin, April to July each year is the best season to eat, its meat is tender and less prickly, rich in protein, fat and other nutrients, the general population can be eaten.

Catfish is a kind of bottom fierce fish, like to live in the river near the bank of the rock crevice, deep pit, soil hole, stone hole, etc., in the quiet water more ambush in the dark bottom.