Catfish curiosity

[Roger L.]

I was always taught that catfish were bottom feeders so you had to watch where you caught them at. If there was a lot of pollution in the water you may not want to eat it. So this leads to my curiosity question. If catfish are bottom feeders, why do they make floating catfish pellets? Just my mind wondering.

[dstjohn99]

I was always taught that catfish were bottom feeders so you had to watch where you caught them at. If there was a lot of pollution in the water you may not want to eat it. So this leads to my curiosity question. If catfish are bottom feeders, why do they make floating catfish pellets? Just my mind wondering.

The reason catfish (and other) pellets float is so you can see if you are overfeeding your fish. If the pellets sink you can't tell if there is food remaining, especially in a pond / lake / murky water environment. Also, any uneaten food is more easily removed if it floats. It's a fish farming management thing. No other reason. Smaller pellets for fingerling and juvenile fish usually are slow sinking. This helps with the transition to train the bottom feeders to look up and come to the surface.