Two Questions.
1. Should I have cut openings in both end of the buckets?
2. I can understand two catfish in the cave, but why would their had been a third?
Answer to Question 1. Maybe. They may have just been too big for the 5-gallon buckets.
Several years ago I dropped a number of pieces of various-length 8-inch and 10-inch PVC pipe into my pond. I didn't block either end. I did this because the catfish were digging caves in my pond banks.
I've had some survival from the spawns. I know that the white catfish have definitely been successful. I suspect that my channel cats have also been successful. I've caught channel cats that were too small to have been in the pond otherwise.
I added another 50 channel 5-6 inch cats earlier this fall.
Answer to Question 2.
M�nage � trois????
