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Channel Cats are very smart, so if you catch them and release them you will have a hard time catching them a 2nd time. Will you be filtering and cleaning the water or letting nature take it's course? Will you be aerating the water to keep the O2 levels up?

It all matters when you are talking about carrying capacity, which you are wanting to know about. I picked up Channel Cats from a supplier last week and they said they are growing them from fingerling to 2+ pounds each in 15 months.

You are talking about roughly 1/20th of an acre surface area.

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