Backyard Aquaponics
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What do you think is better tasting fish.they say for both of them that they are muuddy tasting but if water is clean maybe they are good tasting.
PS what do you think about kissing gouramy or midas chiclid for human consuption

Can't help you on this one except to say that the European bullhead is a different genus from the American version so you'll want to know which fish anyone is talking about.

I'm thinking the Kissing Gourami is a tropical so you may want to check on the acceptable temperature range for these.

Carp is full of bones so I hear. Catfish yields tasty boneless fillets. I have never experienced the "muddy" taste that others describe, though people that usually don't eat catfish have eaten mine and said it doesn't have the "muddy" taste. I raise channel catfish and tilapia. I think I like the tilapia better, though it's been a year since I had catfish. The current batch isn't up to size yet.

I have four ponds full of bullhead catfish, I have large man made clay ponds built around 20 years ago for 4 of them and the fifth right behind my house was made about 43 years ago. I do not feed any of the fish that I have they just live naturally off of what is in the ponds and bugs and wahtnot and my fish taste great, in fact I prefer the flavor of them over my large mouth bass.

One complaint that I have with the bullhead catfish is the small size, it takes a few to make a decent meal and it is a bit of work fro not a lot of meat, but again they are quite tasty.

One thing about carp is that from what I have seen they will get quite a bit large than a bullhead catfish, more meat per fish. I eat mostly bass largely due to the fact that I can catch a large bass from pond 18 to 22 inches and make a meal from one fish where I generally have to catch half a dozen bullheads to get a meal.

I don't know a lot about it but some pond management might help turn that around? Could just have too many catfish that they are stunted or maybe switch a pond to channel cats and see if they do better or something?