new tank ideas

[elgrecoverde]

thanks for the post, aquaman. turns out what i at first THOUGHT was a local species of loach is actaully a banded darter. i'm not very familiar with native fish, hence the mistake. now i know what to look for in the future.
:bowing:
thanks for the help

 

[reiverix]

One of my friends kept a little pike in a 40g tank for about 6 months before releasing it back where he caught it. It was about 4 inches long but really didn't do very much except sit in a corner among the plants. Being an ambush predator, I guess the pike was just acting like a pike.

It was a great showpiece fish but quite boring as far as personality goes. He was afraid to feed it anything live in case that bony head went through the tank at high velocity, so it lived on chopped eels, cod and worms.

 

[Carpmouth]

I'm glad to see that their others on this board who are into native fish. A couple of decades ago, I kept largemouth bass, bluegills, warmouth, green sunfish, pumpkinseed, etc, at one time or another in small 10 and 20 gallon aquariums. All of these fish tend not to like company and are best kept by themselves if housed in such small tanks. If people knew what great pets these fish made, the fish stores would be in trouble. All of the aforementioned fish (all members of the sunfish family) tame down quite well and will take food from your hand after they get used to you. Bass can even be taught to jump a few inches oout of the water to grab a minnow from your hands. These fish will also let you touch them. These fish will also look at you as walk around the room.

Now I'm setting up a 180 gallon tank and I can't wait to stock it. I'm thinking of trying to have one each of a largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass in the the 4 to 8" range. Or I might see if I can just get one each of each of the sunfish family - real small ones. What I end up keeping will depend how they all get along.

 

[elgrecoverde]

good luck with that 180. my wife's hoping to get somewhere around a 150 in the future, but she's partial to gourami's. my sunfish, which i'm now thinking is a dollar sunfish, will then get to move into her 55.

 

[><(((\"> JLange]

Muskie Growth

Thank you very much for all of the information that you gave. I have found a supplier that will basically give me the fish that I want. I think he told me that he would sell musky for .30 cents an inch. He has them starting around two inches. Do you think that I might be able to get two years out of them in my tank? I do have a private 50 acre pond that I have already gotten permission to release musky in. I'm also sure that they wouldn't have a problem with bass, walleye, bluegill, or pearch. I've only been told not to introduce Northerns (pike). I was hoping to keep them a couple of years though. Think that is possible?

I got a 9" long Tiger Muskie a year ago in September. In just 16 months he.it is over 26" long. He outgrew the 120 gallon tank I had him in and now have a 950 gallon tank for him.

JOhn ><>

 

[Dr.trout]

Do you have the guys web site or info for the musky he is selling,or dose anyone else have info for places toget them,and ohter fish like panfish.I have exoerience being i got 3 trout in my 60 gallon.