Yellow perch

[Pooshybear]

A nearby reservoir was illegally stocked with yellow perch, and as such it is now filled with them. I asked around, and the park really doesnt care what you do with them, so I'm thinking about catching a few for my 120G tank.
from what I have read they eat just about whatever, flake food shouldn't take long for it to eat then.

Does anyone have experience with yellow perch?

 

[Pooshybear]

Currently QT-ing a perch, I think its got something though so a week and medication and I'll see how it is.

sorry for the double post also.

 

[RiVerfishgirl]

They don't eat just about whatever. They can be hard to get off live foods. But as far as live foods they'll accept anything. Some people do get them trained to flake or pellet.

Wouldn't suggest more than 1 for your 120g.

 

[toddnbecka]

No experience with them in aquariums, but they are good eating.

 

[RisiganL.]

I don't have a perch but I do have a green sunfish. I weaned him off of live food by first not feeding him for 2 day's then I started feeding him crickets. he started eating off the surface and then I added floating pellets with the crickets. After only about a week I was only feeding him pellets. It was very easy but it might be a bit more challeging with your perch. Hope this helps!

 

[SubRosa]

I kept one in a tank for 2 years and he' been in my mother's pond for the past 4 years. It has never taken flake or pellet, only live foods and very reluctantly it will take frozen whole animal foods like krill and silversides. On the upside they're totally peaceful with any tankmates they can't swallow. Mine lives on small Koi and Goldfish with an occasional treat of nightcrawlers when I go up to visit. He does a great job keeping the pond from getting overcrowded.

 

[Pooshybear]

Sadly the perch did not make it, I had caught one and it seemed fine until I brought it home. From there on things went downhill. He is now fertilizing my apple tree.

 

[RiVerfishgirl]

Sadly the perch did not make it, I had caught one and it seemed fine until I brought it home. From there on things went downhill. He is now fertilizing my apple tree.

They're harder to keep than sunfish or something. Need a fully cycled tank for sure, and plenty of oxygenation. And fairly cool water.

I don't have a perch but I do have a green sunfish. I weaned him off of live food by first not feeding him for 2 day's then I started feeding him crickets. he started eating off the surface and then I added floating pellets with the crickets. After only about a week I was only feeding him pellets. It was very easy but it might be a bit more challeging with your perch. Hope this helps!

Green sunfish will accept almost any food just by not feeding them for a few days.

Perch are much harder to get on prepared foods. I know of people that have had them years and they never did accept them.

I have never kept perch myself, mainly because they're not present right in this region. I could travel a bit and get one, but I don't have an interest.