Stocking 150 suggestions
#1 Guest_OfARepublic_*
Posted 13 June 2013 - 07:30 PM
If someone gave you a 150 gallon what native fish/plants would you put in it and why? It will have sand as the substrate.
#2
Posted 14 June 2013 - 07:14 AM
- 4 Nocomis chubs (whatever species is in your area I have blueheads here)
- 12-18 Notropis shiners (a smaller colorful species like yellowfins)
- 12 colorful Etheostoma darters (maybe something like rainbows or bluebreast... this could be a mix say 3 each of 4 different species... and could be all male since you would be unlikely to ever breed darters in such a community tank)
- 4 less colorful Percina darters (something like a blackbanded that has a very different swimming behavior)
- 2 Logperch (great size, personality and behavior)
- 1 Hogsucker (this is an advanced fish, but I have kept a few other suckers in the past and think it could be maintained in a large sand bottomed tank.
#3 Guest_EricaWieser_*
Posted 14 June 2013 - 08:06 PM
Notropis: http://forum.nanfa.o...-chromosus-fry/
Lepomis: http://www.nanfa.org...acpumpkin.shtml
Elassoma: http://www.nanfa.org...Egilberti.shtml
Lucania: http://forum.nanfa.o...lucania-goodei/
Etheostoma: http://forum.nanfa.o...edare-spawning/
Noturus: http://www.jonahsaqu...tnotstanaul.htm
Fundulus: http://www.nanfa.org...eroclitus.shtml
Baby fish are really cute. And profitable. And cute win-win.
Edit: And also, I've thought about it, and I think the real reason I like to breed fish is because I get bored easily. When you've got fry you're rearing, every day you see a change. They're bigger today! Ooh, today they're getting color! Like that. If you're good enough at it, you can select over time for traits you like in your adults and make your own entirely novel-looking strain. Longear sunfish. If I had a 150 gallon tank, I would try to spawn some longear sunfish. They're just gorgeous. Or orangespotted, but people have a notoriously hard time raising the fry. *sighs*
Edited by EricaWieser, 14 June 2013 - 08:13 PM.
#4 Guest_OfARepublic_*
Posted 14 June 2013 - 09:08 PM
#6 Guest_EricaWieser_*
Posted 14 June 2013 - 09:40 PM
You might want to try madtoms instead of bullheads. I haven't ever kept a bullhead myself but I'd imagine a three inch long sunfish might find its way into a ten inch long bullhead's mouth.I was thinking of getting four Bluespotted, four Banded or blackbanded and two bullhead catfish. Does this sound like it would work.
#8 Guest_Yeahson421_*
Posted 14 June 2013 - 10:29 PM
Edited by Yeahson421, 14 June 2013 - 10:30 PM.
#9 Guest_AMcCaleb_*
Posted 16 June 2013 - 09:59 AM
#11 Guest_Kazoank_*
Posted 22 June 2013 - 02:23 PM
two creek chub Semotilus Atromaculatus
2 blue-head chub Nocomis leptocephalus
a small school 10-30 of Tennessee or mountain redbelly Dace Chrosomus Tennesseensis /Oreas
5 pygmy sunfish Elassoma
10 mottled sculpins Cottus Bairdii
and some of your local shiners and suckers
In a very well vegetated tank with a dirt below and then sand this could be a very nice display tank.
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