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[Sean Phillips]

I have a rain barrel outside that's full of mosquito larvae..I just swish my aquarium net around in it for a a few seconds then put them in my tank. Darters go crazy for them.

I'd love to do that but my mom said no (for now), as soon as I'm old enough to move out I'm going take over my house with stuff like that

[Sean Phillips]

Congrats! Glad to hear it's going well.

Thanks!

Here's a picture of the tank and fish since I was to tired to post pics last night.

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[Sean Phillips]

Fed them today and thankfully they all finally ate. Fed live brine shrimp and the darters immediatly spazzed out going crazy for it, the sunfish ate probably about 10, and the chub ate 3 i believe. Since then the sunfish had one or two in its mouth that it spit out so I hope he's just filled up and not not liking the food. Going to feed them live brine again tomorrow morning and try frozen bloodworms tomorrow night. I also noticed they're getting less and less skittish around people

PS, I do name my fish so if anybody has any name suggestions for any of them let me know.

Edited by Everything Fish, 04 June 2014 - 04:30 PM.

[Sean Phillips]

Fed them this more live brine this morning and everybody ate but the chub who just swam through them. Going to try frozen bloodworms tonight unless anybody thinks I should keep doing live for a while.

@NotCousteau, well if it were my birthday I might consider that . The male darter's name is Al, that was decided last night. Now we need the female darter's name next as well as the sunny and the chub.

[Sean Phillips]

Update, the chub died Thursday evening from unknown causes but he wasn't looking to shabby the day before either (either he already has something or the sunfish really beat home down). Everybody is still eating good otherwise and I swear the sunfish has grown half an inch already . Also, the sunfish's name is Apollo (Ap or AP for short) so now just a good name for the female darter.

[Sean Phillips]

I'll be trying to get the sunfish on pellets in the next few days so what're some good pellet brands and types to try since there's none made specifically for sunfish?

[Sean Phillips]

I would say chiclid gold.

Thanks, what size pellet should I go with? Looking at the hikari site I'm thinking start with mini since the sunfish is only 2.25-2.5'

[Sean Phillips]

Picked up some hikari cichlid gold mini pellets for the sunfish. Also, long story short I'm going out fishing on Monday to catch a male green sunfish that I can out with the female (it'll be in quarantine until I move the darters out to give it more room). If I see any aggression between the two (sunfish) once I put them together then I'll put the female in my 75 gallon. This probably sounds out of nowhere so if you have time this explains why: http://www.monsterfi...s-Green-Sunfish

[Sean Phillips]

Alright, and yeah I'm well aware of the "experts" on MFK . Do you think two in a 30 long will be ok in terms of aggression? Like I said I can always move the female into my 75 worst comes to worst.

Edited by Everything Fish, 18 June 2014 - 09:42 PM.

[Sean Phillips]

I would not hesitate at all. Green sunfish can certainly adapt to small bodies of water. Around here, almost every culvert with a 6 foot pool beneath it has a breeding population of 2- 3 inch adult green sunfish.

Great!