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I REALLY want ranibow and cutthroat trout!


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Posted 27 May 2007 - 09:50 PM

I want to get one of each (rainbow and cutthroat). I was wondering if they would do well in my current setup. I have a 600 gallon above ground swimming pool with about a foot-long Northen Pike, 2 bullheads, a black crappie, and a LMB. The average temp is 60 degrees Farenheit, cooler in the shade. This pool has a wide surface area, with native plants, shade and a light current, and I change the water often. I understand these guys need oxygen and a lot of it, so I am asking if anybody else here has expierience with one these two species (I seem to remember somebody named creekcrawler who had some pics of their trout). I am not worried about them getting bullied, as trout are very pugnacious fish. My bass is a pansy, and these trout would be to big for the pike to eat, so they would be ignored.

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Posted 28 May 2007 - 08:41 AM

I want to get one of each (rainbow and cutthroat). I was wondering if they would do well in my current setup. I have a 600 gallon above ground swimming pool with about a foot-long Northen Pike, 2 bullheads, a black crappie, and a LMB. The average temp is 60 degrees Farenheit, cooler in the shade. This pool has a wide surface area, with native plants, shade and a light current, and I change the water often. I understand these guys need oxygen and a lot of it, so I am asking if anybody else here has expierience with one these two species (I seem to remember somebody named creekcrawler who had some pics of their trout). I am not worried about them getting bullied, as trout are very pugnacious fish. My bass is a pansy, and these trout would be to big for the pike to eat, so they would be ignored.

I figure they would be fine when I lived up in WNC we had 2 in a small pond near us that had no current and was muddy and the rainbows did fine

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Posted 28 May 2007 - 04:39 PM

I think that, in a few months, you will find that 600 gallons is pretty small for what you have already, especially that northern. Trout like it cool, 60 degrees may be too warm even.

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Posted 29 May 2007 - 09:25 PM

Yeah, as long as the surface area is good I've noticed they do great. Near my grandma's place in Montana, there is this medium sized (about a football field in size)pond were I catch big, pretty rainbows as well as sunfish and some kind of bullhead. The water wasn't that muddy, but it had good surface area and lots of plants in the middle.

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 10:56 PM

Rainbow may do ok in the pond, but as it was mentioned before, you may already be at your stocking limit for 600 gallons.
As for the cutthroat, I know around here they usually occur in the high mountain streams that run colder and faster than other bodies of water. 60 degrees seems warm for them compared to the temps of the streams I've seen them in.




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