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Started by Guest_BlokOne_* , Jun 08 2007 03:39 AM

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#1 Guest_BlokOne_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 03:39 AM

i am possibly picking up a 150galon tank toamarow. what would you do with it. current stocking plans a very slow growing 2inch red ear slider and a 4-5inch albino chanel catfish

#2 Guest_hmt321_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 06:55 AM

the catfish will limit what you can keep, and will probably out grow that tank, (eventually)

I would go with bluegill, warmouth, rockbass, they can stay in that tank for life and will get large enough so that the cat wont eat them

I know nothing about keeping turtles so i will not comment.

#3 Guest_fishlvr_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 11:32 AM

That 2" slider won't last very long in a tank with a channel cat. C. cats grow at least 10 times faster than turtles(of course, what doesn't?). The channel will probably be about 12 or 14 inches by the time the turtle grows a millimeter, at which time it can eat (with some effort) the turtle.

#4 Guest_fisgokie_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 12:05 PM

what would you do with it? give the tank to me lol

#5 Guest_bullhead_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 12:16 PM

Turtles and fish do not mix well. One will eat t'other eventually, especially in close confines.

#6 Guest_iturnrocks_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 04:25 PM

Im curious how you think a RES is going to grow slow. I suppose if you take it out every time you feed the catfish. Otherwise a RES can get 5 inches long in its first year. You should also realize that once the RES is full size (about 10-13 inches long) that 150 gallon is going to seem quite small. RES will also attack any fish in its tank. It probably wont kill your catfish, but expect fins to be missing pieces regularly.

I think you should decide if you want a catfish or a turtle and supplement the primary animals tank with animals you dont mind losing eventually.

I once had a 2 inch RES that bit the tails off of 2 hatchling common snapping turtles.

#7 Guest_sandtiger_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 05:21 PM

Keeping turtles and fish together is generally not a good idea and a channel catfish will eventually outgrow that tank anyway. I would choose the turtle or the fish and if I chose the fish (and I would) I would likely make it a sunfish community, keep a single large fish in it, plant it with some grass pickerel and large cyprinids or make it a large community of smaller darters, madtoms, shiners etc.

#8 Guest_fishlvr_*

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Posted 08 June 2007 - 05:28 PM

Im curious how you think a RES is going to grow slow. I suppose if you take it out every time you feed the catfish. Otherwise a RES can get 5 inches long in its first year.

I know that, but that is pretty slow compared to the growth of a channel cat, which would be able to eat it before it gets full-sized. Also, on the 1st post he says he has a slow-growing 2" slider.

#9 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 10 June 2007 - 07:47 AM

As discussed before Turtles have to get out of the water and bask. They have to have a basking light close enough to heat the turtle. Thus when you have that you will have a boiling pot for you fish. Turtles and fish do not belong together in no way shape or form unless in an outdoor pond.

Other than that issue I am a sunfish lover so I would say sunfish. I would definatly not keep blue gill. I cannot see keeping such a large sunfish that yeilds such low satisfaction as far as asthetics. Northern long ear stay smaller and they are beautiful and not as aggressive. I do not know what would be compatible with them but I am attempting some blue spotted now and some orange spotted. So far the only ones that I have full grown in there are three male blue spotted. But other than that I have a couple of log perch and some tadpole madtoms.

#10 Guest_BlokOne_*

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Posted 11 June 2007 - 12:14 AM

well i didnt get the tank. but the chanel wil move in with my lmb when its big enough. and i said it is slow growing because the person i got it from was told he could keep it in a 2 1/2gallon tank half full with no lights or anything and feed it baby turtle pellets and thats all you need to do, it was in that tank for 2+years.

#11 Guest_iturnrocks_*

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Posted 11 June 2007 - 09:55 AM

i said it is slow growing because the person i got it from was told he could keep it in a 2 1/2gallon tank half full with no lights or anything and feed it baby turtle pellets and thats all you need to do, it was in that tank for 2+years.

Once the turtle gets into an appropriate sized tank, learns to swim again, and starts eating, it will start growing normal again, unless it dies from the previous mistreatment.

#12 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 11 June 2007 - 07:43 PM

Once the turtle gets into an appropriate sized tank, learns to swim again, and starts eating, it will start growing normal again, unless it dies from the previous mistreatment.

And unfurtanutaly a tank of appropriate size for red ear would be your one fifty if you ever get one. Of course the design would have to be "water low with a terraced part the turtle could get out of the water on" with ultra high filtration. And of course the basking light. And about the response of it dieing from its mistreatment I hope does not come true. I do not see why it would die once given the space it deserves. Of course they are so cute as young turtles, YOY if you will, they are irresistable. To have one in a 2.5 for a while is no problem but only for a very short time. Let this be a lesson I hope to all who want to keep a turtle if you can attain one leagly. The texas map turtle appeals to me the most because I do not believe it gets over four inches full grown. Actually I cannot recall what the books says but it may be smaller than that full grown. The next on my list would be the western painted. Both handsome turtles at that. But I do not know much about them so they may be a protected species in Texas so that is why I said if you can attain one leagly. I do not know the laws of most turtles. Though cute as babies most turtles are not to appropriate for inside aquaria unless you have like I said one of the smaller species like a texas map, black knobed back turtle or that western painted. If those are the correct names. Very neat looking turtles. I do not keep turtles because of the work involved in doing so. Filthy to the max so they need lots of attention as far as cleaning and maintainence. To me there is nothing more cute than a YOY Gulf Spiny Soft shell. Given the sand bottom they require they bury themselves in it and you cannot even see where it is till it reaches its long neck and pointed nose up for a breath. And if the water is of proper depth it can reach the top for a breath without unburing itself. Awesome sight. But to house a turtle than can atain a shell of ~ 17 inches is too much work for this guy.