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Keeping Walleye?


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#1 Guest_fishlvr_*

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 01:47 AM

Has anyone ever kept walleye? I know they get rather large, but I also know there are some people out there with large tanks.

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 08:45 AM

people I would think would keep sauger before walleye
but even then large tanks around the size of 600 gallons would not be ok for a walleye you could push a auger or 2 in a 600 but not a walleye

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 04:48 PM

When I do my basement tank I'll consider having a Walleye or two. That won't be for another 6-8 months at least, but I'm planning on a couple thousand gallons.....hopefully.

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 12:37 AM

One of my "local" lfs's had a 500 gallon tank with a Sauger. Nice looking fish, extremely boring though. Every time we went up there, it was always under a log- and you could only see the reflection of it's eyes. It would be nice if they stayed smaller, but otherwise, I don't see getting that size of a tank for something that does absolutely nothing.

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 06:38 PM

When I do my basement tank I'll consider having a Walleye or two. That won't be for another 6-8 months at least, but I'm planning on a couple thousand gallons.....hopefully.


What do you have in mind? Concrete, plywood, indoor pond w/ viewing window? We love this kind of stuff...

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Posted 29 August 2007 - 01:44 PM

In my opinion, if you're going to have a large cold aquarium for fast growing nightime fish, a burbot would be more interesting. Burbot do hide during the day, but if your basement is dark I'm assuming that they will swim around like they do at night. If your basement isn't dark, then you can watch your burbot at night or another choice could be a whitefish or grayling.

Again, that's just my opinion, If you really insist on getting a sauger or a walleye it's your choice. I can't afford a large coldwater setup so I don't know if sauger, burbot, or grayling are easier to maintain except in that if you keep whitefish or grayling they would need smaller food, and walleye and burbot would probably only eat minnows of feeder goldfish. Also, I don't know if any river catfish species tolerate the same temperature as burbot (river catfish are not native in my state) but in Europe catfish persecute burbot so don't mix catfish with burbot.




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