Just found the forum and this place is great. I've been keeping natives for about 14 years now. I have an 125 gallon tank that I am setting up. Not sure what I'm gooing to put in it yet. I guess I will see what I catch first.
Pedro
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 07:30 AM
Loooong ago I took care of an ~ 200 gallon tank for a small NE Ohio college and we were given a couple extra fingerling saugeyes...anyways, I found them to be quite a pain to keep. A steady diet of fathead minnows, creek chubs, blacknose dace, and goldfish didn't seem to give him the nutritional requirements, or perhaps some parasites, but they all developed what looked like hole in the head disease. I had similar experiences with yellow perch so I chalked it up to something in the larger percid diet that wasn't being met or an inadequacy in lifesupport/captive care conditions. That said, the tank had a Magnum 350 with two biowheels, and two large penguin hang on back power filters, and I did weekly 20ish% water changes. I later went with a small longnose gar, but even such a long tank doesn't have that great of depth to it and turning around becomes a chore. I think you might find grass pickerel better inhabitants because larger fish that are often found with them, like bullheads and rock bass, could also be kept in the same tank.
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 07:57 AM
I have a grass pickerel and a bullhead in a 65 gallon tank. I really enjoy them. The grass pickerel was fun to raise. I fed small guppies at first, now it will eat commercial fish food, earthworms, and any other small fish I offer it. It just recently began eating the commercial food, it was a picky eater until it reached 9 inches, wouldn't eat anything that wasn't moving. Now it begs for food. Bullheads, of course, eat anything.
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 10:01 AM
I had a similar situation to what Matt described but did have decent success with the Sander sp. We had a sauger, saugeye, and a walleye all in the tank along with several gar and bullheads. This was in a 220 I think at Heidelberg College. We went through a tun of feeder fish, the Sander sp. did fine but I certainly would not want to pay to feed a group of them myself. I would agree with Susan if you want predators go with pickerel, maybe a gar but a Florida gar from a pet shop would be better than a longnose. Also bullheads, rock bass, or maybe warmouth should work with the pickerel or Florida gar.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 08:33 AM
Hi Pedro,
You're in grass pickerel central in Putnam county. Check out drainage ditches leading into Cranberry Creek and Riley Creek around Ottawa, Columbus Grove, Pandora and Bluffton. What you're looking for are over hanging grass "benches" that are little floodplain bars forming in the channel. The deeper the pool around it, and the more undercut the bank, the better the chance to find one.
If you happen catch least darter, Etheostoma microperca, please let me know. It's been a few years since anyone has looked at them over that area. They're special concern, so please put them back. But localities would be much appreciated! Maybe once the dust settles with my spring schedule, we can meet out in the field.
Todd
You're in grass pickerel central in Putnam county. Check out drainage ditches leading into Cranberry Creek and Riley Creek around Ottawa, Columbus Grove, Pandora and Bluffton. What you're looking for are over hanging grass "benches" that are little floodplain bars forming in the channel. The deeper the pool around it, and the more undercut the bank, the better the chance to find one.
If you happen catch least darter, Etheostoma microperca, please let me know. It's been a few years since anyone has looked at them over that area. They're special concern, so please put them back. But localities would be much appreciated! Maybe once the dust settles with my spring schedule, we can meet out in the field.
Todd
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