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right at 100 degrees was the temp. at 11 am was when we ketched our FRY ......just saying :Rofl
right off the dock in the shade with a butterfly net and EXACTLY 2 dips and 30 plus in the coffee can , just saying
then run fast to the aquarium before the heat gets to you and them ...... rotfl
Pretty cool. Ketchn fish breeder extrodinaire. From ur title I was expecting a pan o grease and some fish tacos! Thems lil fellers are finger sammich size!
I need to try this with my girls. Been wanting something else in my aquarium besides those minnows. Would really love a black crappie.
I used to raise bass and crappie in the aquarium about 35 years ago. I'd feed them mosquito larvae that I'd net out of the bird bath with a minnow net.
Found out right quick that rocks in the bottom of the tank gave the skeeters something to hide in. Started getting mosquitoes in the house
that hatched out of the fish tank. I took the rocks out and left them fewer places to hide. I'd also got Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) to help
keep them in control and be a possible food source. Whatever you do, don't put crawdads in the aquarium, or they'll grab and eat your fish.
Enjoy!
Jim
Pretty positive these are all bluegill, could be wrong , not likely though :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
Aquariums are or have been my thing for a very long time . If one sets up a freshwater or saltwater aquarium properly, they turn into either a mini lake or an ocean .Quote:
Originally Posted by Yak Fish
Raised a few things that are illegal to own nowadays, the stonefish was just about the coolest fish ever , looked like a bunch of colorful sponges and would strike food with speeds that were blinding.
Knew it was poisonous, but had no idea how highly venomous it really was . These days I imagine you can’t legally have one and if you could it would be quite possibly deadly to get stung by it .
Also had a blue spotted stingray for a while too and here tell that venom is quite possibly deadly as well .
Raised a few of them from babies, the stonefish was the size of a grape when I got it and I gave it up at about baseball size to a friend. The green blenny wolf eel I got when it was a baby was just terribly cool to feed . It would strike so fast and hard that it often drove its head clean thru its prey !
Beyond all that , I had tanks full of stuff all over the place. Some were simply freshwater native fish , some not so much . Wasn’t near as expensive back when as it is now to acquire cool critters and in some cases , we would horse trade a bit , my whatever for your whatever…:Rofl
1 inch or less is the longest in the herd , pretty darn tiny for sureQuote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
Yep crawdads are a for sure no no , no puffers or triggers with the peppermint shrimp and no anemones either ,,,,:Rofl
Some stuff considers other stuff just food items ….:yikes
I’ve had aquariums all my life. Love them!
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Originally Posted by Ketchn
Mantis shrimp are also tank population wreckers.
I did mostly freshwater tanks. The Ph in the well water here allowed me to grow some superior plants, which I traded for tropical fish or feeder fish for my native species tank. I don't keep or raise fish anymore. I've been scuba diving for 30 years to get my marine species fix. I'm convinced that watching fish react and interact in their native environment underwater has helped me become a better fisherman.
Jim
Jim
The reason they used to be in all the doctors offices back when was to lower blood pressure and anxiety.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
Can watch one like a tv when the fish are in active mode is me …:highfive
My favorite was when I had a school of over 100 cardinal tetras. They would move in waves, it was mesmerizing to watch.
Triggers are pretty tough characters, they can sure incinerate a gold fish into a golden pink cloud in a second or 2 ….Quote:
Originally Posted by Yak Fish
Never kept a mantis shrimp , most of my predators all required dedicated just to them tanks , gets pretty complex and difficult to run that many tanks at a time just for fun you know.
Did keep a few baby groupers, scorpion fish , lion fish and puffers together for a while in a 100 gallon, they were all lil ones and got along pretty well …:highfive
Coolest thing I ever saw, a baitshop somewhere up around TN line used to have aquariums, had a sauger about 6 inches long. Forget where it even was, but I’d like to do that!
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One here keeps a monster white channel cat in their big tank , pretty cool critterQuote:
Originally Posted by J White
Might consider a grass pickerel , bet it would be a really cool fish for a petQuote:
Originally Posted by J White
Feathercraft has a pickerel in a 20 gallon tank that they've had for a long, long time. Very cool fish if you don't mind a one fish tank. Should be fun watching those little ones grow up, certainly look like gills but might have one or two that might be something else. They all look alike when they are small. Pet shop had a small gar in a tank when I was growing up. Talked my buddy into sticking a finger in the tank to see if it would bite him. It did.. Fun memories.
I like my FRY temp to be right at 350 degrees, everything comes out nice and crispy :Rofl
often times a tank is a one fish tank if it has a predator in it , once put 3 Oscars in a tank and about 3 months later i was down to one .....:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS
Had some Oscars at one time that were big enough to fillet. Put two smaller ones into the bigger one's tank in an attempt to breed them and he gave them a small corner of the tank. Anytime one would attempt to leave the corner they got hammered. After a couple days of this I took them out, minus some scales. I'm sure he would have killed them eventually. They sure loved night crawlers.
and fingers too .....used to get a kick out of the stick your finger in the water with folks that dint understand how aggressive an Oscar was .....:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS