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Brem and Carppie
Are wild Brim and Crappie safe for a pond with
Goldfish? The GF are all over 3 inches long up to about 8 inches. Ron -- ------------------------------------------------- C.R."Ron"Lawrence KC4YOY Antique Radio Collector & Historian NCI-5445 POBox 3015 Matthews, NC 28106-3015 704-289-1166 (home) Radio Collection Web Page, http://www.radioheaven.homestead.com Clough-Brengle equipment web page http://CloughBrengle.homestead.com CC-AWA Web Page, http://www.cc-awa.org |
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"Ron, KC4YOY" wrote in message m... Are wild Brim and Crappie safe for a pond with Goldfish? The GF are all over 3 inches long up to about 8 inches. snip I don't know if these species are compatible, but I would suggest if you are introducing wild-caught fish to your pond, you should quarantine them for awhile first to be sure you are not bringing any hitchhikers along with the new fish. BV. |
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"Ron, KC4YOY" wrote in message om...
Are wild Brim and Crappie safe for a pond with Goldfish? The GF are all over 3 inches long up to about 8 inches. Ron From my experiences crappie and sunfish are not aggressive to other fish. I've raised various species of sunfish such as blue gills, pumpkinseeds, and green sunfish. They all get along well. What's neat is that species like the green sunfish set up territories but they will compress their territories as more fish are added. So they dont kill each other trying to defend a large spot. More fish just mean more territories. It's a shame that the sunfish family is dark on the top. Most people enjoy koi and goldfish because they can see them from above which isnt the case with berm. Sunfish are very smart fish, much smarter than the carp family (koi, goldfish, etc). Sunfish in an aquarium will stare at you and watch you and they are quite aware of your presence. As you move along they will turn to watch you. One time in a fish store I came upon a bluegill in a large aquarium. It was starring me down. Everytime I moved to be able to see its side it turned to stare at me. I left the fish and went to check out and as I was standing there I had that wierd feeling that someone was watching me. I turned and sure enough that bluegill was starring me down from 30 feet away. Sam |
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Sunfish are very smart fish, much smarter than the
carp family (koi, goldfish, etc). Sunfish in an aquarium will stare at you and watch you Not arguing the smartness factor, but I've had young koi in aquariums swim to the glass when I approach and wag their tails as furiously as a new puppy to get fed. Always worked on me too. ) ~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?) |
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If one was to set up a tank say a 50 gallon could you keep Bluegill or
Sunfish? What would you feed them? I am really getting hooked on fish. The ponds are doing great on the porch the yard one is coming along and will have fish, next spring I hope. The house tank is running, but is empty of fish right now. And I have a beta here on the desk that follows me around his tank to watch me. Yep, 3 goldfish from 3 grandkids several years ago sure have snowballed into a hobby for us. Maybe everyone should give a grandparent a 3 gallon tank and a betta in September for Grandparent Day! KathyAZ "Sam Hopkins" wrote in message om... "Ron, KC4YOY" wrote in message om... Are wild Brim and Crappie safe for a pond with Goldfish? The GF are all over 3 inches long up to about 8 inches. Ron From my experiences crappie and sunfish are not aggressive to other fish. I've raised various species of sunfish such as blue gills, pumpkinseeds, and green sunfish. They all get along well. What's neat is that species like the green sunfish set up territories but they will compress their territories as more fish are added. So they dont kill each other trying to defend a large spot. More fish just mean more territories. It's a shame that the sunfish family is dark on the top. Most people enjoy koi and goldfish because they can see them from above which isnt the case with berm. Sunfish are very smart fish, much smarter than the carp family (koi, goldfish, etc). Sunfish in an aquarium will stare at you and watch you and they are quite aware of your presence. As you move along they will turn to watch you. One time in a fish store I came upon a bluegill in a large aquarium. It was starring me down. Everytime I moved to be able to see its side it turned to stare at me. I left the fish and went to check out and as I was standing there I had that wierd feeling that someone was watching me. I turned and sure enough that bluegill was starring me down from 30 feet away. Sam |
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I kept both plus large mouth bass fry (bass are VERY fun) in a 50 gallon
aquarium many years ago. They will learn to eat just about anything but prefer live. They need protien obviously. Small meal worms and other kinds of bugs work. I also feed them regular fish food for protien eating fish. The bream take to this better than the bass. Kathy wrote: If one was to set up a tank say a 50 gallon could you keep Bluegill or Sunfish? What would you feed them? I am really getting hooked on fish. The ponds are doing great on the porch the yard one is coming along and will have fish, next spring I hope. The house tank is running, but is empty of fish right now. And I have a beta here on the desk that follows me around his tank to watch me. Yep, 3 goldfish from 3 grandkids several years ago sure have snowballed into a hobby for us. Maybe everyone should give a grandparent a 3 gallon tank and a betta in September for Grandparent Day! KathyAZ "Sam Hopkins" wrote in message om... "Ron, KC4YOY" wrote in message om... Are wild Brim and Crappie safe for a pond with Goldfish? The GF are all over 3 inches long up to about 8 inches. Ron From my experiences crappie and sunfish are not aggressive to other fish. I've raised various species of sunfish such as blue gills, pumpkinseeds, and green sunfish. They all get along well. What's neat is that species like the green sunfish set up territories but they will compress their territories as more fish are added. So they dont kill each other trying to defend a large spot. More fish just mean more territories. It's a shame that the sunfish family is dark on the top. Most people enjoy koi and goldfish because they can see them from above which isnt the case with berm. Sunfish are very smart fish, much smarter than the carp family (koi, goldfish, etc). Sunfish in an aquarium will stare at you and watch you and they are quite aware of your presence. As you move along they will turn to watch you. One time in a fish store I came upon a bluegill in a large aquarium. It was starring me down. Everytime I moved to be able to see its side it turned to stare at me. I left the fish and went to check out and as I was standing there I had that wierd feeling that someone was watching me. I turned and sure enough that bluegill was starring me down from 30 feet away. Sam |
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On Mon, 31 May 2004 16:34:30 GMT, "Ron, KC4YOY"
wrote: Are wild Brim and Crappie safe for a pond with Goldfish? The GF are all over 3 inches long up to about 8 inches. Ron ive got some bluegills and fathead minnows in a 3500 gallon pond and am enjoying alot the fatheads have a worryable death rate but the sunfish are the toughest in north america the lowest disolved oxygen totaly nitrite imune will stand humoungas salt levels. i stocked 100 (the min order localy) and 1 pound fatheads 200 to 300 in april into the pond when it was only 6 weeks old and ive lost 1 bluegill and about 30 fatheads so-far |
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