Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Sucker tank
From: Dean A. Markley (damarkley at earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 07:16:58 CDT
Wow, pickerels love tadpoles? Now that's the first fish I've seen that seems to eat them! I have a 125 gallon tank with a 9 inch longnose gar, 4 4 inch pumpkinseeds, a 5 inch redeye and a pair of 3 inch bullheads. This summer, I added 6 tadpoles from a local pond (bullfrogs?). The fish investigated them rather closely but refused to eat them! Now I am shocked that the gar didn't try but I find it astonishing that the bullheads haven't eaten them at night. They seem to devour everything else their barbels come in contact with. My opinion so far is that the cats are far more aggressive than the gar!
BTW, I use pellets and flakes for these guys except Mr. Gar. Mr Gar prefers minnows, goldfish or young platies/swordtails from the LFS.
Dean
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark <nanfa at jonahsaquarium.com>
Sent: Oct 26, 2004 5:06 PM
To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Sucker tank
At 4:09 PM -0400 10/26/04, Snailcollector at cs.com wrote:
>Sorry I meant either bowfin OR queen conch. The tank is a 125 gallon
>(72"Lx18"WxH?)
>
>I already have sunfish, I like more oddball sorts of fish, maybe a
>pickeral? How often would I have to feed it fish? A bass would be
>interesting but that will get too big.
>
>Thanks, Andrew
I pickerel or two or several would love that tank. One bowfin would
rule it. Pickerels will eat all kinds of live foods: fish, worms,
crayfish, shrimp, insects, amphibians, other pickerels. They really
love tadpoles. No spines, fat and juicy, full of algal vitmains and
minerals. Yum. You need to feed them as often as you can. Young
ones grow like weeds on heavy feedings.
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: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 11:27:54 CST