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Is it possible to keep trout? Of course in a large well filtered aquarium. Has anyone?
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You would literally need around a thousand gallons (you might be able to get away with less if you can find a small speices) of cold, well oxygenated, and fast-flowing water... a chiller would be neccasary. If that's provided, then yes, you could keep them.
guppy
08-12-2005, 10:03 PM
Yes you can keep them if you have good, weell oxygenated water at around 60-64 degrees f. Brookies and small cutthroat or golden trout can be kept in a 300g tank if you only keep a couple. Rainbows, laketrout, browns, and dolly vardens all get big, cutthroat will to if once they get around a foot you slowly switch them to sw.
I'm pretty sure that cutthroat don't enter SW, and even if they don't they still get big in FW... the other day I saw a 2-3'er while diving in my area (UT). Is it possible that you're thinking of rainbows?
sandtiger
08-12-2005, 10:46 PM
Cutthrout do enter satwater.
guppy
08-13-2005, 12:44 AM
Sea run cutthroat are great to catch, I have caught many. Yes they sometimes get large in some stains but they are usually one of smaller types, most populations only reach about 18" at least here near the coast. The rainbows here often hit the 5lb mark. Either way if they get to big they fry up well.
Oops, you're right, I just had a look at my trusty Peterson's field guide to FW fishes, LOL... they even had the sea-strain pictured... *blushes*
sandtiger
08-13-2005, 9:11 PM
LOL...we all slip sometimes. :)
Those are all related to salmons, right?
sandtiger
08-28-2005, 8:50 PM
Yup. :)
nativelover
09-05-2005, 12:42 AM
if you can catch small stream trout, (we have a stream out here that the pools maybe hold 50 gallons of water and the fish barely get 8inches) you can easily keep them in 75- 100 gallon tanks. my old neighbor kept two in a 60 gal. for 3 years. im constructing a chiller out of a small refridgerater for a trout tank.
sandtiger
09-05-2005, 6:29 PM
Whats funny is that the "stream trout" are the same species as the giants that live in lakes and oceans. Perhaps trout are a species where stunting does not matter because they live everywhere. Brown trout can be caught in ankle deep streams, large lakes or the ocean.
Fish Finder
09-05-2005, 8:13 PM
i kepted two rainbow's in a 150 for about 2 year's then put them back in my friend's lake i caught them in
Nandus
09-10-2005, 7:19 PM
It depends on the sub species and location of the fish. In the rivers that drain into the Pacific, they go out to sea when the get larger (so do rainbow's). Further inland, the are purley freshwater.
fishnthings
09-10-2005, 8:01 PM
You would literally need around a thousand gallons (you might be able to get away with less if you can find a small speices) of cold, well oxygenated, and fast-flowing water... a chiller would be neccasary. If that's provided, then yes, you could keep them.
off subject: do you need a chiller for bowfin??
off subject: do you need a chiller for bowfin??
I don't think you would, they live in the same area that gar do down south. don't need a heater though. I have seen them rarley show up in lfs but I did not notice what temp. they were at.
DeLgAdO
09-10-2005, 9:33 PM
You would literally need around a thousand gallons (you might be able to get away with less if you can find a small speices) of cold, well oxygenated, and fast-flowing water... a chiller would be neccasary. If that's provided, then yes, you could keep them.
you dont really need 1000 gallons for trout, 400- 500 gallons will do fine for a rainbow trout.