Pickerel do well in warm and cold water. In the summer they spend all of their time in the shallows which reach the 80s where I'm from and even warmer in southern states.
Pickerel do well in warm and cold water. In the summer they spend all of their time in the shallows which reach the 80s where I'm from and even warmer in southern states.
Okay, would you tell me more about them then? General care and your experience with them?I think I would get a red-finned one ,I believe they grow a little smaller?
Okay, would you tell me more about them then? General care and your experience with them?I think I would get a red-finned one ,I believe they grow a little smaller?
pickerel do better at warmer temps than their big cousins (pikes, muskies). They tend to be forced to the edges of lakes and marshes due to their small size and as such spend a considerable amount of the year in 75+ water. I'm on the fence about it being a year round thing but if Siddons is having success with it then I can't argue that, mine are kept in a room temp tank so cold in winter and warmer in summer, no heaters.
I'd go redfin, they can live happily in a 75 for life, my biggest grass pickerel is pushing 10-11" so for as much as he swims I'd feel bad having him in anything other than my 310 native tank.