Up here I buy/trap fathead, dace minnows or chubs. In the spring I do alot of jig fishing with some floating jigheads or slip-corks. If and when we do get summer I like a nightcrawler or leach.
Try it and let us know. I've mixed natives and cichlid in the past with, well "mixed" results. I personally would avoid the oscar/LMB combo as oscars tend to take a beating in my own experience. Mbuna and sunfish worked well for me at least.
You paid $12 for a UA filp-flop?
Nuge you need to stop stressing over the snails. If spring ever gets this far north go out and catch some pumkinseeds to thin them down, drink a beer and go fishing (or turkey hunting).
i've kept crappie with smb, rock bass, bullheads, and bluegill with no problems, they were in a 125 though...
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How did you get them to line up that way? LOL love that pic.
I've done mbuna with CA/SA and even heated native tanks. Haps tend to take a beating but as long as the mbuna can dart into rocks they never were injured. Currently I have a breeding pair of cubans (and some xiloaensis) with a mbuna or two in a 125. No probs.
As a boy I used to tie just about everything. I was hoping to start back in again this winter but I just don't have the time. I still make/tie walleye/pike jigs.
Why is that? As far as the bullheads, go to a bait shop and ask to pick thru the minnows or ask if they have any. My son has a tiger salamander now afterwhen I saw it in a bait store with some suckers. Next try to find a slower moving inlet/outlet or farm pond. In Iowa every little pond...