Some new fish/crawfish

Got a new checkered madtom to replace my last one who died of old age at over 7 in. long. About two inches long right now but growing.


The old one, had him for over 4 yrs, RIP:


One of my two logperch. We caught them on a small hook with worm fishing for sunnies. I've seen them snorkeling, but this is the first year we've ever caught them on a line. I've never kept them in a tank and they eat suprisingly well. They're pigs. Hard to get pics of though, they never stop moving if you're nearby. About 5 in long. Also, some of my namesake nearby.


Logperch, a chub, some darters lurking around bottom, and some juvie shadowbass. I've had the latter before. Great fish, easy to feed, not aggressive, and don't generally get as big as regular rock bass.


And my favorite new acquisition, my woodland crawfish. His eyes aren't cloudy, he really does have blue eyes!:


All fish and inverts were attained are housed legally according to the Missouri Wildlife Code and state fishing regulations.
If anyone has questions on this subject, rather than derailing thread, please PM me. Thanks.

Rairdog said:

Nice pics. I want some logperch. Caught some this spring but could not make a positive ID so I released them. IN also allows keeping natives. I even had my local DNR guy come over and check out the tank. I live on a river so he is always in the hood looking for violations. Nothing better than collecting free fish 100 ft from the front door.

My rock bass never make it. They are the most shy of any I've kept.

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Hmmm. If you put on a mask and look underwater you'll recognize logperch immediately. They move like loaches, are zebra striped, they get much bigger than most darters, and they will roll rocks or divebomb the bottom and stir it up.

I don't know why your rock bass don't make it. They need a cycled tank with decent maintenance, they're not as hardy with dirty water as some sunfish. They don't handle heat well - they like it in the upper 60s and low 70s, mid 70s+ seems to stress them.
As far as food, the smaller the fish the better. We don't have size limits on them here so I get the smallest I can catch. Juvies take to just about anything, though sometime you have to start them on frozen bloodworms or glassworms.
Adults LOVE crawdads, and here that's their main diet. If you cut an adult open you will find lots of worms and crawfish. They eat them whole. I have sub adult and I've got him on a frozen crawfish meat now, but he won't take anything else dead, and he's even kind of picky with live food. Crawfish and worms is about it for him, and he doesn't even like shrimp.
My babies eat about anything. Shrimp, fish filet, some pellets and flake, glassworms, crawfish, cut up worm. And they're very outgoing - at the front of the tank as soon as they see me. However my sub adult (about 4 in long) is very skittish and shy and won't come up to you. He's actually got my greenie, who was previuosly very friendly paranoid because he sees the SB behavior and thinks something is wrong.

Yup. Went and netted some northern studfish today (first time ever), a rainbow darter, and another crawfish.

Meant to get some big longears for my 220, but the water is so low this year there weren't many in the good spot we normally go to .