i try to buy my natives, but at my local boat access there under water humps that contain the best sunfish. talking the orange, blue speckled bottom ones. thinking of catching a few. what is the QT process. put some tank water in with tap? how will I know they are ready to be put in tank. I mean they are not use to my fish disease and my fish is not use to the sunfish's. I assume if I am keeping it right it wont show any signs of sickness in qt, so without being more confusing how will I know it is ready to put the sunnie into main tank
catching wild and putting in severum tanks
- Thread starter mopani
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I'd qt for at least 4 weeks if you can with 6 weeks being preferred. If you notice that they have no visible ailments then it's probably safe to put them in your main tank. Although if possible it'd be good to treat them for parasites if possible.
Cant answer that one, sorry. When my striped raphael catfish had an internal parasite I just gave him a 20 minute salt bath for three days in a row then he started to recover nicely. But I'm now sure that's the best mean of treating for them if you're not absolute that they have parasites, I was sure mine did which is why I went to such drastic measures.
The shape of sunfish and sevs are too close: you're asking for aggression issues.
Mixing (wild) native fish and tropicals is a bad idea for any number of reasons.
Matt
Mixing (wild) native fish and tropicals is a bad idea for any number of reasons.
Matt
That depends. Bluespotteds and Orangespotteds are MUCH more docile than sunfish such as Bluegills and Pumpkinseeds. IMO they'd go great with a sev assuming he doesn't have a super aggressive sev and moves the decor around.
People get freaked out about putting natives with tropicals, bbut with sunfish atleast there is no reason you can, other than temprement. They do fine at low tropical, or room temps year round, and do not need a cool down unless you want to breed. Temprement does need to be considered, but just like cichlids sunfish are individuals so it just depends. It might work, it may not. I say go for it, but with a back up plan in the case it doesnt. Putting the native fish back is not a back up plan. Sunfish are great though, youll like them.