The plan is a bunch of bluegill/pumpkinseeds, maybe a couple crappie. Couple crawdads. Also want like 4 spotted raphael cats for clean up duty. I have large gravel so need something that will really goafter the leftovers. Ive had good luck with tapheals in the past. Not planning to heat the tank so might not work out. Trying to stay native, but want to stay with the smaller local fish. Bass and channel cats get too big and/or agressive. That being said I caught a smallmouth, crawdad and 3 medium bluegill I am cycling the tank with. If they survive I remove the fish and order a couple dozen baby pumkinseeds to raise and cull over the first year to get a good semi harmonious group to keep.
New setup. Lots of questions. Flow and filtration
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I would like to set up a centrarchid tank myself, at some point. What drainage are you in? There must be a madtom in a stream near you... Would be the perfect gravel scavenger that would satisfy the native calling, and they don't get bigger than 6"-8".
In California. Never heard of a madtom. We have channel and bullhead catfish. Closest river is the Stanislaus.
I stand corrected... clearly all of my species sampling has been on the east coast! Despite there being some 29 species in the genus Noturus, they are all native to the east/central US, nothing west of the divide. It makes sense, I just have so rarely sampled in a system that didn't contain at least one species of madtom, they are ubiquitous in my mind.
I don't know....I see it differently. The whole point of having a sump is not having to put equipment in the display tank. If you're building the sump and setting up the tank, why not just make the pumps in the sump the size you need to turn the tank over in the first place. It looks better, and it's more cost effective.
