BLUEGILL BREEDING

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has anyone successfully bread bluegill in aquarium? i just picked up a sperm shooting male, and a very big bellied female "i think". just turned my heaters up to 80. i know they start spawning at 75 in lakes and ponds. anyone?:headbang2
 
Agreed. When I was an amateur fish keeper, I raised natives in a 60 and raised the the temp to 80 and the next day, all of the fishes were dead.
 
considering bluegill live in florida and miami, and the water can easily get over 80* its not gona kill them.

I keep my native tank at 79* and have no problems.
 
my longear sunfish just spawned in my 125 gallon, ive got 5 longears and a green sunfish in the tank along with 6 pleco's unfortunatly i gravel vac'd the tank before i noticed the eggs, about a hundred eggs are left on the rocks and the male longear is definatly doing his thing waving water over the eggs.

my tank is 66-72* it changes temps depending on the outside temps, its in my basement.

80* for a native tank is WAY to hot unless your from south america or central america and keep natives for that area.

matthew
 
I think it all depends on where you're catching them from. Up here in Michigan they do fine in 40-70* water. In California I'd assume you're catching the same exact species but its just used to warmer waters. I pulled 2 out earlier this year and very carefully and slowly acclimated them into my 74* tank and they started dying within 2 minutes. I took them out, threw them in a 68* tank and they did alright but still not so great. One of them jumped out of a 1" gap I had and I found him stuck to the cement the next morning, the other one died when my bubbler got unplugged. What I learned.. Wild caught bluegill (from my area) need cooler water and a ton of oxygen. If it were me personally I would not keep a heater on their tank at all just to save on electricity. I know for a fact that they can breed in room temperature. They are native and overstocked just about everywhere in the U.S. so they obviously have a wide range of habitats that they can breed in. Like I said I'd go with room temperature unless you live in a igloo, but do what you want although I still wouldn't recommend anything over 75*.
 
macantley, did you do anything special to get them to spawn? I've been going back and forth on stocking a tank with either bluegill and tilapia for breeding for an aquaponics setup. From what i've heard the tilapia breed like rabbits...the bluegill not so much.
 
i didnt do anything special, feed them dry foods and sometimes feeder fish and earthworms, i noticed the females belly was getting larger a couple weeks ago, but never noticed she laid eggs, its a 125 gallon tank that does get some sunlight from a window, i have some rocks in one area of the tank, 1" or so round rocks grouped up in the middle to be kinda like a rocky bottom of a river, and the other side of the tank switches to clay type gravel thats real small, good for live plants, i think the pleco's have eatten the eggs which is normal for pleco's to do, but my algae issues are gone, once the tank clears up completely im going to switch to just one common pleco and hope it does a good cleanup job.

i did not do anything special for them to breed though, the male longears in my tanks have been in breeding colors for over a month now.

caught them all with a line and hook

matthew
 
heres a i video i found when i was rearranging my hard drive

this was bout two years ago. tank 135gallon at the time the tank mates were 1 13 inch oscar, two female green sunnies bout 4-6 inches, 1 male sunny bout 8 inches. a full grown female afc. a 16 inch common pleco. a clam and a dumb crawfish that you can see in the video. he was dumb enough to sit ontop of that root right above the nest and the o found him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLYDFqXFBRM
 
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