Bluegill experience??

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I do. I have a tank with two pumpkiseeds and a bullhead. Eventually when I can I am going to put them is a larger tank (75g probably) and make it a biotope. I am only going to have gravel, driftwood and plants that came from the place I collected the fish.\

Here is that place. You really don't want to get me talking about this tank setup...I'm way to excited.
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In the past I have kept other natives but mostly for a short time, these one I plan on keeping for life. Some of them have been...

Creek chubs
Tesselated darters
Bluegill
Largemouth Bass
Blacknose Dace
Chain pickerel
Central Stoneroller
Flordia Flagfish
 
Not right now but I have kept several in the past. I do it pretty much everywhere I go. On ChaeJudo island between Korea and Japan I kept a small tide pool dweller tank and a 20g stocked with local weather loachs, paddy minnows that were like skinny gambusia, some little speckled cyprinids, and some bumble bee shrimp that all came from within a couple miles of my aid station. I never did find out what those fish were but they were natives there.
Here in the states I do pretty much the same thing by stocking tanks with whatever is local.
 
sandtiger said:
Just think, 10 years from now you can take the bluegill down to a lake, take a picture of you holding it and get awarded for a world record bluegill!!! Then put it backi nyour tank and wait another few years.
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ive thought of doing that on many accasions., but mine never seem to pass the 9 1/2" mark before i want to get another 50 lil ones to start over with and select the few i want to raise.

btw, what is the world record for bluegill, sunfish ect.
 
great personallity could always get them to eat out of my hand
but i really like the warmouth like a bluegill but close to like a jaguar ciclid or a cuban ciclid in behavior very good colors on one i had it would eat earthworms out of my hand sometimes would jump to get them
 
i used to have a tank with two sunfish, a perch and a bullhead in it for about a year and a half... my son had caught the two sunfish actually. was a cool display, but then one sunfish took a dislike to the other (apparently) while i was at work and it was dead by the time i got home from work. it pissed me off, so i took the remaining fish out and back to a local lake... now, i am back to tropicals once again...
 
they are really cool. mine is only 1.5" and it trys to eat everything that can fit in its mouth
 
1998 South Carolina, the picture is of it after it got back from the taxidermist, I just posted this in another thread.
 
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