Bluegill Maturity

[JEAE21]

Have you seen any other type?

just stop..
you're so annoying..i'm not even gonna get bothered by your comments anymore..
i've seen live and freeze-dried, buddy.

you should really get something else better to do, other than talk shii about me on this site. ever think of getting off the computer and going outside and playing?

 

[fishlvr]

Yes, the frozen ones. Freeze-dried don't have near as much nutritional value. I would get them on pellets though so they would grow faster. You might even get them to breed in the aquarium at 4-5" in a few months if you feed them enough.

 

[dominicolas]

In my experience some sunfish can grow extremely fast. I had a pond that when full was about 1/4 acres. We put feeder goldfish, asorted shiners, and some king of baby sunfish around an inch or less. The pond had no fish in it for a couple of years so there were water bugs and mosquito larvea like crazy. Anyway we put the sunfish in in mid March and by the end of april we were seing new babies, and in early may I fished it and pulled some of those original sunfish out and they were over 5 inches. In the right conditions these fish can reach sexual maturity in a matter of weeks.

 

[sandtiger]

Have you seen any other type?

Alive and freeze dried.

 

[sandtiger]

thanks for the info. when i say minnows, can you take it as baby fish..in general

No. Call them by what they are. Minnows aren't baby fish so don't call them that. People aren't going to start calling things by the wrong name just for you. If you want a term for baby fish use fry.

In my experience some sunfish can grow extremely fast. I had a pond that when full was about 1/4 acres. We put feeder goldfish, asorted shiners, and some king of baby sunfish around an inch or less. The pond had no fish in it for a couple of years so there were water bugs and mosquito larvea like crazy. Anyway we put the sunfish in in mid March and by the end of april we were seing new babies, and in early may I fished it and pulled some of those original sunfish out and they were over 5 inches. In the right conditions these fish can reach sexual maturity in a matter of weeks.

How large were the fish when you stocked the pond with them? And I'm sorry but no centrarchid can reproduce in a matter of weeks.

 

[fishlvr]

How big were they before they were put into the pond?

 

[fishlvr]

How large were the fish when you stocked the pond with them? And I'm sorry but no centrarchid can reproduce in a matter of weeks.

As far as I know, there aren't ANY egglayers capable of that, except MAYBE annual killifish.

Livebearers, like palties, for example, can reproduce in as short as 10 days after birth.

 

[JEAE21]

haha mine were around 2" average..i'm hoping some of the bigger guys can breed next spring