Caught a new pickerel for the 125 today

[ceeej31]

some larger sunfish might work, but than again yesterday i saw a pickrel get chased around by a sunfish that was smaller than it

 

[demjor19]

My best guess is that the fish is around 10 to 12 inches. And yes im feeding it dace im trying to give it enough dace so it will stay away from the young sunfish but hes already eaten three sunfish and who knows how many dace. It really suprised me when it ate within a few hours of being put in the tank. Im hoping to get some larger tank mates, theyll have to be bigger than his mouth. Any suggestions?

very nice! i thought he was a bit bigger than that, but it will probably make the transition easier being a younger fish.

 

[le patron]

beautiful fish! i had one that i caught but during transportation it died. i took some pics of it before it died tho. if you want you can find the thread i forget what its called

 

[Dovii dude]

Real nice fish!!!!!

 

[Moontanman]

well as far as i know that is a cold water fish so if there is a southern pike or something i would love to know about it where was this fish caught??

I live in the deep south, we have chain pickerels and redfin pickerels, both are caught in water in the mid 80's in the summer and 70's for all but maybe 4 or five months of the year. Generally they do well in warm water year round but some of the southern fish need a short cold snap to breed.

 

[lostnight]

Cool fish. Never had anything like that but over the years I have researched keeping them in captivity. They don't seem to fight with other species at all from what I've read. They just don't have territorial instincts like fish from the cichlid and sunfish families have. So I think with a fish from the sunfish family, they will either try to devour it, or if it's too big to be eaten, get pushed around by it. There might be some middle ground where you're ok, but finding that middle ground might be quite tricky. Crappies seem more passive, maybe a very large one would work. But I could still see the pickerel trying to go after one like it's a pancake. Maybe a similar sized catfish would be ok.

If I had that fish and your setup, I'd just go out fishing with very light tackle a couple times a week, and stock the aquarium with small bluegills and similar sized fish, expecting them to get eaten eventually. I wouldn't bring back any fish big and mean enough to pick on the pickerel.

Very interesting fish with unique challenges. Looking forward to see how much luck you have with it.

 

[le patron]

IMO, its a Grass pickerel.

nice use of johnas aquarium pics, however you just broke a copyright on that picture. it is not to be used without permission from the copyrighter. also, that looks nothing like the first pickerel. thats a chain pickerel no doubt.

 

[windex780mg]

I'm not in Kansas anymore, no sir re bob nope this is not Kansas... heck if I know

 

[MHcblues119]

Try and catch a bullhead..Would go great with him

 

[MHcblues119]

STCIN7 HE caught it