comets with sunnies?

[Gill Blue]

What do you think?
I have 4 bluegill, 5 longears, and plan to add 1 or 2 warmouth and 5-6 pumkinseeds to a 240 (72x30x26).
the tank will be heavily wooded and probably a very rocky bottom to reduce spawning attempts.
the tank itself won't be set up for months yet, but the way my gills have grown I think I should get the comets (2) soon so they have time to grow and aren't just over priced feeders.

 

[PennReels84]

If the comments are big enuf

 

[TankDempsey]

Do you mind if I ask why? I guess I'm not one to ask about strange fish combos, but unless you like the way they look I see no point, you could just get some different cool looking natives. Otherwise It would work if they're big enough, they are basically multi colored carp which live along-side natives all the time.

 

[Chub_by]

I have sunfish with goldfish..boring(the goldfish) but it works

 

[Mr.Catfish]

Yep,it'll work.

 

[Gill Blue]

I do like the way the look, tank. the ones we had in a small backyard pond were active and inquisitive. I was planning on all natives , until I saw the ones available at petsmart. some very striking black and gold fish.
after some research I'm a bit confused though. about 50% of the stuff I've read says they'll lose the black as the mature, the other says they keep the coloration. the ones we had were all gold at 8 inches, but they were gold when we got them at about 1.5-2 inches.

 

[Chub_by]

They all start out black(grey) then turn gold. There are some with actual black colorationn though. They start getting gold at 2".

 

[TankDempsey]

I do like the way the look, tank. the ones we had in a small backyard pond were active and inquisitive. I was planning on all natives , until I saw the ones available at petsmart. some very striking black and gold fish.
after some research I'm a bit confused though. about 50% of the stuff I've read says they'll lose the black as the mature, the other says they keep the coloration. the ones we had were all gold at 8 inches, but they were gold when we got them at about 1.5-2 inches.

thats awesome. Everyone has a preference to the fish they like. I think it'll work, but bluegills and warmouth do eat minnows, so make sure they're at least 4 inches long as a wild guess... Warmouth have Bass-like mouths as their name suggests and could probably down a small to mid sized one no problem.

 

[MN_Rebel]

I kept goldfish with the sunfish in the past...no issues. I had a bud kept his sunfish with two huge fancy goldfish and a huge redtail shark in a 75gal....odd combo but it works for long time.

 

[ShipOfFools37]

It'll most certainly work as long as the sizes are the same. Anything too small becomes overpriced feeders just as you mentioned. I'm not a huge goldfish fan but they'll certainly add more color!