First Post!! A couple pumpkinseeds I caught today.

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
nativelover said:
awesome tank! you got a full shot???

nice fish as well!!!

just as a note...bluegill tend to uproot plants like oscars do, so be prepared, im not sure about pumpkin seeds 'cause i never had one. i thought i hadone but he looked nothing like yours.
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Sure, here it is when i was cycling it with feeder goldfish. Thanks for all the welcomes guys! :D

 
If I were you I would add a red fin pickerel. I love those things. Just cant find em around here.

Chad
 
Chad55 said:
If I were you I would add a red fin pickerel. I love those things. Just cant find em around here.

Chad
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I would like to get one, just not sure how well it would do with the sunfish. The sunfish seem to be pretty agressive. I'll probably give it a shot, I can always get rid of the sunfish if they are too aggressive.
 
Dcomp said:
I would like to get one, just not sure how well it would do with the sunfish. The sunfish seem to be pretty agressive. I'll probably give it a shot, I can always get rid of the sunfish if they are too aggressive.
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I doubt the sunnies would be to aggresive because redfin pickerels are related to pike and muskie so it should be fine. I just caught a 2" pumpkinseed on Monday at Pewaukee River and it will go into a 150 gallon tank with a redfin pickerel, a few more pumkinseeds, and a pleco. Also, where do you live in Wisconcin? Welcome to MFK.
 
M|L said:
natives are awesome... I'm just too cheap to buy a chiller LOL.

I'd stock that tank with some muskies/pikes, bass, flathead cat, snook, bowfin, and whatever other nice native predators. :D
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Pfffft....you don't need no stinkin chiller :grinno:. At least not for sunfish or most the fish you listed.

Great looking tank and nice pumpkinseed as well. They are great fish, very much like oscars if you have ever had them. Once you keep sunfish you realize how over rated cichlids are. Just kidding, cichlids are great but sunfish are just as good and personally I prefer them.
 
fishyz said:
I doubt the sunnies would be to aggresive because redfin pickerels are related to pike and muskie so it should be fine. I just caught a 2" pumpkinseed on Monday at Pewaukee River and it will go into a 150 gallon tank with a redfin pickerel, a few more pumkinseeds, and a pleco. Also, where do you live in Wisconcin? Welcome to MFK.
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A sunfish would own a pickerel/pike/muskellunge anyday. While members of the pike family do eat other fish they are not very aggresive and probably won't bother any fish that won't fit down it's throat. Sunfish however are rather aggresive, putting many cichlid to shame. That's not to say it won't work but don't think that just because it's a pike it's safe.
 
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