Freshwater Canadian predators?

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warmouth;4924071; said:
Pike could be kept in a species only tank, only if the 8ft tank was a growout. You would also have to have incredible filtration and oxygenation of the tank. Pike and Lake Trout would be incredible also.....but since he said he didnt have a big enough tank for a Musky I thought it would be out of the question.
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I remember on a fishing trip to Canada I once had alls we could catch was lake trout and pike, and 15 pound pike was very common up there.
 
I have been thinking for months on what to get here for a native preditor, I live in Saskatchewan. Problem is everything grows too big!. one hour away from my house on Lake Diefenbaker some guy has caught two world record fish there; lake trout (43.6pounds) and Burbot (25pounds) Even the smallest of predators like walleye grow to quite big sizes. not to mention how hard some others are too catch like mooneye and goldeye. For now i'll stick with yellow perch haha
 
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Northern Pike;4924080;4924080 said:
I remember on a fishing trip to Canada I once had alls we could catch was lake trout and pike, and 15 pound pike was very common up there.
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If I could afford a 2,500 gallon tank and a giant chiller I would love to have some Arctic grayling, cool looking and territorial.
 
The issue with a lot of our native fish like Walleye, pike, etc is that even room temp aquariums are too warm.
 
Kept a lot of Canadian natives in room temp water just fine. Collect in late spring/summer, if they survive the transportation they'll be fine. Trout from hatcheries seem to be hardier and do fine at room temp. Only fish I've had problem with at room temp are rainbow smelt and burbot. Even notoriously delicate species like emerald shiners have done fine for me at room temp. I'm sure I could have success with smelt if I could collect them at some time other than early to mid spring when there's still frost at night.

Alaskan blackfish are not available as far as I know, due to viral problems they are not allowed to be taken out of Alaska. Shame cause they would appear to be interesting and hardy captives. The shallow pools they inhabit warm up quite a bit in the summertime so they would appear to be quite temperature tolerant. Closest thug we have are mudminnows, they're awesome themselves.
 
I would love to have 3-4 yellow perch. I was thinking about it for the last 2 years. I Just don't want to take them out of a lake.
 
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