When your tank volume is turned over 15+ times an hour,weekly/bi-weekly waterchanges,water parameter monitoring and the like,is how you can safley (sic) house that many sunnies in a 90.................48x18x24 allows for a cool schooling effect when they do get that size,your shooting for getting as close to lake size for 'em because there wild huh? Well any captive held-wild born fish will always be in an undersized body of water,unless you gut your house and turn it into a 10,000 gallon Behemoth. Back to the point,i have gone over traditional numbers in terms of stocking,my water chem never goes ape,they flourish and eat 24/7,they show NO,i mean NO signs of not liking to be in these numbers.......but not everyone can overcalculate and over filter,so beware,but i think a big tank with 2-4 ish is so bare looking!!!
Friends/future feeders for my bluegill
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I guess I'm a bit of a pessimist, but I don't even expect pet store fish to all live. mine are young and in a different environment. they came from a farm stock pond with some freakish looking brownish red colored algae to a 55 gal clear tank. In their favor is no predation and stable tank temp. But they went from eating, for what I can guess, insect larva and plant organisms to eating flake food with once a week dried blood worms pieces.
They are doing good so far, one is friendly or suggestive, well he associates me with food any way. I call him or her George, he's the biggest about 1 1/4, tries to attack the gravel cleaner, for the stuff getting sucked up. only thing is I don't know if it's too much current or just the way the fake plants are set up, but they all stay on the side of the tank with the smaller filter. I have a regent 30/60 on one side and 5/15 (I think) on the other.
Still haven't made it too the pet store for now friends/future food, I read gold fish are bad for fish health. Is the same true with the rosie reds or are they different? Oh will a fish over eat on live food like they do with flakes?
They are doing good so far, one is friendly or suggestive, well he associates me with food any way. I call him or her George, he's the biggest about 1 1/4, tries to attack the gravel cleaner, for the stuff getting sucked up. only thing is I don't know if it's too much current or just the way the fake plants are set up, but they all stay on the side of the tank with the smaller filter. I have a regent 30/60 on one side and 5/15 (I think) on the other.
Still haven't made it too the pet store for now friends/future food, I read gold fish are bad for fish health. Is the same true with the rosie reds or are they different? Oh will a fish over eat on live food like they do with flakes?
Rosies are still not very good BUT they are not as bad as goldfish. Gold fish are kept in water with VERY high concentrations of copper. If you quarantine rosies or goldfish for a while (I quarantine my rosies for about 2 weeks but I would do goldfish for atleast a month) then they are perfectly safe. I feed my pickerel nothing but rosies as I cannot get him to eat anything else
. Good luck with your bluegill and I would love to see some pictures.
Chad
. Good luck with your bluegill and I would love to see some pictures.Chad
I up loaded a few pics, my camera isn't good so the quality isn't great. 
It didn't plan this way, but best place for my tank was under my fishing rods 
Nice fish...I have some bluegills that were that color when they were babies and now they are all black and blue. They are pretty fish. Good luck with yours. Oh and I would put something over that filter intake in the first pics....you don't want your babies being filleted
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Chad
.Chad
well it hit me this morning as i'm feeding my 20gal tank, platies do well, but are they toxic or anything?
I like the lok-rocks in your 20 gal,im'm making a cave for my Crenicichla right now with those penn-plax CLASSICS!!!!!!!!
