Good solo fish for a 75?
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Ok people, he said NATIVE! I'm going with the same thing I was on NANFA, a sauger (growout) and a bullhead. That will work OF you can upgrade in a while since sauger get pretty large but don't tell me it wouldn't look awesome, but don't do it unless you are SURE you can upgrade to something like a 180.
If you can't upgrade then maybe a rock bass....in my opinion a 75 would be good for 3 medium sized natives instead of one giant one but it's your tank so do whatever you want that will work with your setup and future setup. I think a rock bass, bluegill, and a yellow bullhead would look cool.
If you can't upgrade then maybe a rock bass....in my opinion a 75 would be good for 3 medium sized natives instead of one giant one but it's your tank so do whatever you want that will work with your setup and future setup. I think a rock bass, bluegill, and a yellow bullhead would look cool.
^ I would forget about sauger, they are horrible display fish. Never moves during day or while the light is on. Prefers feeding under the dark time and live foods only. And they prefer to hides and just stay there till the dark. A 75gal may not be ideal for a bullhead, depends on what species but it will outgrew the 75gal eventually. So are rock bass, they get larger than sunfish species so I don't think a 75gal is ideal for a rock bass either.
Yeah, I think I said that because it was the morning I was sick and still half asleep, looking back I wouldn't do a sauger especially after hearing what MN said. Maybe....a grass pickerel. A fish I'd love to have that gets 12-15" average (which is still pretty big but if it stays in the lower end it should be fine) is a white bass. Not a fish people keep very often or ever but it's one of my top 5 dream fish (probably getting one for my future 180, can't wait
). But I've never kept natives and am getting my first native tank (that's mine personally, I helped out with one at my local bait shop that's up in the summer, had a creek chub few bluegill rock bass and an LMB, overstocked but it was only for the summer) in a few months so for now I'd listen to people like MN who have more experience than I.Maybe you should give a list of what you don't like. This way it will cut down on unwanted suggestions.
get a black or large mouth bass then or perhaps a sun fish, not a blue gill. both natives, as for I do not like oscars?
an LMB or SMB need bigger than a 75. A single SMB needs at least a 125, preferably bigger and a single LMB needs at least a 150 to itself. Even then, they both may outgrow those tanks it just depends in the individual fish.
