Grass Pickerel?
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If They vote wrong you should feed them to the fishies. lol.Thomas_Hung said:
Pikerel of any type are great fish that will stalk feeders through the plants in your tank. Bowfins often stake out an area that is THEIRS and defend it. In louisiana there was a river that had a lot of fishing holes with clay banks where catfish lived in holes, we would rile out the cats by poking around with a wooden boat paddle. One time we disturbed a large bowfin who chomped on the paddle tip hard enough to leave deep scratches and slivers as well as a few teeth embedded inthe wood.
Like live ones but they don't eat them so it shouldn't matter, elodea is good and cheap, I also like dwarf pond lilies and pygmy japanese lotus and long leaf pond weed because they give shade and cover but have only narrow stems with floating leaves.
guppy said:
Who sells cheap plants online? Because from what i've seen at the LFS around here, plants might be hard to come by.
You might want to wait for the colder months of the year to make your order. I tried ordering redfin pickerel over the internet from these guys ( http://www.aquaculturestore.com/index.html ) and they were dead in the box. I told the guy about it and he sent another pair, only to have them show up dead in the box again. I mean, he put icepacks in with the box, and sent them over night, but they still got too hot and died. These are cool water species, and from what I've read aren't supposed to be kept above 75 degrees.
mikehawk said:
Thanks, yea I wasnt planning on ordering until then anyway, gotta get a tank setup first
Try your local garden shops first, I've seen better deals than at lfs, I have never bought on line. Since it will be an unheated tank you might want local plants, that is how I get long leaf pond weed. I slowly acclimate it for tropical use. I also damn near kill it by soaking it in a solution of 2 tablespoons of table salt per gallon of water for 10 minutes then a fw rinse followed by a night in tap water and repeated the next day, on the third day it gets rinsed again and added to the tank, I have never gotten an unwanted invader that way but I have killed a few of the more delicate plants. Bamboo cuttings seem to work also.
