Help I.D. Fish

[goestonemoa]

1 table spoon for every 1o gallons you take out is what id recomend

 

[goestonemoa]

i agree i also quarantine my feeders and only feed them the highest quality food just before i feed my knife fish

 

[Bottomfeeder]

Bluegill/Sun fish... yeas you can use salt on almost any fish excluding loaches, knifes, and spiny eels, bichirs.

Nope not a Bluegill. It's a Green Sunfish. And Bichirs have scales and therefore salt doesn't hurt them.


Sunfish love nightcrawlers, waxworms, and Guppies, FYI.

 

[Pomatomus]

Bichirs have scales and therefore salt doesn't hurt them.

I'm pretty sure that's not how that works, but you're right that bichirs won't be hurt by a little salt. Most freshwater fish won't, regardless of scales...but some that don't tolerate salt do have scales.

 

[aznkidang]

Well Guys thanks for all your help !

 

[Cookie*]

Nice fish. He should acclimate ok. Just give him feeders, worms/grubs, crickets and pellet food for a varied diet and he'll do good.

 

[aznkidang]

Nice fish. He should acclimate ok. Just give him feeders, worms/grubs, crickets and pellet food for a varied diet and he'll do good.

Umm how do I make him eat soon? He still laying on the gravel ... so I'll give him a week or what?

 

[shadowavenger77]

i have one and it will eat everything. feeders, worms, pellets, flakes. it ate on the first day after a caught it so idk.

 

[Citrinellus]

Umm how do I make him eat soon? He still laying on the gravel ... so I'll give him a week or what?

He is probably stressed, leave the lights off for a day and try not walking by the tank a lot.

 

[lujor]

THAT is a green sunfish? I have caught thousands of those things and NEVER seen one that had a protruding jaw like that. Sure it's not some weird rockbass hybrid or something? COULD be geographical dif but to me it looks like a dif species or a hybrid.