How Many Creek Chubs

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A quick answer would be appreciated as I'm going collecting in a few hours. What would be the best number of creek chubs to put in my 30 long (36" x 12" x 16") with a single female green sunfish (currently 2.5") as a tankmate. Yes I'm fully aware that creek chubs could potentially outgrow this tank and as soon as they hit 6-7" or so I'll put them in my 75 gallon if needed. For now I'm more concerned about bioload and territorial aggression between the sunnie and the chubs so I don't want to add to many but I want to add enough so the chubs don't get stressed (I had 1 creek chub in there at one point and it didn't end well since it got stressed and died). The filtration is a sponge filter rated for a 50 gallon and I do 10 gallon (1/3) water changes every week. So how many chubs?
 
Unless you have an obscenely mellow sunnie, its going to pester the daylights out of your chubs.

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bixrd said:
Unless you have an obscenely mellow sunnie, its going to pester the daylights out of your chubs.

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Maybe but she needs tankmates so she can feel secure. Couldn't even get her to eat this morning. So as of now I would classify her as obscenely mellow.
 
Acclimated them and they're currently in my 30 long with the sunfish. Feeling ballsy so I skipped qt, they came from a very healthy area. Got 4 chubs around 5".image.jpg

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Doing well. I went to feed my sunfish and she didn't eat so the chubs are actually on brine shrimp already. They're all 4 schooling but the sunfish has taken a few more bites at them. Nothing to bad though.
 
Well this is surprising. Chubs are already voraciously eating flake! Not only that but they're all recklessly aggressively handfeeding! So they'll pretty much eat anything and trust me to handfeed in 24 hours: best fish ever!!! Sadly the sunfish still won't eat anything since the addition of the chubs.
 
Nice I'm trying hard to get ahold of some big creek chubs to go with my brook trout in a 180 gallon. However with the size your tank is, I run a sponge filter rated for I think 150 gallons on my 40b and a marineland 400 bio wheel. The bio wheel is new so the sponge filter does the job with ammonia etc. I'd watch water parameters since I'm kinda skeptical about sponge filters lol but idk they seem to be doing fine, preferably if add more current with them but I guess that's just me I guess. Looks cool!
Ps get rid of that Sunnie lol who cares about them they're basically cichlids hahaha :p


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crenicichla444 said:
Nice I'm trying hard to get ahold of some big creek chubs to go with my brook trout in a 180 gallon. However with the size your tank is, I run a sponge filter rated for I think 150 gallons on my 40b and a marineland 400 bio wheel. The bio wheel is new so the sponge filter does the job with ammonia etc. I'd watch water parameters since I'm kinda skeptical about sponge filters lol but idk they seem to be doing fine, preferably if add more current with them but I guess that's just me I guess. Looks cool!
Ps get rid of that Sunnie lol who cares about them they're basically cichlids hahaha :p


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Yeah I know, I might add another filter soon. I'll be doing 50% changes weekly if needed. I got the chubs so the sunfish would be calmer and it's working actually. Can't agree with you on the last thing though, I hate cichlids but I love sunfish :)
 
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