How many sunfish should I stock in my tank?

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Oh and just purely out of curiosity, could I ever keep a single pair of bluegills in a 75 for life? Because they're all over the place where I live but I've heard around that they might grow too large for a 75 but again I've heard that the ones here in mass would rarely grow a large as southern populations


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I think you should do smaller sunnies, like orange spots. They get more colorful and get smaller than bluegill. You could keep 3 ospots for every bluegill.
 
warmouth said:
How big is your pond and what are you feeding them? http://eet.env.duth.gr/Docs/Nestos_ws1/2_6.pdf {Sunfish are particularly prone to “stunting”. Lakes that have good spawning habitat but not much food
can produce swarms of small adult sunnies that never grow larger than 4-5 inches} quote is from a zoo.
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16x11' with varying depths up to 4.5 feet. Feeding high quality pellets, shrimp/worms as treats. Not a perfect habitat but certainly not stunting them that much. Yes pumpkinseeds can reach 10" but 6" is most likely. An 8" fish would be a real score.
 
You can purchase Longear and O-spots online, a 75g is a good tank for a pair of Medium sized sunfish a big Madtom and some large shiners. The biggest and most colorfull fish you can get for a 75g. are Western Dollar and Northern Longear Sunfish, if you Get one male and Two females, a Stonecat and then put them all in with a couple steelcolor or Blacktail shiners or any of the large luxilus genus of shiners.
 
MonsterCichlids75 said:
I wish! Orange spots are really beautiful but I havnt a clue where I would get some, I've never ever caught any here in Massachusetts


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Rainbowrunner on aquabid can get some. I can give you his email if you are interested.
 
Chub_by said:
16x11' with varying depths up to 4.5 feet. Feeding high quality pellets, shrimp/worms as treats. Not a perfect habitat but certainly not stunting them that much. Yes pumpkinseeds can reach 10" but 6" is most likely. An 8" fish would be a real score.[/Q

Sounds like your feeding them well and your pond is big enough for them.....about how many are there in the pond?
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