INFO on bluegill or sunfish?

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and i found a permit for aquaculture. the fee for a facility permit is 10 dollars. there is another 10 fee if your a pet store. how ever it is legal for any aquaculture facility to sell all sunfish species for private stocking.

so it looks as if the fee is 10 dollars. :)
 
sostoudt;3302942; said:
and i found a permit for aquaculture. the fee for a facility permit is 10 dollars. there is another 10 fee if your a pet store. how ever it is legal for any aquaculture facility to sell all sunfish species for private stocking.

so it looks as if the fee is 10 dollars. :)
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I'm moving to VA.
 
its not all good if i want to be able to buy sunfish intending to sell or sell them to other sellers. its a much more pricey fee of $12.50


edit: you know what dont pay attention to the last edit as the wording is confusing. anyway i think both permits allow the same thing, selling for purpose of private stocking. just one is for fish sale and propagation, and other one is for native wildlife sale and proporgation that just happens to list game fish.
 
Noto;3302960; said:
Must be nice, the fee in TN is $500!
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No kidding! I have been living in Tennessee for the last 5 years, and I thought it was in the ballpark of $500-600. That's why I mentioned it could get pricey, but it must be nice of only having a $10-12 fee....:)
 
i have 3 small bluegill about 2-3in. in length and i feed then hikari brine shrimp which they absolutely love. ive had them for about a month and theyve almost doubled in size from little minnows to just now getting that rounded shape bluegill have. Is it possible to sex them this young? Also does anyone know how to enhance their color?
 
It is not possible to sex sunfish at a glance until they are sexually mature (and it can sometimes be tricky then). Some fish mature at small sizes, so look out for changes in coloration or behavior.

Sunnies change color in response to their surroundings, as well as social cues or stress. Dark substrate and background, clear water, moderate lighting, and lots of plants, driftwood, or other cover seem to bring out their colors best.

Some sunfish just never look that bright in the tank though, and I'm afraid bluegill are the number one offenders there. I've seen some pretty bluegill outdoors, but never in a tank. Do you know if your fish are coppernoses? I've never seen them kept in tanks, so they may not be as drab as northern 'gills.
 
i live on the St. Johns river here in St. Augustine, FL near Jacksonville and we catch all kinds of bream here big purple heads, red bellies, shellcrackers and generic panfish including coppernoses the 3 i have in my tank now are just too small to really see what they will grow up to be.

i also like to feed them grass shrimp which we catch in the eel grass in the shallow water by our dock and will eventually be making their diet entirely shrimp (grass shrimp and commercial bait bought) when they are more mature. I have kept bluegill before and this diet keeps em going strong! i might try a little spirulina food to help enhance their color also.
 
I feed my greenies crickets, earthworms,bloodworms and of course hikari fish pellets they are both getting to big for my 55 (yes I upgrades) so I will be upgrading again.
 
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