I've got some Paddlefish!
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BTW, i understand they are very good to eat but are hard to dress out because they are mostly fat. After you trim away the fat and cartilage you end up with maybe 25% meat. Sturgeon are also very good eating, i like fish to keep and fish to eat, usually not the same fish, lol!
Foxlarocks;4213048; said:
The eating is kinda strange, i have my doubts about them being aggressive enough as feeders to ever be in anything but a species tank. You on NANFA too? NANFA is a great place to find info, not to mention specimens, on or about most of the fish we want to keep. Everyone here that is interested in North American native fishes should join NANFA, you get the web site, the magazine, and lots of camaraderie. Going collecting with a bunch of people who share your interest in native fish is a great time like no other!
Foxlarocks;4213084; said:
Good to hear, if there is anything you need from the group let me know and I'll try and find someone to help you with it. What Native Fishes are most interested in? I like sturgeon and catfish and silversides. (and sunfish, darters, suckers, ect...)
Day five of paddlefish! I cleaned out all the uneaten pellets this morning, i need to figure out how few pellets i can get by with so i don't have so many left over the next morning. The paddlefish only feed on floating pellets and only after lights out. All the remaining paddlefish are doing well, very nice fish.
Day 7 of the great paddlefish experiment!
I woke up this morning to find a dead fish, that leaves 7 of these interesting fish left.
So far they seem to be doing better than I expected, they eat quite well but i think a smaller pellet will be taken better.
The fish that died was one of the fish that arrived on it's back in the bag, it had never completely recovered so i wasn't surprised when I found it dead this morning.
These fish are nasty as any large fish can be. I rate them with Koi as producing lots of waste, i am so glad I used an established bio filter in this tank. i am quite sure they would have all died of ammonia and nitrites by now if not for that.
Making sure they eat means over feeding and lots of left over food and larges balls of excrement. They are very interesting to watch swim, they use their paddle for stabilization as much as finding food i think.
I will keep up with these fish in this thread as long as I have them. No real personality traits have turned up yet, they seem totally oblivious to what goes on around them. they don't run from a net or my hands when I am cleaning the aquarium.
Any questions you would like to ask let me know and I'll try to answer them.
It would be nice to be able to train them to eat from a feeder ring, that might be the next direction i go as time passes.
I woke up this morning to find a dead fish, that leaves 7 of these interesting fish left.
So far they seem to be doing better than I expected, they eat quite well but i think a smaller pellet will be taken better.
The fish that died was one of the fish that arrived on it's back in the bag, it had never completely recovered so i wasn't surprised when I found it dead this morning.
These fish are nasty as any large fish can be. I rate them with Koi as producing lots of waste, i am so glad I used an established bio filter in this tank. i am quite sure they would have all died of ammonia and nitrites by now if not for that.
Making sure they eat means over feeding and lots of left over food and larges balls of excrement. They are very interesting to watch swim, they use their paddle for stabilization as much as finding food i think.
I will keep up with these fish in this thread as long as I have them. No real personality traits have turned up yet, they seem totally oblivious to what goes on around them. they don't run from a net or my hands when I am cleaning the aquarium.
Any questions you would like to ask let me know and I'll try to answer them.
It would be nice to be able to train them to eat from a feeder ring, that might be the next direction i go as time passes.
