Agreed, but some na natives will adapt well to tropical temps so you can keep them with your other fish, like warmouth, gar, bowfin, pygmy sunnies, and a few more.Miles said:
keeping native bluehgill or.........
- Thread starter toxicfish
- Start date
i usually catch a bunch o baby blugill and sunnies about 1/4-1/2 " put them in a 5 gal bucket. keep them in my room over night next to my 29 gal. the in the morning i put them in it, the tank stays at 75 deg. F. naturally but has a heater so it does not drop below 72 deg. , just in case. i let the bluegill and sunnies grow to about 2" to the point where i can see exactly what is what , and the colors start to develop. i pick about 3-4 of them i want, then either let the rest go were i got them or go catfishin. when they get about 5" they go in with my oscar in the 75 gal. Ive done this about 5 times, only the first 2 were in a ten gal, then put into the 29. that was b-4 i got my 75....
p.s. to make them feel even more comfortable, float plastic plants at the top. they like to hide in thses more than in rocksa and rooted plants, or burried plastics. i would also recomend plastic plants 'cause the BG like to "garden". theye tear up everything IMO.
p.s. to make them feel even more comfortable, float plastic plants at the top. they like to hide in thses more than in rocksa and rooted plants, or burried plastics. i would also recomend plastic plants 'cause the BG like to "garden". theye tear up everything IMO.
i usually catch a bunch o baby blugill and sunnies about 1/4-1/2 " put them in a 5 gal bucket. keep them in my room over night next to my 29 gal. the in the morning i put them in it, the tank stays at 75 deg. F. naturally but has a heater so it does not drop below 72 deg. , just in case. i let the bluegill and sunnies grow to about 2" to the point where i can see exactly what is what , and the colors start to develop. i pick about 3-4 of them i want, then either let the rest go were i got them or go catfishin. when they get about 5" they go in with my oscar in the 75 gal. Ive done this about 5 times, only the first 2 were in a ten gal, then put into the 29 
. that was b-4 i got my 75.... 
p.s. to make them feel even more comfortable, float plastic plants at the top. they like to hide in thses more than in rocksa and rooted plants, or burried plastics. i would also recomend plastic plants 'cause the BG like to "garden"
. theye tear up everything IMO.
btw:
TO NATIVE KEEPING 
. that was b-4 i got my 75.... p.s. to make them feel even more comfortable, float plastic plants at the top. they like to hide in thses more than in rocksa and rooted plants, or burried plastics. i would also recomend plastic plants 'cause the BG like to "garden"
. theye tear up everything IMO.btw:
TO NATIVE KEEPING I thought you had to run a chiller on the tank in the summer? Anybody have any pics of set ups with these fish in them?
Hope you don't need a chiller. The thousands of bluegills in the 5 acre pond at my house won't survive these Florida temps where the water is in the high 80s... and I hope those poor 'gills in the Springs down the road a few miles aren't gonna die in that water that stays at 72 year round...
Blackwater said:
if u have A/c or keep your house at livable temps the tank and fish will be fine, if your really worried about it, set up a canister filtet nd run it through a frezer to keep the water cooler. when i was little my nieghbor kept small stream trout in his 100 gal. by running the filter through a small freezer set up next to his tank. he also kept the frozen food in the same freezer, so it wasnt really wasted space.
Try salt treatment as part of your acclimatazation process. warmer water tends to bring it on and many smaller ponds that contain large nuumbers of fish also contain ick, out there they can avoid most of the larvae but in a tank they can't.
