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Anthony Nolet

Anthony Nolet

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When fishing this morning and caught my first crappie ever! Then the very next cast caught another one! They have huge mouths lol. I caught 4 then had a bigger one that got off at the surface of the water like what always happens. But then my dad caught 2 and I caught a few more. We ended up keeping 5 that are all about 5-6". Now they're in a tank with some yellow perch from a different reservior and a green sunfish. The green is showing them who's boss but nothing too violent haha in not worried at this point with aggression. I'll post pictures later on today
 
Now the real challenge getting them to eat! In my experience very finicky wouldn't eat frozen/flake/pellet at all. Fed exclusively on live minnows. Then again the ones I've pulled out of my pond to raise in aquarium were more like 1-2" and a mix of white and black. Good luck!
 
I hope your tank is very large, because all those fish will grow to be very large and aggressive.

As stated above, perch can be problem feeders... they want live feeder fish, but because they tend to be more of a lurking predator than a roving predator (like a crappie or a sunfish) they often don't get to feed before their tankmates clean the place up.

Some people use leeches to fish for walleye, and being the next smallest perch in the region, it's at least somewhat plausible that yellow perch might also feed in invertebrates, but they seem to prefer to feed on live shiners.

Good luck! I hope there will be pictures soon. :D
 
They like crawdads already haha they just don't know how to go about eating them, they tried but the crawdads shoot off but if they went awhile without food they would get them. They eat worms fish and bloodworms for now. If they never eat pellets then it's not a huge deal to me. Crawdads and mosquitoe fish in the summer and worms and minnows in the summer. Same plan for crappie.
 
Bottomfeeder said:
As stated above, perch can be problem feeders... they want live feeder fish, but because they tend to be more of a lurking predator than a roving predator (like a crappie or a sunfish) they often don't get to feed before their tankmates clean the place up.

Some people use leeches to fish for walleye, and being the next smallest perch in the region, it's at least somewhat plausible that yellow perch might also feed in invertebrates, but they seem to prefer to feed on live shiners.
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Not sure if you meant crappie being problem feeders instead of perch. My experience has been that crappie tend to eat live only but perch are hogs in the aquarium. I have a hard time getting enough food for the other fish in the aquarium other than perch because they quickly eat anything I throw in. My two perch greedily eat shrimp, worms, and sinking carnivore pellets.
 
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Day 5 and the still won't eat bloodworms. Super skittish fish so far but what do you expect for day 5 lol. They do freak out the perch when they freak out though so the whole tank pretty much freaks out minus the green sunfish. I'll try earthworms and if that doesn't work I'll get them some fish.
 
I wouldn't worry yet. I've had some fish go 3.5 months without eating before, mind you it was a catfish but still. Keep trying bloodworms and earthworms and they'll eat eventually.
 
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