Mullet

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tonight

my camera's recharables are dead and i didnt bring the charger with me to da east coast


imma go to 711 and score some alkalines so pics tonight
 
my camera sucks

and this fish wont stop moving

but heres some pics of the freshwater mullet

and the good news is he is doing his "filter feeding" in the sand and eating sonthing cuz hes poopin......good sign i guess


i think imma just seed the sand in his tank with crushed algea wafers, flakes, and blackworms and hoepfully he'll filter it out

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I have 4 baby mullet in my sw tank. My g/f caught them in a dip net and thought they were cute so i let her keep them. Mine eat, blood worms, black worms, u can crush up flake really really fine and they eat that. They also sift through the the sand and eat alge that grows on stuff. It seems like every time i look in the tank, they are eating, they are little heffers. They love to school also, if one breaks from the school, they all go to him. Ive had mine for about a month to a month and a half, and they are doing great. IMO, i do beleive that u will love your mullet
 
maybe try algae wafers for plecos and cichlids. feeder fish, no. u need a tank canopy, mullet are jumpers. post pics because there are 2 types of Mullet in the US: White (smaller) and Striped aka Black (bigger):nilly::nilly::WHOA:srry new here just wanted 2 try the emotes out. lol
 
make sure you have a very tight fitting lid.
 
I live on the coast of NC, we call them pop-eye mullet. they eat detritus or other tiny organisms in the wild but I've raised them on tiny pellets and live black worms. hikari micro pellets after they are taking black worms.
 
I caught mullet using tiny hooks with bread rolled over the top of them, i'm a Submariner in the Royal Navy and during a boring day at work i decided i would try and catch a mullet. I lowered my bait into the water from the side of the sub and they took to it straight away, catching them was no problem at all. They eat oll of the algae thats on the side of the sub and when i caught one they were all horrible and greasy, saying that i don't think the radiation would be too good for them either, lol. Atleast if you were going to eat them they would be semi-cooked.
 
TonyWilson;2044994; said:
I caught mullet using tiny hooks with bread rolled over the top of them, i'm a Submariner in the Royal Navy and during a boring day at work i decided i would try and catch a mullet. I lowered my bait into the water from the side of the sub and they took to it straight away, catching them was no problem at all. They eat oll of the algae thats on the side of the sub and when i caught one they were all horrible and greasy, saying that i don't think the radiation would be too good for them either, lol. Atleast if you were going to eat them they would be semi-cooked.

ever seen "guest house paradiso"? :)

i bet they still aint as bad as the ones in the river mersey.

any hoo...

the mullet we have in the uk, are obviusly a different spieces. but from what the rest of the posters say, it sounds as if it has the same feeding habits.

ive seen them take bread, insects, even pop-ups. but never the one with my hook in :irked:

ive also seen them caught on ragworm, lugworm, crab ect. ive even seen them eating a salmon carcass that had been fillited. they are prodominantly surface feeders though.

it should take most floating items of food. but im guessin its a shoal fish, and will probably need a few others of its kind to feel safe, and willing to eat.

good luck by the way. rock on :headbang2
 
Wow man first this shouldn't have been moved as mullets are mostly fresh. they will not take feeders, i live down in Florida and fish a lot of Fw, they will not take anything from a hook even if its in there face, you really should release this fish, as its going to be incredibly hard to feed it. Please dont dissapoint yourself man, i dont mean to be negative but try somthing else if theres a fish not for aquariums this is one.
 
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