Native Garage Tank idea

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I will soon have an extra 55 ga, and would love to do a native setup, in the garage to make the tailgating (I live quite close to the bills stadium) there a bit more unique. I'm thinking this for the stock

-small group (3-5) redfin pickerel
-small gorup (3-5) sunfish
-a single bullhead catfish

can this be kept in an insulated (but unheated) garage for the winter? I would of course be adding a heater for the colder months to keep the water from freezing, but is it simply too big of a risk? could the sheer coldness crack the glass? it gets in the negatives at worst around here

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The water would get too cold and would feeeze for sure without a heater. Id put a couple electric area heaters in there to keep the temp atleast in the 50s.

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I'm more concerned about the bullhead in a 55gal. A 55gal is too small for an adult bullhead of any species.
 
dropping the bullhead then, someone told me it would work fine in a 55, but that someone also is probably just trying to sell more fish.

I could also run a space heater by it, so it the outside of it doesn't truly get as cold as the rest of the garage, and heaters inside. There any smaller native cats? I don't think there are but I've seen and heard of many new fish on here

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ah thank you, will probably add a small group of checkered toms too. I was surprised to see a catfish specie I didn't know of that lives around here, but they're too small for me to ever have targeted them for fishing haha. thanks again for the advice guys, any special filtration for this or would what I usually use (appropriate sized aquaclear HOB) work out? I plan on sanitizing driftwood and rocks collected from the shore of lake erie for the decor, along w/ a thin layer of sand for the catfish so they don't scrape their bellies

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Are you tailgating at the stadium or your garage? If it's at the stadium you might need to being a generator. It gets cold. If it's your garage you aren't tailgating. You are drinking in your garage.
 
BuffaloPolypteridae said:
I will soon have an extra 55 ga, and would love to do a native setup, in the garage to make the tailgating (I live quite close to the bills stadium) there a bit more unique. I'm thinking this for the stock

-small group (3-5) redfin pickerel
-small gorup (3-5) sunfish
-a single bullhead catfish

can this be kept in an insulated (but unheated) garage for the winter? I would of course be adding a heater for the colder months to keep the water from freezing, but is it simply too big of a risk? could the sheer coldness crack the glass? it gets in the negatives at worst around here

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I like Pickeral and I love Lepomis Sunfish, but I wouldn't put them together, they are natural enemies and Ive heard of people having problems with that combo before.
 
Cu455 said:
Are you tailgating at the stadium or your garage? If it's at the stadium you might need to being a generator. It gets cold. If it's your garage you aren't tailgating. You are drinking in your garage.
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My garage might as well be in the stadium. You could spit into the parking lot. My whole yard is usually one big tailgating party, I park cars and everything so it is just like an extension of the lots. we also call it tailgating because (weather permitting) we literally sit in my driveway and watch the jumbotron, if not (raining or snowing) we go in the garage and watch it on TV.


warmouth said:
I like Pickeral and I love Lepomis Sunfish, but I wouldn't put them together, they are natural enemies and Ive heard of people having problems with that combo before.
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that's why I post on here or ask people questions before I do them haha, are there any schooling natives that would go well w/ the pickerel? those will be the main display fish so I'm tailoring everything around them and the tomcats


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