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Just added an adult Texas log perch to my aquarium. It had some issues initially with my longear sunfish but the sunfish got over himself after an hour. I threw in some blood worms and made everyone happy. Not sure if it ate but I'll know in a few days. Anybody else ever catch and keep them?

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Looks good. Good luck with him
 
Nice! Ive never kept them... But seeing yours might change my mind LOL!:D
 
cool. I've been considering keeping one, but I don't know if he'll go with my substrate.
an adult you say? how long is he?
 
FuriousFish said:
Nice! Ive never kept them... But seeing yours might change my mind LOL!:D
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Yeah, normally they are very delicate. So far this one has been a trooper.

Gill Blue said:
cool. I've been considering keeping one, but I don't know if he'll go with my substrate.
an adult you say? how long is he?
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What kind of substrate? They typically live in riffles with gravel/cobble stone. I've got a design to build a riffle for it to sit in but since I just spent most of my aquarium money on a bunch of driftwood/lace stone/limestone so I'll have to wait on building it.

It is around 5 or 6 inches and one of the largest I've seen. I just got back from a two day fish sampling trip ranging from Lagrange to Junction, TX and saw at least a hundred of them. This one beats most of them in size.
 
Update: The fish is acclimating very well. It hasn't been in the tank for more than 5 days and it is already an aggressive feeder. That's what I love about natives, they catch on quick. I might get a very small container of red sinking pellets and see if it will eat them.

In other news, I had at least one of my guppies have its first batch of offspring and my rams horn snail finally laid another clutch. Hopefully both sets of offspring will grow to be healthy adults.
 
oops, forgot about this thread.
I'm using stones for my substrate. my concern is that a well flipped stone will damage the tank. they're big enough to do damage and the video I've seen logperch flip stones bigger than they are. my stones are probably about the sizeish of the smaller stone to the left in your middle pic. some bigger, some smaller.
have you seen it flipping anything yet?
 
Nope, but then again I've got mostly large stuff in the tank. I'll post a pic tonight when there isn't as much glare. I think as long as they are comfy they don't try to rearrange the tank. All this one does is swim up and down the glass when hungry, otherwise it sits in the shady areas. For reference I've got sand as the substrate.
 
it's not about rearranging, although I have seen some videos where they dug the sand out from under large rocks. flipping stones is how they hunt. and my substrate will have small fish in it, so plenty of reasons to be digging in it.

check out this video, the other fish are so used to it they've learned to hang around and let the logperch do all the hard work.
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