New Chain Pickerel!
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blurock said:Keep in mind that even the grass and redfins can get over 12" and if your 75 a long instead of a wide (it's 12" wide instead of 18") because these fish are not as flexible as many others, they will have a hard time turning around at maturity in a tank that is as wide or smaller than they are long.
If the 75 is a wide, it will be perfect for a grass or redfin pickerel for life.
Before you get one though, also consider that there are very few tankmates for a pickerel, so be sure you will really like the fish, cause it's most likely all you will see in the tank. Anything smaller and the pickerel will eat it, anything larger, and it will likely bully the pickerel which is a ambush predetor. (They don't move a whole lot when not feeding)
And you will most likely be feeding live all the time, as I have only heard a few remarks of people pellet training theirs.
+1
If you're looking for an cichlid-like active aggressive predatory native, pickerel are not for you. Big-mouthed centrarchids like green sunfish or rock bass are probably more up your alley.
no im looking for a cool pike , can i put the green sunfish with them or can i put like a bichir or something else with the grass pickerel, like an aggressive tank but not territory agression just predators
As Blurock said, there aren't many species you can keep with a pickerel. I've had good luck keeping a warmouth with mine. Green sunfish are not good tankmates; they are too active, and will stress the pickerel out as well as outcompete it for food. You need other low-key fish. Bichirs might work, I haven't tried them together.
i guess i just will research more because i need tank mates , now what about the mudminnows are they fierce
good looking Noto, yo what would you prefer in a 75 gallon a group of mudminnows or a group of grass or red fin pickerel. and if you chose the mud minnows do they shoal or independent, also can mudminnows have tankmates since they hit prey hard
I have both mudminnows and pickerel. I would say the mudminnows are more entertaining, and they are perfectly compatible with fish similar in size to them. I have not noticed them shoaling. Mine are kept with small sunfish, darters, madtoms, and several species of minnows. My pickerel is in a 75 with a warmouth; they are both very lazy fish except when fed.
From the sound of what you're looking for caribemob, pickerel really aren't it. Sounds like Mudminnows would be more up your alley.
As for pickerel tankmates, as Noto has said, warmmouth are a possibility, I havn't tried it though. This summer when I get out fishing more, I'm going to try a sculpin or two since they keep to the bottom. If you can find something not too active that will stick to the bottom it could be worth a try as pickerel tend to stay in the upper water column (though not all the time, but they do tend to stick around veggitation)
You could try ploy's, water params are probably a bit different though, and all the polys ive had have been rather pushy, but one poly with one pickerel probably wouldn't bother eatchother in a 75... there would be enough territory.
Raphael catfish or Eclipse cats could work... you could try a madtom too, but since they dont get very big, the pickerel would probably end up eating it.
As for pickerel tankmates, as Noto has said, warmmouth are a possibility, I havn't tried it though. This summer when I get out fishing more, I'm going to try a sculpin or two since they keep to the bottom. If you can find something not too active that will stick to the bottom it could be worth a try as pickerel tend to stay in the upper water column (though not all the time, but they do tend to stick around veggitation)
You could try ploy's, water params are probably a bit different though, and all the polys ive had have been rather pushy, but one poly with one pickerel probably wouldn't bother eatchother in a 75... there would be enough territory.
Raphael catfish or Eclipse cats could work... you could try a madtom too, but since they dont get very big, the pickerel would probably end up eating it.
