Rainbow trout are most finicky, they need well oxygenated moving cold clean clear water to thrive. I know rainbow trouts are popular fish but buying a pet rainbow trout is impossible. Fish and Chips super healthy dog food recipe utilizes all natural rainbow trout and sweet potato as its primary ingredients.
Pet Rainbow Trout
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I read on a hatchery website rainbow's preferred temp is 21C. In 3 years they are expected to be 4.5 kilos in 3 years, steelhead are expected to be 10, so in 3 years a rainbow should be 2 pounds, plus they are more hardy then other trout, so if you want to keep a trout in a tank this would be the easiest, not that it would be easy.
a friend of mine kept a few in his pond. they all jumped out within a month (probably because poor 02). they were almost impossible to see and they ate most of his goldfish.
if you're going to keep trout to see them, keep them in a large tank or get golden rainbows. cabella's in hamburg PA has an enormous indoor pond full of huge golden rainbow trout. i bet if you called them they might be able to put you in touch with whoever setup or maintains their fish.
if you're going to keep trout to see them, keep them in a large tank or get golden rainbows. cabella's in hamburg PA has an enormous indoor pond full of huge golden rainbow trout. i bet if you called them they might be able to put you in touch with whoever setup or maintains their fish.
We have a local pond who has a kids fishing tourney every year and they stock the pond full of rainbow trout. My son (4) and I caught two about 10" long and brought them home. We had a 180g native tank setup with some sunfish, crayfish, and blue gill. Filtration was a sump wet/dry with mag 24 return pump water movement was aided by two 350gph power heads. We had a 29 gallon under the tank and kept minnows in would just throw net fulls into the main tank and all fish thrived for about 6 months till I sold the tank. I released the fish back into the pond where they were caught in which I later found out DNR wasn't thrilled about. Water temp was pretty consistently in the lower to mid 70's. Substrate was pool filter sand and had a good amount of limestone in the bottom half of the tank for the smaller fish to hide.
