pickerel are easy to break off live. Starve them for a week and they will begin hitting strips of tilapia or shrimp. Mine were wild caught, by me lol, and they broke off of live within 1.5 weeks.
Pickerel tank mate idea
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Well I'm going outve town at the end of this month for a week so I'll try giving it a shot then.
you got Pickerel to eat shrimp, huh? You ever wonder how FW fish know something is food that they have never seen or ate before in their life? I would have expected that to be tough, but I suppose shellfish in general may have a universal language fish can read....but still, I never caught a Channel cat on Crayfish and they will destroy shrimp in the wild. My CB Channel isn't a huge fan of shrimp or krill unless it's dried from a can
Its back up http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwusnative&1473645392 this vendor tends to know his fish has been selling natives for several years now. As James115 mentioned he is a very nice guy. I ordered fish from him couple years back and was really helpful.
yup, my grass pickerel loved the little cocktail shrimp, the tiny ones you put on salads or whatever. My channel cat will eat anything meaty that hits the water...damn things a vacuum...
I do wonder how they know but at the same time I feel like its similar to a crayfish and they run into those in the wild so I imagine its not to far of a stretch from that lol.
My Channel cat is a vacuum too, but for some reason he doesn't get frenzied by frozen/thawed Shrimp and Krill....IDK why, but if I had to guess, it would be because albinos are generally more timid and finicky as I have heard for decades the albinos have very poor eyesight, and catfish eyesight is usually not great to begin with
mines an albino too lol. all I have to do is smack the water and he's alert and at the top lol, he eats out of my hand all the time, then just bulldozes the crappie and sunfish out of the way and steals all the other food lol. I've had to resort to putting half a tilapia fillet in the water so he has his mouth full for more than 5 seconds.
How big is yours atm? I think mine is about 10", which I think is slow since he was 3" in December/January when I got him. I remember my other normal Channel growing much faster than this and by 8-10 months later I had to give him a whole HANDFUL of pellets to himself .....something is amiss, I think. He should be at least 16-18" by now, IME
