redfin pickerel help

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cjacob316

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i have my eye on a redfin pickerel, but i was wondering whether or not it would be safe to keep with certain fish

right now i have a 3 inch rock bass and it is listed as a 4-6 inch pickerel, can the pickerel currently eat the bass? will the pickerel grow faster than the bass? and can a full grown 12inch redfin pickerel eat a full grown 10 inch rock bass?

i know the pickerel's mouth can open pretty wide, so i'm worried that even if the bass is larger than the pickerel's head, it will still try to eat it
 
I have kept several pickerel with many different species and sizes of fish.In my experience a 4 to 6 inch pickerel won't eat a 3 inch rock bass. And a full grown redfin pickerel can't eat a 10m inch rock bass. I had a 11 inch grass pickerel try to eat a 4 inch green sunfish and failed. It couldn't swallow the fish.So you should be ok to keep them together. On note though,if the pickerel is starving it may try to eat the rockbass.
 
any kind of catfish go well with smaller bass/ pickerel/sunfish

i currently have a 15 inch bullhead, but he tries to eat everything, even my 12 inch gar. so i'm getting rid of him

i'm worried about a sun cat getting too big, and a pictus staying too small. bullheads are the smallest native cats, but obviously they can cause some problems
 
Madtoms are the smallest native cats. With the stock you have I would suggest a Stonecat madtom.It is the largest of the madtoms.It averages 4 to 8 inches but can reach up to 12 inches. At that size it would still be to small to eat your fish and yet to big to be targeted.
 
The brown,tadpole,brindle, and freckled madtoms are native to Louisiana.
 
really? they weren't on the state's list of native fish, but it might have been a game fish list, so maybe they just aren't considered game fish

where can i find a stonecat madtom?

btw it seems that the pickerel sold, so i won't be getting one soon
 
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