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FinHunter101

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Just purchase 8 of the Little babies today gonna put them in a 55 gal to grow out then move them to the 500gal then into a 7acre pond once they outgrow the 500gal... Their size is about 4" from the pet store what is the best thing to feed them? How much to feed them at each feeding? Also how many times a day? Ive always used blood woms or small bit of shrimp & Taliapa cut up small for my 4" redtail and 3" asian redtail cat when i first got them.... what bout Hakari sinking carniove pellets would they be able to eat that at the size. Any info would be helpful...

Thanks Kevin
 
They are not fussy eaters. If it fits in their mouth and they can swallow it, the pellets are fine. But, as with all large predators, their instinct is to grow up as quickly as possible to avoid being eaten. So, protein-rich foods usually are most recommended.
 
I am lost. You live in Georgia and have a 7 acre pond so you obviously don't heat it being impossible to do so. And in Georgia it gets cold in the winter 39F or so. This in math is:
39F+tropical fish = death. So am I missing something?


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Hondacrx2,
Yes I am not heating but at depths of 12ft on one end it will be substantly warmer than in the 4ft shallow end.. have 2 Blue Arros' @ 3ft length in the pond now for 1yr and still alive got down to 10* this year and their both still swiming anything IMO anything shallower than 6ft would be 2 cold for them yes but 12ft thats a different story deeper the water more warmer

Hondacrx2 said:
I am lost. You live in Georgia and have a 7 acre pond so you obviously don't heat it being impossible to do so. And in Georgia it gets cold in the winter 39F or so. This in math is:
39F+tropical fish = death. So am I missing something?


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FinHunter101 said:
Hondacrx2,
Yes I am not heating but at depths of 12ft on one end it will be substantly warmer than in the 4ft shallow end.. have 2 Blue Arros' @ 3ft length in the pond now for 1yr and still alive got down to 10* this year and their both still swiming anything IMO anything shallower than 6ft would be 2 cold for them yes but 12ft thats a different story deeper the water more warmer
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Never knew that 12ft deep pond would stay that warm. That's awesome! You'll have some awesome monsters in that pound then. Do you ever net any of the fish to see them or measure them?


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The ground below roughly 3-4 feet never changes its temperature year round. In GA, I'd guess it is roughly 60 F (45 F in NY, 74 F in SW FL). It would be a bit too cold for any tropical fish except that the big predators usually occupy the big, deep channels in the rivers, where the water is nothing like on the surface. When the water temp at the surface is in the 80-eis and pushing 90 F, 20-30 feet down, it is mid-to-low 70-ies = closer to the ground temp (and let's not forget Amazon is fed from Andes glaciers and the sun only warms the top water layers).

Anyway, like silver aros, blue aros are surface fish, who almost never go lower in the water column. I am much surprised they survived GA winter. I'm sure when the air temp dipped into 30F, 20F, 10F, the water temp could not have been higher than 50F-55F. Cold air and warm ground create an efficient convection in a pond cooling the whole pond regardless of the depth to roughly the same temp. The deeper the pond, the higher that temp would be though. Still, IMO you are gambling but I can be educated to consider accepting a different point of view.
 
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