SMB or Bluegill for guppy control?

[Moontanman]

I'm looking into getting a fish to eat my guppies. I looked at many new world cichlids but my water just isn't the correct P.H. for many of them. African cichlids are totally out of the question. The guppies are mine so I am not worried at all about disease or underfed fish. I know the P.H. and water temperature of my local river and I am wondering, would a bluegill or SMB be happy in a 40-55 gallon tank with out any plants, several large rocks and a guppy or two every other day?

Oh oh oh, a Crappie would be cool! And it would be good in a 55. A blue gill would work too but a Redfin Pickerel would the bomb dude! Lots of fun to watch eat them little fish!

 

[Moontanman]

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[Dr.Octogonapus]

ummm now that someone suggested a covict i might consider that. but I think a bluegill (they are pumpkinseed hybrids I believe) would do ok in a 40, because I have never seen a huge one come out of my fishing hole.

 

[michaeljames]

sunfish, pumpkin seed if you can, these critters are so feisty and agressive with food, plus if your only feeding that much food, this fish will be perfect

 

[fishkeeper1]

yes another West Virginian
a bluegill, longear, green or pumpkinseed sunfish would all do fine in a 55

lol im scared to go near west virginia b/c of the movie wrong turn lol. if u havent seen it its the sweetest horro movie out there, a little random but whatever

 

[JD7.62]

A male longear sunfish for sure! They are BEAUTIFUL and stay small at around 6". Bluegill, bass, and crappie get too big.

 

[Sucka fo natives]

Just go for a bluegill it will eat them and there not to hard to catch.+

 

[andyjs]

ummm now that someone suggested a covict i might consider that. but I think a bluegill (they are pumpkinseed hybrids I believe) would do ok in a 40, because I have never seen a huge one come out of my fishing hole.

Bluegill aren't a hybrid of anything. There are many hybrid forms of bluegill though. I've seen green sunfishXbluegills (common for sport fishing in my area) and just yesterday I was doing an electrofishing survey for a field ich. class I'm taking and we found some bluegillXlongears. They were gorgeous. Not quite as nice as full blood longear sunfish, but they were impressive. Basically any Lepomis species can cross with any other and they pretty commonly do.