with my new tank being set up, I will have a spare 125. I have preaching natives since my beginnings on this site and yet to start a tank. anyway If I went the harvesting route, as a local pond has steller sunfish. how long would I keep it before considering putting another fish with it. I know wild fish have there own set of diseases and immunities. In long run Id like an Oscar and sunfish in same tank with maybe a sun cat, or some bottom dwelling cat. OR would you scrap the mixing of captive bred and wild together. I have seen Sa/CA tanks with sunfish incorporated but still wanted to ask.
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Just a personal thought, and it comes with no experience whatsoever with mixing, I just don't like the look of a mixed tank. I think they look hodgepodge. I would personally either go all cichlid or all native (I lean towards the native). I love native tanks and think they look awesome, so that's the route I would take. But again, it's just my personal opinion and you do whatever you want.
Nc why, I asked a wildlife officer, about legalities of it. He gave me a dumb look and said as long as it is under creel limit. Was think 2x sun cat, Oscar and some type of sunfish in 125
I see in one post you said it wouldn't work with Long ears. I may just end up with 2 Os then
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I see in one post you said it wouldn't work with Long ears. I may just end up with 2 Os then
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because fish from different locations will handle different temps better or worse depending. you said you were going to get them from a local pond, so I'd figure that would get pretty warm so those fish will be better suited to the warmer temp. if you were grabbing the fish from a lake I'd definitely advise against it. I'd expect fish from a small pond in southern florida or texas would be well able to handle tropical temps.
if you really want to be sure, go measure the temp of the pond. the deeper you can measure, the more accurate it'll be. it's pretty warm right now, and has been for a while, so this will give you a good idea of their top temp range.
they will also live shorter lives without the cool down period of winter.
if you really want to be sure, go measure the temp of the pond. the deeper you can measure, the more accurate it'll be. it's pretty warm right now, and has been for a while, so this will give you a good idea of their top temp range.
they will also live shorter lives without the cool down period of winter.
I agree 100% I think it will work if you get Sunfish from the deep south, acclimate the Oscars and Sunnies at a median temp for both, and get sunfish that are aggressive enough to handle an Oscar (Green sunfish or Redbreast from texas, Florida, Louisiana etc)
I wouldn't put green sunfish with my Oscars, as I care for them.
I have my farm pond overrun with green sunnies, and I put two in with my red belly piranhas for food. They beat the living tar out of my RBP's, but at least taught them to take non-live tilapia chunk.
The Green Sunfish also beat the snot out of Dovi, Jaguar and Poleni well over twice their size.
I have two to three inch mean greens in with a foot long stary night, 9" pike cichlid and school of full grown 5" hybrid turquoise x red Jewel cichlids and they are still fearless!
I have had tremendous success with native Bowfin with my lemon, red and Tiger Oscars however!
Hmmmn one of the Greens I used to have killed two rescued African cichlids, but he also killed his fellow Green sunfish tankmate....so I just thought it was because the aquarium was to small (I had 3 3-5 inch fish in a 38g bowfront).