Also a fun fact if u didn’t know when the bluegill are stressed they turn transparent you can see through them and see the organs it’s kinda weird and cool
Wild caught bluegill pumpkin seed and yellow bullhead
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Sorry if I’m being annoying but I got another baby from the River I believe it is a bluegill/pumpkinseed hybrid am I right? ( I caught him in a dip net) also catfish, hybrid and bluegill are eating frozen tilapia very well
That's a green sunfish. You have too many fish for a 29. If anything I would keep it to just the green sunfish.
Is the green sunfish rare like is mine rare? Or any of the ones I have and I don’t think it’s overstocked I also added some live plants!! Some Lillie pads and aquatic plants
None of the fish you have are rare. I catch hundreds of green sunfish a year and I've probably caught thousands of bluegill over my lifetime. I coincidentally caught a green sunfish pumpkinseed hybrid yesterday. The green sunfish is the only fish that will somewhat fit in your 29 long term ish but will likely still need an upgrade. Bluegill get up to 15", the hybrid probably has the potential to get a foot or more. Purebred pumpkinseeds get about 16" and green sunfish get around 10". Though none of them will likely reach this in a 29 as stunting will kill them before they get there. I do not care what you think, it is overstocked. If you want my help I would suggest actually listening to my advice. This is like trying to keep 3 german shepherds, a rottweiler, and a bulldog in a 10x10 room. Plants will not save this stocking, and the conditions of the tank will quickly get worse than the conditions they came from.
ok ok I’m sorry I guess I’ll have to set up the 55g soon (29 gallon is NOT long term it is simply a grow out to get them eating and the filter better cycled and see how they adjust in captivity, the 55g will still not be perm but long term till they grow enough to put them in my future 125 then a pool pond, they may not be rare but they sure are pretty and have great personalities, i would move them to the 55g sooner but I live with my parents and they don’t really like that I have a few tanks as I have said, I am very grateful for your help and I apologize for any thing I did to for you to think the opposite)
I apologize i only started this hobby almost a year ago so I am still learning
You're fine. For the sake of your fish, I would rehome everything but the green sunfish. A 55 will not be enough for all of them, though you may be able to get away with keeping the catfish once you get the 55 given you keep up with waterchanges.
I have bigger tanks i just don’t want to put them in there because they might have a disease so any medication I can use to treat them?
I would also set up the 55 rn but my mother needs the stand because the stand she’s using for her baby koi’s is actually a table stand so she wants to set that back up and use the stand for the 55 I want to use and I also don’t have a spot in my house for it
