Im not sure if they aRe considered endangered. Ive been on guided trips on the Mississippi to catch these before. You use a short stout rod similiar to a boat rod in SW fishing and a huge "hook" that is actually a bunch of smaller hooks put together and you drop it down in the water and jerk it up and down untill you snag one and you reel it in!
wth is this?
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My first reply was going to be
"the coolest thing Ive ever seen get me one!!!"
but the adult size is a little out of my league just yet
"the coolest thing Ive ever seen get me one!!!"
but the adult size is a little out of my league just yet
They are endangered but, not illegal to buy and maintain in aquaria (with the exception of a few states). Paddlefish are aquacultured (farmed) for stocking. The farms that produce paddlefish for stocking under government contracts may also sell them for private stocking after govt quotas have been met. Many become available for sales in pet shops when egg collection numbers have been exceptionally successful.
they sound neat... but very hard to feed. a 5 foot long filer feeder would need to eat incredible amounts of small food every day.Oddball;596783; said:
They're filter feeders that also eat large organisms. I had 4 15" polydons that ate rosies with no problem whatsoever. They even learned to take FD krill and large floating sticks/pellets by flipping upside down and skimming the water's surface.
While they can be raised, for a time, in captivity, failures are frequent when keeping these fish in any flat sided aquarium. These are cartilaginous fish that injure easily from hitting a tank side. I had good success in keeping them in round slope-walled tanks. They tended to ride the currents around the walls instead of running headlong into them
