Do yellow perch like to be alone or in groups? I was thinking about having 3-4 in a tank with my 2 other fish.
Yellow perch
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Unless 1-2 would be fine, I don't know maybe 2-3 it's too early to figure it out but I'm dying waiting for summer haha
I'd go 5-6. IME they're not that hardy but tend to be healthier in larger numbers. When one of the ones in my old trio died from a swim bladder infection, the other two soon followed due to stress of not being in a school.
I have 2 growing out right now, and ya get 4-5 of them. These two are active and healthy but I feel like they stress themselves out quite a bit sometimes, probably due to not schooling. They have however adopted a black crappie as a 3rd wheel and seem to be doing better.
Having fished for nearly fifty years I would say the smaller they are the stronger their need for schooling. As an example, just this last Saturday I was ice fishing and ran into a bunch of little perch, from three to four inches. Could`nt get to the gills because there were soooooo many pesky little perch.
easily. Keep in mind and I'm only saying this because it hasn't been mentioned that perch do get decently large.
a school of that size should probably go in a 300+ or pond. thats just my opinion I'm sure there will be someone arguing the point lol.
They only get 8-10" (12" if you're lucky) in captivity, it'd take years to get bigger. A 125 would last just a school of perch for a while.
that, to me, is a larger fish of the native variety haha. ehh...I don't know I just feel like thats a cramped space for perch ya know...