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| Hello, I go to this gigantic pond over by a local park near my home, and it's filled with fish and frogs. I've already identified the two main species of fish in this pond as stickleback and pumpkinseed sunfish (possibly pumpkinseed x bluegill) Anyway I just adore those fish.....they get the most incredible colours on their gill flap, and are just fun to watch! So I decided, as an experiment of sorts, I would see how they did in a 35 gallon fishtank. There is one medium sized one and 6 smaller ones that formed a school. So far they have been doing excellently. But seeing as these are wild fish I'm not sure how the best way to go about eeding them is....any ideas? Also does anyone know how big they get? If they start to outgrow the tank I can always move them to my grandma's outdoor pond so theres no problem there, but I'd like to keep them in this tank if possible......though my goal, ultimately, is to get a breeding pair going so I can introduce a healthy amount of babies to my grandma's pond. Well I hope some of you have an idea on how to help me! Thank-You!
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Live foods would probably be the best. You could try earthworms, but that might make your take all messy being that they eat dirt. I have heard of people cutting them up and rinsing them. That might work but then the worms might not be live food. Just remember that fish need a varied diet in order to be healthy
angelguppie
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I've had a few sunnies so far and I got them to eat flake food but they do love dried krill. Depending on their size you can use dried foods like bloodworms frozen food like brine shrimp and for larger ones use small ruby reds or feeder goldfish. From my limited experience raising them and my extensive experience fishing for them I can tell that sunfish are not picky eaters.
30 Gallon Tank
1 Pleco
1 Cobolt Blue Zebra Cichlid(Little Blue)
1 baby Cichlid, Desmoni and Bumblebee mix( I think)
1 Pictus Catfish
3 Crayfish (Lefty, Larry and Claw
3 Trapdoor Snails Gary and ?
2 Ramshorn Snails
3 Trumpet Snails
5 Gallon Hex
2 baby Clown Loaches
1 Trumpet Snail
Too many Ramshorn snails to count
5 Gallon Hex
1 male Betta Murphy
1 Trapdoor snail and many babies.
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