I kept a 6" black crappie outside this summer in a patio pond until it got a serious infection (while I was on vacation) and eventually died. \:\(

I caught the fish out of a local lake.

Anyway I could get it to eat grasshoppers, crickets, and rosy red fathead minnows.

But I tried to get it to eat Tetra Carnivorous Fish Pellets with 47% protein.

It would not touch them.

Does anyone know if crappie eat pelleted feed?

I've gotten largemouth and smallmouth bass to eat it.

And my two Florida gar love it.

Thanks

Chris