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