Update on CSBG

I've been raising bluegill in a "Cecil Envy" flow-through tank that holds 450 gallons of water.

These fish are F-5's that are age-1 and 76 weeks old. Soon they will have a birthday and will be age-2's.

The average length is 203 mm.

The average weight is 255 grams.

This yields a Wr of 134.

I weighed and measured 10 of the 90 fish in the tank.

These fish were harvested from a lined pond in mid-October and took about 5 weeks of retraining to return to pelleted feed.

The sequence was as follows..

1. Introduction of night crawler pieces.
2. Introduction of krill shrimp.
3. Introduction of "Bill Cody" style softened pellets
4. Introduction of floating pellets.

The Wr's temporarily settled back into the 120's during the feed training exercise.

I was moderately surprised that these fish took a while to retrain. I figured that since they were in indoor tanks last winter that they would quickly figure out the floating pellet concept. As it turns out they were pretty skittish for a few weeks while they got used to their new surroundings.


Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.