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Cecil the mini pond has plankton growth and can barely see the bottom, I've been grinding up aquamax and some of the Krill you've sent me and adding it twice a day. Their still pretty small and can only see them with a light at night. I figure the oldest ones hatched about 3 weeks ago, do you have info on what size they would be at different early stages of their life?
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AP, It should be similar to bluegill and I think I saw it in here: http://aquanic.org/species/documents/Sunfish_Culture.pdf
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AP,
Looks about right to me. Amazing what reduced stocking density did vs. just fertilization.
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AP, I noticed there's a little thread on pumpkinseed fry on the NANFA site here: http://forum.nanfa.org/index.php/topic/10150-pumpkinseed-fry/
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Yeah Cecil I did see that, thanks.
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No hurry and I much appreciate it.
Also make sure you keep the water as clean as possible in your fry feeding tank. If not you can start losing fry.
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Cecil I have a 10 gallon tank with my pet GSH in it, he misses his PS buddies but I was afraid he would be murder on the PS fry.
Soon I will take out some fry to raise in the 10 gal. tank and put the GSH in with the PS's. I also have a 40 gal. tank I can use.
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Larry,
I got the agitator today. It's in excellent shape and I even tried it and it works fine. You da man! Otherwise I would have had to buy one for back up. If you ever need anything...
Of course you do realize you may be getting me into trouble right? I'm thinking of sneaking out the wife's Shopsmith from another section of the basement into the garage. (She hasn't used it in at least 10 years and probably wouldn't miss it)Then cleaning that area out really good, epoxing the floor and setting up another RAS for yellow perch. Once it's in it's too late. HeHe! It weighs 2400 pounds full of water, honey. Too heavy to move... And besides we may not need a humidifier over the winter...
I want to put in some YOY yellow perch for the winter and see what kind of growth I can get. But I'm not sure what to do with my up to 6 inch bluegills in the present RAS. I suppose I could put them in a cage over the summer and move in some YOY bluegills.
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Cecil your wife has a Shop Smith, those are handy, does she teach shop at the school. I'm sure she won't mind you taking up more room when you explain how much money you'll make with it. That's pretty fast growth for the BG you had in the RAS over the winter, are they the Condello strain?
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Cecil your wife has a Shop Smith, those are handy, does she teach shop at the school. No she teaches German. He just enjoys working with wood and making things, although it's been a long time since she's done anything.
Well she didn't mind the money I should make off the perch this fall.
[quote=adirondack pondThat's pretty fast growth for the BG you had in the RAS over the winter, are they the Condello strain?
Yes Condello strain. (Actually Bairdello strain). Although in all fairness I brought some in from a floating cage that may have been slightly bigger than the original inhabitants. Now I can't tell which are which.
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Cecil, if you need a hand moving stuff give me a shout.
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Well I'll probably take you up on that offer. I'd like to also grade the fish, and if you still want them I'll give you the slower growers. With any luck the yellow perch YOY in the pond will be the same size as the largest gills and I may put about 100 of the perch in with them. Then set up another tank for several thousand YOY bluegills.
It's taking me forever to get 13 fish done for two taxidermists. I finally have 10 ready to paint minus some raised scales I need to glue down. I'll be airbrushing all day tomorrow and maybe the next. Once i get them done and get paid for them, I may be off for another tank to put the RBC in.
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It's been about 5 weeks since the first PS hatch, I shut off the fountain and in the bright sunshine I could see the fry swimming around. The adults didn't bother them, probably cause their so well fed. I scooped up about 3 dozen to put in the 10 gal tank but first I had to take out my pet GSH and put him in the mini pond. The fry are 1/2" and smaller and still plenty of them in the mini pond. I'll keep a couple dozen of the largest offspring that I get by the end of sept. and see if any grow bigger than their parents. The adults ranged from 7 to 8 1/2 inches.
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Great job. If possible put a couple in an clear glass jar with good water and take some pics.
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I could use my wife's big soup jar.
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A quart jar will do fine. I don't want you to get in trouble and have that soup jar crashed on your noggin.
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Here's a better pic of the fry, the soup jar was off limits so I used a wine glass.
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Wine glass worked good for pictures. Others take note.
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Wine glass worked good for pictures. Others take note. Bill, I would have used one if I could have found one large enough. Honest!!
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Here's a better pic of the fry, the soup jar was off limits so I used a wine glass. Nice looking fish Larry. They look like they are getting plenty to eat.
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Man those are good looking PS. Thanks for the pic. Can I use it (with credit) ? How old are those fry at that size (from spawn)?
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That IS a good pic. What do you estimate the difference is in the age of the large/small fry?
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