Originally posted by bobad:
If I could find a cheap source for pacu, I wouldn't mind stocking 25-50 a year just to have a dependable biting and hard fighting fish. Too bad they don't spawn until year 3. From what I've seen so far, their value for weed control is zilch. [/QB]Yes, my original purpose was to find a better grass carp...but that objective has been overcome by events
I wasn't aware of the year three spawning. I certainly believe I can raise some spawners...all it takes is a biiggg tank. I could see these fish reaching 20 pounds easily in three years...heck, I'm expecting 5-6 pound fish this year. Do you know what they require for spawning? I'd be interested in building a small spawning pond just for Pacu if I knew what they needed to spawn.
I've been working on more possible cheaper sources and also working on the possibility of paying a fish grower to overwinter a large number of these fish.
There are a lot of unknowns that we need to run to ground on this fish, but the potential is staggering.
