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Wondering if its possible to get some fatheads and put into a 100 gallon bait tank ( aerated and filtered) if they will spwn out and multiply?? anything in peticular to help them with spawning? Just curious, i hate buying hundreds of dollars of minnows every year to feed my ever growing children....
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Have fish..Will Travel Mark Blauvelt - Dayton Ohio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .75 acre pond, HSB,YP,CC,BC,BCF,BG,HBG,RES
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Oh yeah, already spending hundreds of dollars on pellets but like to use the minnows to keep everyone in the pond active when it comes to actually chasing down a bait, making them easier to catch with lures...too much with the pellets and the fish wont hit anything else. LOL
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Have fish..Will Travel Mark Blauvelt - Dayton Ohio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .75 acre pond, HSB,YP,CC,BC,BCF,BG,HBG,RES
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Mark, I wanted to do the same thing so I hope you can pull it off. I can't aerate at my ponds so I put my plans on hold. I wanted to use 275 gal. totes but will wait till later to try them. Good luck with your project.
Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.
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It is very difficult to create a zooplankton community robust enough to support large numbers of FHM fry in an aquarium.
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It is very difficult to create a zooplankton community robust enough to support large numbers of FHM fry in an aquarium. CJ do you have any ideas for a small scale way to grow fat heads?I too have been thinking of ways to raise minnows here at the house away from the big pond.
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I have spawned FHM and other similar species in small lined backyard ponds but never in large numbers like those needed to feed large numbers of fish. I have spawned them and others in aquariums too. It just takes a lot of work to condition the fish and then get the fry to feed on infusoria until they are large enough to take ground up flake food.
Digging a small 0.1 to 0.25 acre forage pond is my best recommendation...
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I actually had some FHM spawn in my 300 gallon tank, the issue I had was there a GSH hitchhiker that took all of them out.
Even though I was mad, I have to admit it was pretty cool to watch that shiner pop them FHM fry.
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