Native Fish as Aquarium Pets

[lovetofish]

its a nice thought to have game fish in your aquarium at home, but unless you really know what your doing with aquarium. Let the fish go or bring them home to eat. If you don't know what your doing, your just wasting the fish. Just my two cents.

 

 

lovetofish

[Burtess]

As some have said, it is illegal to transport live native sport fish without a permit, but it is legal to keep them, contributing to your keep limit.

 

It is a big no no to release them back into a body of water however!!! And this includes the same body of water they were caught in. Once they have been in your captivity, they must be euthanized if you no longer want them. This is how disease etc. is spread, by releasing captive fish back into the "wild" waterways.

 

And unless you keep the darters or minnow families, you need a large tank just to keep a single fish of the sunfish (bass), or pike/muskie. One sunfish in a 75gal tank is about maxed. These fish can be more aggressive than large CA cichlids.

 

And said previously in this thread, "keep ammonia levels on the low side", is wrong.... In a cycled tank there should never be any measurable amount of ammonia (or nitrite) as it is immediately converted into nitrate, which is removed by large weekly water changes.

 

Remember, large fish, larger tanks!!!!

 

Burt

[danbouck]

Currently I have 3 perch, 2 smallmouth, 1 largemouth and a sunfish (very small ones) in my 40 gallon tank. I have had them for a year now with absolutely no problems. It's great to watch how they eat and to test techniques at home. Also my son will sit and watch them all night.

[David Chong]

I have collected and delivered fish to BPS. I was required to have a special permit from the MNR in order to do this. BPS applied for it for us.

Cheers,

Dave