first pond, are sunfish a good choice?

anyone know where i could find them, should they be ordered online if
lps's dont have them available?

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:10:45 -0800, lurker lurker@ wrote:

anyone know where i could find them, should they be ordered online if
lps's dont have them available?

forgot to mention that they dont seem to be on sale anywhere..

"lurker" lurker@ wrote in message
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anyone know where i could find them, should they be ordered online if
lps's dont have them available?

I think that would depend on the size and location of your pond, whether it
is in an area where they could escape into natural waterways, etc... Please
post some more details about your setup.

Jacqui

"lurker" lurker@ wrote in message
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anyone know where i could find them, should they be ordered online if
lps's dont have them available?

I found those cheap 26 cent walmart goldfish to be an excellent first
choice.

Easy to take care of, colorful, cheap, and prolific. If you buy 5 the first
year, you'll have over 20 the next year!


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Gareee©
(Gary Tabar Jr.)

"lurker" lurker@ wrote in message
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im more of a oscar fan than i am goldfish to be honest. but sunfish
seem to take a wide temp range, is there any reason there not good
instead of goldfish or koi? its an idea though that, would also be
very easy to find.
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I may be mistaken but they need a cool winter rest period. They're also
carnivores so probably wont thrive on goldfish and koi foods.
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Being that your from Florida, I would not think finding bream would
be hard to do...Stay away from the typical green type bream. There is
literaly hundreds of various species of bream (sunnies) and some are
quite colorfull, and they all do well in warm waters typically found
in the deep south..
They eat whatever they can find, be it small fry, lizzards, or koi
food or fish pellets, its all eaten as they are not fussy eaters...Do
not go too heavy on the amoiunt you stock as they do multiply quite
rapidly once they hhit the right age and the waters are
right.........so its not impossible to get a heap of bream, that need
a home, so they do not get stunted.......

.......On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:10:45 -0800, lurker lurker@ wrote:
anyone know where i could find them, should they be ordered online if
lps's dont have them available?

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lurker wrote:
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:20:35 -0500, Hal wrote:


Which Sunfish?


i read mostly about green sunfish, im not sure if all sunfish take the
same temp range as these but they sound like they will be able to
survive most winters and summers. but again, no one seems to know how
to get them...

You can probably go out with a fishing rod and small hook to catch yur
sunfish. If they're not too badly injured by the hook, then they can go
in the pond.

This may not be legal eveywhere but if the fish are from a local lake or
pond, where's the harm?

Personally, I've often dreamed of catching a couple red eye, a smaller
than blue gill sunfish, that is plentiful in streams of South Georgia
and keeping them in my pond. Just a thought.

One reason I haven't rushed out to get some is because they are difficult to see in the
water and you can't really watch them like goldfish or koi unless you
get your head under the water with them. Hal

LOL! Underwater cam, Hal, underwater cam! ;o) ~ jan


~ jan/WA
Zone 7a

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:57:13 -0500, "axeman"
wrote:

the setups around 500 gallons with a stream leading to the pond, its
built on a slant and has a nice circulation. why would it need escapes
to natural waterways?? its also a warm water pond im located in fl.


I think that would depend on the size and location of your pond, whether it
is in an area where they could escape into natural waterways, etc... Please
post some more details about your setup.

Jacqui

im more of a oscar fan than i am goldfish to be honest. but sunfish
seem to take a wide temp range, is there any reason there not good
instead of goldfish or koi? its an idea though that, would also be
very easy to find.

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:17:00 -0500, "Gareee©"
wrote:


I found those cheap 26 cent walmart goldfish to be an excellent first
choice.

Easy to take care of, colorful, cheap, and prolific. If you buy 5 the first
year, you'll have over 20 the next year!