I NEVER Expected THIS!! Sunfish Tank Update You NEED to Watch!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2025
- My sunfish are doing crazy stuff!
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My Gear:
Rod and Reel Setups
amzn.to/3XYXw7T - Big Setup (Penn Fierce III discontinued, IV is upgraded version)
amzn.to/3JLoSID - Ugly Stick GX2 (I have a Medium Heavy, a medium, and 2 ultralights)
amzn.to/3Kd1tQH - KastKing Sharky III Baitfeeder
amzn.to/43d00At - Pflueger President Reel
amzn.to/3rmBwaJ - Penn Spinfisher
amzn.to/3rpdbRm - Ugly Stick Catfish Rod
amzn.to/43kTSGh - Penn Battle III Combo
KastKing Sharky II - Discontinued
Camera Gear
amzn.to/3pGkRyg - GoPro Hero9
I love how natural this looks. They are grouping and acting EXACTLY like they do in the wild. Good job. 👍
That is the highest possible compliment you could give! Thank you so much!
I’d recommend trying hard boiled egg yolk
When I bred angel fish and goldfish fry, I would hard boil an egg, take the yolk and put it in with a bag that had tank water in it and mash it up then take a syringe to squirt some of the egg yolk in the tank
The yolk is so small in it particles that the small fry could eat it
You just gotta do water changes a bit more often and not feed to much to not spoil the tank
Egg yolk is very high in protein and helps a lot in growth, you can also try to grow baby brine shrimp if you wanna go that route as well
Thanks!! I may try the egg yolk thing just to kickstart that growth!
@@CGLFishing just make sure to not add to much and do water changes
Egg yolk spoils fast and a smaller portions go a long way lol
My pumpkin seed breeds with his female like every other week and I’m tempted ti try and raise the fry but I have no idea what I’d do with them lol
@@ianmallory4205 nice! You have videos of them? I don't know what I'm going to do with all the extras either 😬
@@CGLFishing i apologize on the quality, the light messes it up th-cam.com/video/QKkW8ROeBpE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=J4inpxyDyRoeH_nW
In this 55 gallon tank there are 2 pumpkin seeds (male and female) and a northern long ear (red eyes)
Obviously there’s other fish in the tank but they all don’t both one another thankfully
@@ianmallory4205 that is awesome! Beautiful fish and tank!
Cool way to run the Green Sunfish. Fun to see them interacting and getting a spawn is really a hoot too.
Thanks! Going to try for another spawn!
@@CGLFishingfeeding them brine shrimp can be a great way to raise em when they’re very small.
@@rickboone213
Truely Amazing!! Try raising pumpkinseed sunfish. I think they are one of the most colorful fish.
Thanks!! I used to have a redbreast and the color was phenomenal! I want to raise redbreast and long ears one day. Pumpkin seeds are gorgeous as well!
Those are some great looking meanie greenies! And congrats on breeding them! Some pointers on rearing fish fry:
- Use low-current filters like sponge or UGF
- You can feed them infusoria (like you did), as well as brine shrimp nauplii (from frozen), mashed up boiled egg yolk, and finely ground up flake food
Thanks! Unfortunately I lost this whole batch due to some unforseen circumstances but I hope to try again!
You should make a massive tank and add a bunch of different types. Like the community panfish aquarium. Would also be nice to put any babies from your other tanks in there. Really like your setup
That's the dream! Unfortunately, that's a MASSIVE expense so won't happen for a long time!
Dude, you did it. You bred captive sunfish!
Now we see of the babies make it!
I have some aggression issues in my tank. So I have to keep moving my sunfish and thgen it stops eating for a week. I'm putting a 100 gallon sunfish tank together this Spring, Lord willing. He hasn't said yes, yet. @@CGLFishing
@@outdoorsforachange how many sunfish do you currently have and what type?
Just the one now...I'm pretty sure it's a female blue gill @@CGLFishing
@@outdoorsforachange oh ok nice! If you setup a 100 gallon and want to add more you need to have 5 at a minimum so they don't beat each other too bad
tank looks good. happy that your plants are thriving all that protects the environment and fish etc , loving it. looking forward to the next update!
Thanks so much!
I saw a video with Father Fish who recommended the leaf litter. I used it and muck water from where I fish and covered it with gravel on a new 40 gallon tank. It was a super easy set up with minimal ammonia.
I think I watched that same video haha
I know you did as soon as saw the leaves, hahaha. It's not something you would normally consider putting in yoiur tank. @@CGLFishing
Guppies are live bearers, they don't "emerge from the gravel" :))
🤣🤣 I know they don't actually emerge from the gravel lol but after they give birth the babies swim down and hide in the gravel really well so it's seems like they do lol
That's correct
i catch those out in the creek! they're fun! they dont get very big. yesterday i caught a big one, i didn't have a scale but it was bigger than my hand! it's funny when people call them bluegills.
@@findinghumorthruitall haha yes around here dang near everything is a bluegill, crappie, or shell cracker depending on the person lol these greens are super cool fish!
Wow they look like Dark Knight Black Rams but waay bigger. Best looking native tank on youtube.
Wow! Thank you so much!! That means a lot! It has been a long process to get here!
The colors on these green sunfish are so crazy! They are underrated imo!
I would try a very small chunk of hard boiled egg, the yoke..... It would end up dissolving eventually, but they might find it and feed off of it.
@@1956tojo may try that next time!
Beautiful set up
aw what a proud daddy fish
Yessir he was!
You rTank looks wonderful!
The smallest fish I ever raised were Siamese Fighting Fish, and they are very interesting. Someone here recommended egg yokes, and a book I read talked about straining them through a handerchief. There is products out there called, Liquid Fry Food that you could use, (Cory Aquarium Co-Op-Easy Fry). The secondary food for my Siamese Fighting Fish, and possibly would work at the start for the Sunfish, would be baby brine shrimp from eggs. I did not use liquid fry since that was 40 years ago I raised them, just went to baby brine shrimp, so lost most of the Bettas. The Bettas are so small that the newborn guppies ate some.
If you had a huge tank, and just a pair of Sunfish, my guess would be that the pair could raise them like Cichlids to.
Thank you! And good info! I am going to do some of those tricks on the next batch if I try again! These are definitely completely different from what I am used to raising!
Seeing this makes me wanna do a sunfish tank!! Keep us updated
You should!! They are awesome fish!! I have a more recent update up now and I'm working on another big update in the next few weeks along with a live feeding video!
That's a cool tank setup! Thanks for sharing!🙂👍
Thanks for watching!
I used to catch these as a kid in ponds around MA. More the Banded Sunfish, I think. I never would've considered having them as aquarium pets.
They can be difficult just due to aggression and their size but they are super fun pets!
It is most likely the drop in PH that triggered the spawn. That is a trick for getting some cichlids to spawn. Put wood or leaves in the tank to leach tannins and drop PH and they will spawn a few days later.
Didn't know that! Thanks for the info!
Bro great video.
If you take regular fish, flake food, put a pinch in some water, let it break down so it’s real fine, the baby fish will eat all of that
Thanks! I try crushing up some pellets and that didn't work lol I'll have to get some flake for the next round.
“Whatever I needed to do” = Lunch lol
Hahaha
Lovely green tank ❤
Thanks! Update coming soon!
I subbed, I love native tanks, especially sunfish !
Thanks!! I love this tank and I have plans for more native tanks!
Beautiful tank! I have kept green sunfish before, but with all of the organic materials in your tank (leaves and suchlike), how do you keep the algae and rotting detritus taken care of? How big is your tank and what type of filtration do you use? Right now I keep spotfin shiners, blunt nose minnows, banded and rainbow darters and a brindled madtom catfish in my tank, but no live plants.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks! The organic matter doesn't seem to cause any issues (in fact it seems to help some things). I have a 150 gallon tank with a aqua clear 110 or 70 (forget which) and a sponge filter. I also have a power head for water movement. I have tons of plants including some growing out of the water. The plants make a huge difference!
I successfully bred my Green Sunfish pair too. Awesome fish.
They really are! Way underrated as aquarium species.
i think many people fail to realize the beauty and value of these fish because they are so common and often one of the very 1st fish a person will ever catch... they are so abundant in shallow waters like ponds and rivers etc. People need to realize these are top predators when in smaller bodies of water. Also they are in fact part of the "bass" family which is a far more respected fish overall. I have kept both and dont see much difference in overall behavior...Love the lepomids species...
@@87lynka they are awesome fish!! And there some intense colors in the different species!
@87lynka I agree completely. Top predators, and they know it. They bring a different energy into your tank. My bass and green sunfish are not skittish at all, unlike my cichlids. My bass hates my dogs. Every time my dogs play near his tank, he freaks out and tries to charge at them, fins all flaired out, haha.
I currently have one 2-year-old greenie who was born and raised in my tank. Eats regular fish food with no problem, unlike his wild caught parents lol
@@gamebredgaming483 how big is your 2 year old greenie?
My greengills (bluegill green sunfish hybrid) are fattened up like they have eggs too! excited to see what comes of it.
Good luck! If you dont see any showing behavior soon try a water change and adding some leaf litter!
@@CGLFishing Will do! Thank you and good luck with your babies!
@@BigBiteMafiaTV hoping I get another batch. This one got wiped out by bad circumstances :(
@@CGLFishing Oh noooo, I got one starting a bed and defending it. No eggs down but progress 🤞
@@BigBiteMafiaTV good luck!! Hopefully it works out for you!
If your temperature in the house is 70° that is why you’re sunfish are spawning. Smallmouth bass spawn between 63 and 65° largemouth bass spawn between 66 and 69 and sunfish spawn at 70. Same with Bluegills. If you continue to keep your house at 70° they will continue to keep going through a spawning pattern.
Good info! Thanks!
I had a big one for years. Had the top off in the summer. It jumped for flies. Old farm house. A hornet got in ..😢
Man that stinks! I had an issue with some jumping shortly after being introduced.
I wanna do a native tank so bad. So I would still have to treat the water, but I could still add things from the wild? Like sticks leaves & rocks? Without introducing a parasite of some sort to kill the fish?
There is always a risk but ime it isn't a large risk. These fish are used to living with what is in the wild anyway!
@@CGLFishing right yea green sunfish are my favorite I’m going to buy a tank today. I still do need the chemicals and what not correct ?
@@4trx3vxn4 yes. Tap water treated with chlorine or chloramine will definitely kill your fish. You also need to cycle the tank so that there are bacteria to eat the bad stuff.
I’ve had green sunfish, what’s the climate and how did you get them To spawn
Room temp (house set at 67 I think the water is 70ish). I think adding leaf litter along with a couple high protein feedings really brought them into spawning.
Add baby brine shrimp or grow them outside they grow extremely fast. I think it has something to do with the sunlight.
Unfortunately I lost the babies due to some other circumstances. Going to try again though!
I could hold a crawler for him . Lots i just dumped in a dozen perch minnows. He'd inhale one or more and spit out scales. It was cool
Nice! I have fed them a few random critters and it's always neat haha
How many gallons is your green sunfish tank?
I just started a 40 gal tank a year ago. The 3 fish i had were all 4-5 inches but they all grew quickly and I'm thinking I'll need to upgrade within a year.
@@primetines8678 it's 150 gallons!
I love your tank!
Thanks!
I want green sunfish so bad, but I don’t seem to find them here in my part of Georgia
They are awesome fish! Unfortunately they are invasive in many areas including in the southeast. However, of they are present I find the best place to reliably find them in is small bodies of water, especially creeks. Find you a creek in the middle of the woods and see what you can find! If not there are so many other species that are stunning but may take longer to pellet train. Redbreast are a personal favorite but they are unfortunately quite mean.
Dude thats awesome! How big is that sunfish tank? Did you catch these fish and put them in?
It's 150 gallons and yes my brother and I caught them!
@@CGLFishing that’s what’s up man! I have a 110 gallon tank that i keep sunfish in for bait for catfish. Never had them spawn tank its pretty bare as it is just a holding tank. But I do enjoy watching them.
@@_theperfectcast_ nice!!! I want to get a bait tank eventually too.
Wow what a nice tank love your videos
Thank you!!
More vids like this!
I'm going to do one here soon!
Update please
Coming soon!
Can we have a update video
I have an enormous project in the works at the moment but an update video is one of my next projects after this one!
How big is the tank
It is 150 gallons!
@@CGLFishing that looked so much smaller I thought it was a 20 high lol
Unreal to think they make it in the wild being that tiny
Right! I guess it's because the male guards them until they are free swimming and once they are free swimming they probably retreat into areas predators can't fit.
Where can I get pet sunfish?
I caught all of these myself but you should check your local laws.
@@CGLFishing cool thanks did you treat these guys with any medication before putting into a tank?
@@rag3skillz168 depends. If I don't see any signs of parasites I may not but if I do I will.
You're breeding baby Bobby Garlands!
🤣
Ive always wanted to breed a sunfish before but my sunfish are to fixated on food 🤣
Mine are to lol but when I added the leaf litter things changed drastically! What species sunfish do you keep?
Bluegill, Pumpkinseed, Rockbass, and hybrid greens @@CGLFishing
@@Rndmstff737 nice variety!
Do live food video’s
I don't feed allot of l8ve food but I could get some for a special occasion.
I like the video but it doesn't need the annoying music if you call that music
My audio setup is a little wonky at the moment so the music helps cover the background noise. But this wasn't a great choice of song 🤣
Your tank is dramatically too small for a them fish
Definitely not. It's a 150 gallon tank.