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| Author: | muffettsman [ May 6th, '11, 14:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
From all the reading, it seems it takes a long while for a new system to get going strong as you are raising fingerlings that aren't putting out that much amonia to nitrite to nitrate as you see with a system a year old and well stocked fish - well could u use wild fish to jumpstart the system? (obviously nothing like bass / catfish / gar  ) though i would think carp or maybe brim might be ok? and i guess to be safer add fingerlings to the sump or maybe put in a mesh divider in the FT
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| Author: | gnash06 [ May 6th, '11, 14:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
No reason why you can't...just remember wild fish may have nasties on them (parasites etc) and if you add different fish into the system it may affect them 
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| Author: | Rosie B [ May 6th, '11, 15:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
We have some wild fish in our system (Just found out some may be Feral  ).Another down side to them was we also managed to introduce water snails and some leeches as well. 
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| Author: | Dufflight [ May 6th, '11, 15:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
Give the wild fish a salt bath before you toss them in. I was given a small golden perch a while back that I threw in the pool and he's now plate size. |
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| Author: | vlt [ May 7th, '11, 04:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
muffettsman wrote: From all the reading, it seems it takes a long while for a new system to get going strong as you are raising fingerlings that aren't putting out that much amonia to nitrite to nitrate as you see with a system a year old and well stocked fish - well could u use wild fish to jumpstart the system? (obviously nothing like bass / catfish / gar ) though i would think carp or maybe brim might be ok? and i guess to be safer add fingerlings to the sump or maybe put in a mesh divider in the FTCycling is to ensure waste produced by te fish is adequately dealt with so the fish don't die. Cycling is considered to be 4ppm of ammonia converted to 0ppm ammonia and 0ppm nitrite in 24 hours. Cycling doesnt take 1 year. When people talk about mature systems I think it relates more to the plants. Some may also mean it in a wholistic sense. You can use wild fish, but wild or tame it make little difference to cycling |
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| Author: | SwampCreekFarms [ May 9th, '11, 22:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
all of the fish i have are wild. i added some cat fingerlings to my tanks, then the fish started dieing off ?!!? i think i will just stick with fish from the ponds |
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| Author: | gnash06 [ May 10th, '11, 09:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
SwampCreekFarms wrote: all of the fish i have are wild. i added some cat fingerlings to my tanks, then the fish started dieing off ?!!? i think i will just stick with fish from the ponds Dufflight wrote: Give the wild fish a salt bath before you toss them in. I was given a small golden perch a while back that I threw in the pool and he's now plate size. SFC...try Dufflights idea..it should work for you 
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| Author: | Dufflight [ May 10th, '11, 18:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use wild fish to start up a new system? |
A mate went fishing the other day and caught 6 fish. Was only thinking that a small AP system would be good for keeping wild fish alive before eating them. Catch 10 fish and you can eat them over a couple of weeks or longer. |
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