Benjansss Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 I used to keep bully's and I've decided to start again and over a few years i would like to get three of each type (two girls and a boy) and i wanted to know a few things are all types of bully's ok to keep in tanks can they all eat normal fish food and is there a universal way to tell the sex of a bully's and if all bullys can breed without the sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiraka Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 For food yes they can eat commercial foods but high protein and high quality is best. A better diet is bugs, heart from the supermarket or butcher and raw shrimp/prawns. Sexing for redfins is easy the males are red, the others are harder, females are usually pale and mature males have a coloured band on the first dorsal. Bluegills like high flow and are easily outcompeted so best to be kept in a species tank. As with all natives cold water is the key. Breeding with bluegills giants and redfins has not been acheived (to my knowledge) EDIT: actually blueether might have succeeded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjansss Posted October 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 I would give them some bugs and the the would be full of rocks pants and live food they could snack on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 For food yes they can eat commercial foods but high protein and high quality is best. A better diet is bugs, heart from the supermarket or butcher and raw shrimp/prawns. Sexing for redfins is easy the males are red, the others are harder, females are usually pale and mature males have a coloured band on the first dorsal. Bluegills like high flow and are easily outcompeted so best to be kept in a species tank. As with all natives cold water is the key. Breeding with bluegills giants and redfins has not been acheived (to my knowledge) EDIT: actually blueether might have succeeded? I believe that common are the only ones the are likely to breed in an aquarium. I had both common and Cran's fry hatch, and one common fry survive in the ~400L. I've raised redfin fry that I caught very small (~4 or 5mm). I doubt that they were big enough to be returning fry in the stream as it was very fast flowing across a beach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M@. Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 My red fins have spawned for the last two years. Haven't attempted to raise the fry - in a mixed natives tank so ended up as snacks very cool to watch the different breeding behaviour though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjansss Posted October 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Thanks for the info but can the blue gills giants and uplands breed with out the sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiraka Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Bluegills and giants probably, but havent heard of anyone being successfull. Uplands can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Bluegills and giants probably, but havent heard of anyone being successfull. Uplands can. I cant see Giant bullies breeding in an aquarium. I know that some redfin, common and Cran's don't go to the sea even though they have access to it. Not sure on the bluegill and uplands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverdollarboy2 Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Upland bullies are non diadromous so I cant see why not. Here's a thread of them being bred viewtopic.php?f=41&t=66197. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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