Grass/redfin pickerel will only eat live fish. I have been keeping them for
several years now and they will eat nothing but live fish that move. Mine is
about 10 inches long and eats about a dozen or so 1-2" feeders a week each.
They have to be alive and they have to move, I have tried to fake them out
before with other stuff but it never works. They wont even eat feeders that
they hit and stun if they are not moving.
If you get one make sure that you can feed it. I have a deal worked out with
my local pet shop to buy my feeders in lots of 100 at a time for cheap
several days a week. Between my pickerel, rockbass, bluegills, crappie,
yellow perch, and bullheads I use a lot!
Wally
----- Original Message -----
From: <Gastropodmania_at_aol.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Redfin pickerel
> Hello, I was wondering if redfin and grass pickerel will only eat live
fish,
> or if they will except substitutes such as worms often. Whenever I go to
the
> pet store I can get feeder fish, but I can't go every day. There is also
a
> new novel product called "fun-feeders." It's a fish shaped chunk of
frozen food
> with a transparent fishing line in it, which you use to make the chunk
move.
> Do you think this would fool it?
>
> [demime 0.99d.1x removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name
of Fish .jpg]
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