Feeding a pet crappie in a aquarium

[DEADEYE]

I have a crappie in a aquarium. In 2009 we stocked black crappie in our 100 acre lake, I kept one at 2".Today its 13".Im feed minnows in the summer and in the winter when they are hard to come by I go to Petsmart and get biggest gold fish. It will eat anything as long as it moves.
Im thinking about releasing this fish wish there is some way to tag it.

[Kevin22]

You can buy a tagging gun and tags on ebay. Do not release in a public lake!!!

[montagc]

I have a crappie in a aquarium. In 2009 we stocked black crappie in our 100 acre lake, I kept one at 2".Today its 13".Im feed minnows in the summer and in the winter when they are hard to come by I go to Petsmart and get biggest gold fish. It will eat anything as long as it moves.
Im thinking about releasing this fish wish there is some way to tag it.

Deadeye, just curious, how does the tank fish compare in size and weight to the lake fish?

[saltyDawg88]

Rosey reds, Small Gold fish, Minnows and Shad were what i fed my pet crappie. I rescued it when it was 5" from a tank that was drying up.
It lived for over 2 years in my 55 gal aquarium. It got to 15" and then died due to a 18 hour power outage we had in the summer of 2014.
The pic below is of GG and a blue cat and a perch with a bunch of shad I caught in cast net free from the lake. Shad was their favorite and the cheapest! I could keep 2 dozen alive for a week.. that is till the crappie and blue cat ate them. I learned a whole lot by watching it feed and how it related to the brush in accordance to high and low pressure. Below is the pic.

[DEADEYE]

Deadeye, just curious, how does the tank fish compare in size and weight to the lake fish?

The one in the tanks is just a little bit bigger than the lake fish.
This is a private lake also.

[crappies nightmare]

Can you just put in several dozen minnows and let them feed as needed are do they tend to gorge if you do that?
that pic is cool!

[saltyDawg88]

Can you just put in several dozen minnows and let them feed as needed are do they tend to gorge if you do that?
that pic is cool!

The Crappie never seemed to gorge itself, the bluecat was a whole other story. When I put in a few dozen the fish would feed as needed. you have to be careful how many you put in.. especially in a smaller tank like a 30gal. If I put in more than 3 dozen shad the water would smell and get cloudy. The most I watched the crappie feed on was 3 so i guess he would gorge itself a little. The bluecat would eat till he had tails sticking out of his mouth.

[quikcarl61]

I had a friend who did this, a little tid bit to this is if you watch where the fish is relating in the tank, that's usually what they are doing in the lake, we proved this many times thru the years he had them, try it

[saltyDawg88]

I had a friend who did this, a little tid bit to this is if you watch where the fish is relating in the tank, that's usually what they are doing in the lake, we proved this many times thru the years he had them, try it

Confirmed! High pressure GG would be under the brush and fishing that day i would catch crappie at the bottom of Bp's. During low pressure it would be on top the bp's and that is where I would catch fish while fishing that day.