i FINALLY caught another pumpkinseed for my tank. Now i just need one more pumpkinseed and one more bluegill, and my sunfish tank will be complete!

Pretty cool. Do you have another tank for your many species of bass?

Pumpkinseeds are cool fish! I got two of them about 4 months back with a bunch of feeders I bought for my Oscar. Unfortunately my wife fed the smaller one to my Oscar just this morning!  :'(

The larger one had a real bad fungus when we got him and I actually had to cut off part of his tail to get rid of it. His tail has grown back and he is very healthy now.

jimmieO, i have two tanks, one 55 gallon and one 5 gallon, in my 5 gallon i have tadpoles and golden shiners, and in my 55 gallon i have a bunch of fish, but i plan on making it a sunfish tank once i get 1 more pumpkinseed and 1 more bluegill. i don't know what you mean by my "many species of bass"?

MyKeyBe, that sucks! pumpkinseeds are cool. i wish i could find them in feeder tanks. i never find cool stuff in feeder tanks like other people have. then again, i wouldn't want fish from a feeder tank for the exact problem you ran into to, poor health. plus i think its neat that i personally caught every single one of my fish.

Dave,

Glad to read you are catching those pumpkinseeds and bluegills yourself.

I suppose each one sets your personal best.  ;D   ;D   ;D

.dsaavedra. - i just bought a house with a creek running through the back and plan on setting up an 180 gal aquarium. i bought an ultralight rod and plan on keeping some of the smaller panfish and maybe a baby smallmouth.

what do you feed those guys to keep them happy and healthy?

Are ya waiting to embarass him by posting a picture of him taking a poop?

.dsaavedra. - i just bought a house with a creek running through the back and plan on setting up an 180 gal aquarium. i bought an ultralight rod and plan on keeping some of the smaller panfish and maybe a baby smallmouth.

what do you feed those guys to keep them happy and healthy?

with wild fish, especially centrachrids (sunfish), its best to start them off with live foods. they will readily eat live foods, and doing this gets them used to you being the food source. my sunfish wouldn't eat until i started offering small little earthworms. they gobble them up. after a couple months of being in the tank, they started to eat flakes off the surface that i give to my cyprinids.

once your sunfish are used to you bringing them food, they will take pretty much anything. i can put bare tweezers in my tank and my sunfish will come up to them to see if there is any food on them.

this is what my sunfish's diet consists of: earthworms (main staple, i can get hundreds off my driveway after a good rain, i keep them in a glad container in the fridge), mealworms (get 50, 100, 500 packs at pet stores), crickets (pet stores), random macroinvertebrates i catch from the creek, frozen tuna, freeze dried bloodworms (pet stores), goldfish flakes (pet stores).

i have found these little sealed cans of preserved mealworms near the clearance section of Petco, they're in one of those tall cardboard "drop-down" dispensers. they advertise them as bluebird food, but my sunfish love them. i caught them on sale for $1 a can (i think they're usually like 3 something) and i got about 5 cans of them.

sunfish eat pretty much anything. i know a lot of people feed them frozen (not freeze dried) blood worms that you buy at pet stores. i haven't trid them though.

PM me if you wanna talk about keeping them in an aquarium, i should be able to help you out

Are ya waiting to embarass him by posting a picture of him taking a poop?

you guys are never gonna let me live this one down are ya? ;D

That's a cool hobby you have Dave.  I think it's pretty neat you caught all your fish too.  

That's a cool hobby you have Dave. I think it's pretty neat you caught all your fish too.

better than worm farmin'?

That's a cool hobby you have Dave. I think it's pretty neat you caught all your fish too.

better than worm farmin'?

110x better than worm farming  .  I bet your Pumpkinseeds would love a beetlespin ;D