Blue Gail
Dale Harris
Has anyone tried putting blue gail (spelling?) in there pond?
How have they done?
Harold Arnold
Dale Harris wrote:
> Has anyone tried putting blue gail (spelling?) in there pond?
>
> How have they done?
I have blue gill (I presume this what you mean) in my large bass/catfish
pond. They keep the bass and catfish supplied with small food fish.
Also some people like them as a food themselves as they grow large
enough to fill a frying pan.
I would not recommend them as a resident of a community water garden
pond. They are sure to make life misserable and uncertain for other
more docile fish such as goldfish and koi. I suspect the larger ones
would have no big problem downing 6 inch individuals of these breeds.
Also I suspect they would uproot plants.
H.
m. hogue & s, robinson
Had a blue gill in my koi pond for over a year. He was a great canary.
He got every disease first, and felt every stress more severely, than
the garbage eating koi (who I dearly love - mind you).
My experience was good. He was smaller than the koi - and didn't try
to molest them in any way. It seemed to be a peaceful co-existence, and
the value of having a canary was terrific. I could see the problems
coming. Koi in South Texas are always having some kind of problem. Keeps
your adrenaline level going.
I wouldn't put two in tho, they breed faster than cockroaches.
Kurt Bilinski
We had one in our Koi pond for about a year before it disappeared
without a trace.
A very interesting fish, quite different in behaviour then the Koi.
He learned in two weeks to eat worms out of my hand, in fact getting
so tame that he would follow me around the pond. He would just sit
there, looking up at me, saying "worm, worm?".
They do have teeth as I found out, but as he was a small Bluegill,
I still have all my fingers. I put him in the pond to have something
that would eat the live bugs that drop in the pond (Koi won't touch them.)
Since he was small, he never bothered the Koi.
Kurt
SUZDIXON
My mom has them in her large pond (4 1/2 acres) They take over. If you
want to have any bass or other fish, I would not recommend them. They do
make WONDERFUL eating. She is so overstocked in small blue gills (3-4")
that the rule while fishing is that all blue gills caught that are under 5"
are to be put on the compost pile for garden fertilizer. We know that we
have bass in that pond, but they are SO well fed on blue gill young that we
rarely catch one when fishing.
Suz
Suz Dixon