How to grow perch at home?

1. 

   Explore! Perch and other non-commercial fish can grow quite large, you need an aquarium of 500 and thousands of liters. These are not guppy fish, keep in mind the size of the adult fish you are looking for. They may need special care and food. Also, keeping some wild-caught fish at home may be illegal in your area.

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   Get a large aquarium. Depending on the type of fish, the first step is to buy an aquarium. Smaller fish, like long-eared perch, will do less aquarium than largemouth bass, which grows to a very large size, so the aquarium must be huge. As a rule, for every 5-7 cm of fish length, 25 liters of water are needed. The more it is always better.

3. Find a heavy duty filter.

   A heavy duty filter is needed to clean the large amount of waste produced by these fish, and a filter is also used to clean the environment. Don't skimp on the filtering device. Find an acceptable filter option with easy replacement of replacement filters. You will change them often.

   • Depending on the soil you choose, you will determine if you need a bottom filter and amplifier. In some aquariums, you may not use a bottom filter because you have fish from a lake with sand. If you've chosen gravel at the bottom of your aquarium, it might be appropriate to add a bottom filter. It will really help keep the waste level underneath. You will also need a bottom filter amplifier that draws water through the filter.
   • The substrate should be as natural as possible. Basically, it is an aquarium that displays a pond or lake in your home. Try to avoid bright soil colors. The sand in the aquarium naturally reproduces the bottom of the lake and really looks beautiful. Alternatively, pebbles will give your aquarium a great look. Plan to add 5 to 7 cm of pebble substrate ..
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   You can install the aerator in the aquarium by submerging the spray nozzle on the back of the aquarium or wherever you prefer. From time to time you may notice a fish playing in it.

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   Exercise caution and discretion when planting plants. Plants are a good addition to your aquarium, but these fish can eat live plants. Plastic or silk plants look flawless. In the presence of a huge number of species of such plants, there are even lilies. If you intend to mix fish species with a large number of plants in the aquarium, take care to create shelters for small fish.

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   Enhance your aquarium with light. Lighting can really enhance your aquarium. Find a spectral lamp that simulates natural sunlight. With quality lighting, you will see the full range of colors on your fish.

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   Get some useful flat stones. Another addition to the aquarium can be an area of ​​flat rocks, arranged in such a way as to give the impression of a rocky area of ​​a lake or pond. Some fish, such as rock perches, need this supplement.

8. Get ready for a variety of foods.

   These fish require different types of food.

   • Once your fish realizes that the flakes and pellets are food (it may take a long time), they will become the main food.
   • Buy quality flakes, brine shrimp pellets and bloodworms. Some foods help to give the fish a bright color, it seems that the fish is absorbing the food and its color increases.
   • Artemia cubes may crumble, making it easier for the fish to feed.
   • Be prepared to add live food to your fish's diet.
   • Especially valuable crickets, it is interesting to watch them.
   • An alternative is earthworms cut into 6mm pieces.
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   After completing the setup of your aquarium, pour the water slowly to avoid ruining the fixtures and decorations in the aquarium.

10. Plan to launch your aquarium in a month.

    The nitrates will break down and a water biobalance will form.

    • Spend some time reading about it, learn how to test water quality, and ask people experienced in the field.
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    Buy fish. It is highly advisable to add only fry to the aquarium. Adults will find it much more difficult to adjust to the biorhythm in the aquarium. They will be more stressed and more picky about their diet. The fry are more adapted to life in the aquarium. Start with lighter fish such as eared bass or rock bass, you will have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with them, and you will take the first steps to more complex varieties. Catching them with a hook and line is not recommended for two reasons. First, they are stressed and may have suffered trauma that should heal with your help. Secondly, if you caught them with a hook and line, they are probably oversized. You can catch them on the minnow, which is sold at the tackle and fishing store. It is basically a funnel at both ends, the fish swims and cannot escape. You can fill it with dry cat food or grains and secure it to the pier by dipping it into a lake or pond, or wherever rock bass can be found. (Check with your state's fishing laws. You may need to have a trap marked with your name, address, and fishing license number.) The smaller the hole in the trap, the smaller the fish will be. Let the trap stay there for a day or two, then test it. Have a bucket with a lid (ice cream buckets will work) for your new fish. You may be surprised at what you catch! Just save what your tank can hold or less. You can always add more fish later.

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    Before adding fish to the aquarium, place them in an air bag. and let it stay in it for 30 minutes to adapt the water temperature. Also remember to have a good heater in your aquarium. This is a tropical fish, not a goldfish. Add some aquarium water to an air bag to help the fish adjust to the new water. Add a little more water after another 20-30 minutes, if it looks healthy, move it to the aquarium.

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    Allow the fish a day or two to adjust to the aquarium environment before feeding them. Try to keep them away from stressful situations, prevent children from tapping the aquarium, etc.

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    When you start giving them food, add a small amount of cereal to them. Look at their reaction. After several attempts at cereal feeding, try feeding live or non-living food such as crickets, chopped earthworms, or shrimp. This is perhaps the most difficult process in keeping these fish. Watch them closely and write down what they eat. If it seems to them that it is food, they will eat it all the time. Stick to a schedule. They will begin to acknowledge your presence and rise to the surface for food. You can eventually start hand-feeding crickets and earthworms.

As strange as breeding

perches

can be useful for other fish in the pond, such as tench, bream,

roach

... The fact is that sometimes fish (char, gudgeon and some other small fish species) are found in ponds, which destroys the eggs of other fish and prevents them from multiplying. This is exactly the case when the perch will be the easiest way out of such a situation. Put a couple of poods of perch into such a pond, and it will exterminate these annoying parasites. But in order to get accustomed to the perch, you need to help, because where are the guarantees that the char or gudgeon, especially if there are a lot of them, will not devour all the caviar of the perch.To do this, on the eve of the spawning of perch (in March) not far from the shore (1 m), spread branches of a spruce or other tree, then when the perch lays eggs on these branches, fence them off with a fine mesh so that pests (meaning char and campaign) cannot get there.

There are also some requirements to the bottom and the quality of the water in the pond, since the perch is not a crucian and cannot live in a too muddy pond, which almost completely freezes to the bottom. It is necessary at least to provide them with depth and make ice holes in winter so that the fish does not suffocate from the lack of air and gases that algae emit. To reduce the number of perch, use the opposite method, throwing spruce branches with caviar from the pond. It should also be remembered that perch is very dangerous for

carp

, he eats both his caviar and young offspring, and if you breed carp, you need to think carefully about whether to launch perch into this pond or not and in what quantities.

You also need to be careful with the launch of perch when breeding fish such as smelt, perch, trout, the bream is less tolerant of the “hands” of the perch, since it spawns much earlier than the perch and the young offspring have time to grow up, while the pike perch itself can repel the perch. In the fall, some fishermen catch perches with seines in their ponds, where there are a lot of them.

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Breeding perch in the home pond

Despite the fact that perch is a predatory fish and its appearance in a pond can adversely affect some species of fish, nevertheless, breeding them for certain species of fish can even be beneficial.

Perch can be useful for tench, bream, roach, rudd and crucian carp. This is due to the fact that the gudgeons or other small fish in the pond eat the eggs of larger fish and thereby prevent them from multiplying. And having launched a couple of dozen perches into such a pond, not a trace of these small parasites will remain.

In order for the perch to live well in the pond, it needs to create the most suitable conditions for it. Perch loves depth and will not be able to live in a heavily muddy pond. During overwintering, in order to prevent perch from freezing, holes must be made in the ice so that the fish breathes.

In order to start a perch, you can spread out spruce branches in the nearest reservoir before spawning, at a distance of 1 meter from the shore. During spawning, perch will lay their eggs on them. Transfer these branches to your pond, fence them off with a net so that other fish do not destroy the eggs. After a certain time, your pond will be populated with perches.

It is important to note that perch is a rather dangerous fish for carp and carp, so their proximity in the same pond is undesirable.

Published: 19th January, 2014 in the heading: Settling with fish

Almost all anglers first of all pay attention to the weight and size of the caught trophy, without thinking about the age of the fish, how to determine it and how the fish grows in general. In this article we will try to answer these questions.

How long does the fish grow

The age of the fish is usually called the life cycle. In some, it is short, like pink salmon, which, having reached sexual maturity in a year and a half, spawns and dies (and there are dwarf coral fish, whose life cycle is just over 3 weeks), or very long, like in some sturgeons and sharks. Their cycle can be up to 150 years.

Unlike many representatives of the flora, fish grow throughout their life.

The growth of a fish is an increase in its size and mass. The growth rate depends on the type of fish, there are fast-growing ones and vice versa. The habitat also significantly affects growth: the availability of food, water composition, pressure from predatory fish, climatic conditions, anthropogenic impact, and others. If the situation in the reservoir is favorable, then the fish can live to "old age" and die a natural death.

How fast the pike grows

There are known cases of catching very large specimens of pike weighing 50 kg and 180 cm long. Its life expectancy is about 30 years. It grows differently depending on age. Usually 3-4 weeks after spawning, pike fry 3-4 cm in size appear from the eggs.If in the first year of life it reaches a length of 25-30 cm and weighs up to 300 grams, in the second year - 25-45 cm weighing up to 1.5 kg. In the third year, it grows up to 60 cm and can reach a weight of just over 2 kg. A ten-year-old pike can weigh 10 kg with a length of 1 meter. The above factors also affect its growth. In cold weather, especially in winter, pike growth slows down.

Its gluttony has reasons - it must "gobble" 15-20 kg of feed in order to increase its weight by 1 kg. And it is very important what kind of food it is. The larger the predator, the larger the prey should be, otherwise, in pursuit of small things, the pike will spend more energy than it will receive from the prey.

Males reach maturity in 1-2 years, females - in 2-3 years. The female is always larger than her male counterpart.

How much perch grows

The largest specimen of perch was caught half a meter long and weighing almost 6 kg. His age was 23 years. The perch grows very slowly. For the first year, its size is about 5 cm, at 6 years old - 20 cm.The growth rate is greatly influenced by external factors. In a small reservoir with a small food base, it grows more slowly, in large ones, it grows faster, in the first year it can grow up to 12 cm. To gain weight of 1 kg, it must eat almost 5 kg of food. At 2 years old, the average perch is 11 cm long and weighs 23 grams. By the age of 9 - 29 and 580, respectively. The stripes on the sides of the perch appear at a height of 20 - 25mm. The predatory lifestyle usually begins in the second year. Adult females are always larger than males of the same year.

How many trout grow

Trout has many subspecies, the main ones in the country are brook and rainbow trout. Pied (or rainbow) trout grows rather quickly in the first years of life, with an average life cycle of 12 years, it reaches a weight of 12 kg. In the first year, it weighs about 25 grams. Pestle reaches maturity at 3-4 years old. Rainbow trout, especially Canadian trout, grows even faster when bred in ponds, one-year-olds reach 125 grams by the year, and by one and a half they already have a marketable weight.

How much sturgeon grows

The size of the sturgeon is impressive. Its length can reach 6 meters and weigh more than 800 kg. The sturgeon grows very slowly and its maturation also occurs late. Depending on the subspecies, males become mature at the age of 5 to 18 years, females - from 8 and even up to 21 years. The largest subspecies of sturgeon beluga or kaluga, at the age of 15 years, they can weigh a ton with a length of more than 4 meters, there were specimens under 2 tons with an increase of 9 meters.

How much carp grows

This fish is fast growing. Under favorable conditions, carp reaches a weight of more than 50 grams in the first year, 800 in the second, and 1.2 kg in the third. Its length reaches 18 cm in a year, and up to 51 cm in 5 years. At 10 years old, carp can reach indicators of 70 cm and 7 kg. The life cycle can be over 15 years. The maturity of males occurs after 3 years, females - after 4.

How much catfish grows

It is the largest freshwater fish. There are known cases of catfish catch weighing 400 kg. In the first 5-6 years of life, it belongs to fast-growing fish, then the growth rate slows down significantly. Only in the first month they grow up to 15 cm. By their first autumn, their weight reaches 600 grams. During the first five-year period, the catfish doubles its weight, then the growth rate decreases. A 50 year old catfish weighs approximately 120-130 kg, and individuals over 250 kg are at least 100 years old.

How to determine the age of a fish

There is a popular anecdote on this topic among anglers. It is necessary to determine the age of the fish by the eyes. The farther they are from the tail, the older the fish. But in fact, it is not very difficult to determine the age of the trophy and is available to most curious people. As with determining the age of a tree, annual rings are counted to determine the age of a fish.

They can be seen on scales, gill covers, otoliths, vertebrae, and cuts of the rays of the pectoral fins. The easiest way is to use the scales. It is necessary to take not deformed scales, but not along the lateral line of the fish, clean it and use a magnifying glass or microscope to count the annual rings. You can also determine whether the fish grew quickly or slowly in a given year. If the fish does not have scales or it is very small, then counting can be done by the gill covers, vertebrae, etc. A prerequisite is surface treatment - it is necessary to dry, degrease, sometimes lighten them.

What kind of fish grows quickly at home

It is best to breed fast-growing species. The most popular fish for breeding in ponds is carp. Also, carp, cupids, silver carp, catfish, sturgeon of all kinds, pike, whitefish, trout, pike perch and others are bred. Most of them grow quickly and many are unpretentious to living conditions. Popularity depends on growth rate, nutritional value, and effort expended to create an enabling environment.

Special farms are being created that are engaged in fish breeding and commercial fishing.There are farms that raise fish for the organization of paid fishing, where fishing enthusiasts can entertain their souls on the pond, knowing for sure that there is fish in it. The rest depends on the skill.

When breeding fish in a pond, the best results are shown by carp, which can gain weight up to 1 kg per year, crucian carp - 300 grams. Cupid at the age of 1.5 years - up to 10 kg, but certain conditions must be observed to breed it. Silver carp can grow up to 2 kg over the summer, whitefish - 400 grams.

We hope that the information presented in this article will be of interest not only to fishing enthusiasts, but also to everyone who loves nature.