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Post by squirrelhunter on Apr 11, 2013 13:21:25 GMT -5
Just stocked 25 hybrid channel in my pond,they're a cross between a female channel and a blue channel. I hope they do good,I'm down to 1 albino channel and some channel fillets sure sound good   . |
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Post by Decatur on Apr 11, 2013 13:36:36 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Apr 11, 2013 14:44:31 GMT -5
Some years back I bought some hybrid channels and was told they wouldn't reproduce. Wrong was he. I had a serious population problem for while.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2013 15:02:56 GMT -5
If they reproduced, then they were wrong about them being hybrids, that's for sure.  |
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Post by throbak on Apr 11, 2013 20:46:48 GMT -5
Whats a blue channel? And whats a Hybred Channel??
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Post by squirrelhunter on Apr 12, 2013 8:09:04 GMT -5
Whats a blue channel? And whats a Hybred Channel?? A blue channel is a larger species of channel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_catfish and a hybrid is a cross breeding of a regular channel and a blue channel. |
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Post by duff on Apr 12, 2013 16:46:53 GMT -5
Whats a blue channel? And whats a Hybred Channel??  , never heard of them.... hybred fish are usually just 90%+ males so you don't get much reproduction but there is some. Not sure about the cats as I have never heard of those. |
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Post by featherduster on Apr 13, 2013 6:02:47 GMT -5
Who did you purchase your Blues from?
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Post by squirrelhunter on Apr 13, 2013 11:09:26 GMT -5
Who did you purchase your Blues from? I didn't buy any blues,just the hybrids,from Arkansas Pond Stockers,they did the breeding.They also have hybrid bluegills I believe. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2013 11:43:46 GMT -5
Whats a blue channel? And whats a Hybred Channel?? , never heard of them.... hybred fish are usually just 90%+ males so you don't get much reproduction but there is some. Not sure about the cats as I have never heard of those. This is news to me. I was always under the impression that hybrid animals could not reproduce. So, some can? |
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Apr 13, 2013 18:48:03 GMT -5
The hatchery by me says the same thing. I had got some hybrid bluegills which he said were 90% males. The offspring from the ones that did reproduce look like a funky muted bluegills. These occured about 5-6 years after the initial stocking.
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Post by esshup on Apr 18, 2013 0:32:04 GMT -5
Just a word of caution to you guys. If Arkansas Pond Stockers are correct in saying that they are selling Coppernose Bluegills, I wouldn't stock them in any ponds in Indiana. If they are CNBG, they will NOT survive the winters in ponds that ice over. They are native to Florida and don't like cold water.
Blues in ponds will eat more of the smaller fish than Largemouths once they get over 18" in length. They can get large enough to eat 2# Largemouth. I'm not saying not to stock them, just wanted you to be aware of what you are stocking.....
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Post by squirrelhunter on Jul 22, 2013 8:59:59 GMT -5
They were about 3" long when I bought them and I caught 1 Saturday that was about a foot long,so they're coming along . Here's my lone albino getting a bite to eat. There was also a carp a little bigger than him up eating too along with a bunch of bluegill. I'm cleaning a bunch of them out,WAY too many of them.  |
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