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Bruce Condello's 225 gallon heated, filtered tank is full of redear sunfish. The redears absolutely love eating aquarium grade bloodworms.

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Comment by Tony Livingston on December 22, 2012 at 6:35pm

Using the BG as a training aide....brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?? Observational learning for feed training fish, just different species, or sub-species of fish. I've added feed trained BG to ponds to encourage feeding behaviour among the native population, but somehow I never thought to use the same technique for RES......

Comment by Bruce Condello on December 22, 2012 at 6:19pm

In water this cold, I can keep the numbers up, but as soon as it starts warming I'll decrease the numbers drastically.  There are actually redears and bluegills in the tank--I use the bluegill to train the redears to pellets.  For some reason in this video, I had almost exclusively redears in the field of view.

Comment by Tony Livingston on December 22, 2012 at 5:57pm

Per the norm, Bruce, I noticed some fish being far more aggressive and willing to feed than others. Is this a random group of RES, or has the selection process already begun by this point? How many are in this tank? Do you intend to reduce their numbers, or does crowding them encourage feeding?

One of our ponds has a good population of naturally occuring  RES x BG hybrids, and I have witnessed them taking pellets on the surface on multiple occasions. Awesome potential there, me thinks.

I can't wait to see where you take this........ (and I do very well taking fish on artificial bloodworms, especially of course, near the bottom)

Comment by John Sheehan on December 22, 2012 at 4:34pm

Thanks for this Bruce !Tied myself a little Bloodworm Jig I intend to use through the ice for the first time this year.Can't wait to give it a try for Gills and Seeds.

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