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5:40 am
March 26, 2004
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Guys,
I was in PA last week visiting family, and saw the muskies in the tank. First of all, congrats for pulling this off.
I noticed that there seemed to be alot of "goofed up" fish in the tank, with kinked backs, weird horns, and whatever else. Is this usual, and did you guys see this last year at all? I'm curious how many of those will grow up to be big and strong.
By the way, I didn't do any serious fishing while I was around. Too hot and too many other things going on.
Chris
12:09 pm
April 29, 2007
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That's the first thing everyone asks when first seeing the tank, "what's with the goofed up ones?" I usually say a couple of things:
1. The ones with banged up jaws were like that when they arrived, probably due to square edges on the truck tank. We are looking to procur our own rounded corner tank to prevent this.
2. Due to unlimited food, stable temps and no competition the weaker fish that would not survive in the wild do so in the tank, they probably won't make it on the outside.
3. I think the horns will fall off when they get older, I've never seen a mature fish with horns.
4. Notice the growth rate is very fast, the fish are about a year old and huge.
Team MTF
5:20 pm
March 26, 2004
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Thanks for the reply. What you say is pretty much what I had figured.
Here in NM they stock tigers from PA. We see some pretty goofy fish, many with "snub noses". I don't know if it's the long trip, the water, or just the nature of hybrids. Of course, this is on top of the damage that comes from terrible catch and release practices.
It's funny, those tigers seem to do better here than they do in PA, but stocking them at a rate over 10 tigers per acre gives them a good chance.
Chris
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