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stevend135

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Hi, I have a ten gallon tank from walmart and got about 15-20 waleye minnows from cabelas and was wondering will they get big like over 7 inches or a foot? Also what do I feed them will fish flakes from walmart work? when they get bigger will they eat rosy red feeders?
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I'm sad to say that your tank is too small. I am not sure to what size the fish grows but I'm assuming they are at least 1 inch, the general rule is 1 fish to every gallon and judging by this rule you have a few too many fish. Bring your fish back in exchange for some smaller fish such as 3 corys and 5 cherry barbs.
 
Hi, I have a ten gallon tank from walmart and got about 15-20 waleye minnows from cabelas and was wondering will they get big like over 7 inches or a foot? Also what do I feed them will fish flakes from walmart work? when they get bigger will they eat rosy red feeders?
thanks
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Sorry if this sounds rude but I get the feeling you're pulling our legs here. Cabelas is a fishing store and walleye minnows are a form fish bait for the large walleye fish.

If you're not having us on then I apologise, maybe you could post some pics of your fish so we can find out what they are. However I think that with 15-20 in a 10G tank you will be overstocked however big they get.
 
If these walleye minnows that you bought from Cabelas are actually walleye fry, then your tank is definitely way too small. In the wild, walleye grow to be rather large. My dad is a fisherman and caught one that was about 30 inches long and weighed 8 pounds. Hopefully I am wrong and they are something else, but I just wanted to warn you.
 
If these walleye minnows that you bought from Cabelas are actually walleye fry, then your tank is definitely way too small. In the wild, walleye grow to be rather large. My dad is a fisherman and caught one that was about 30 inches long and weighed 8 pounds. Hopefully I am wrong and they are something else, but I just wanted to warn you.
Hi, they might be the walleye fry i am going to get rid of a few of them because i heard minnows die easy so i will probably let them go when they get bigger one of them is already three inches. They are small shiny silver fish for the description.
 
if by let go you mean release them into a local body of water, i would advise you against it. Though they might be a native fish, keeping fish in aquariums and then releasing them into the wild can release aquarium diseases that don't exist in the wild and can wipe out whole populations. Also fish raised in aquariums will have missed the valuable learning time of their babyhood to know what to eat or not eat, and what is going to want to eat them. They will be sitting ducks to the first predator that comes along.

You really should get rid of all of them as they are not suitable in a ten gallon in any number, be that 1, or twenty. Take them back to the store. I don't know what their policy is on baitfish, but if you keep these fish, you will not have them for long. There is no way that a tank will be able to keep up with the amount of waste they will create and the fish will die of ammonia and nitrite poisoning.

When you've gotten rid of those fish, come back to us and we will help you choose fish that are much more suitable to your tank's capabilities :)
 

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