How is this possible? Fairfield for example, how do they survive and do they/can they reproduce in freshwater?
Ya'll may have heard this question 1000 times, I have yet to see it on here and need some answers!

Thanks Fellas,

Hogg

Yes,
They are hardy and live well in fresh water, but they can not reporduce and are therefore stocked.

I am interested too.

Also,
How do Striper survive in our lakes and etc whenever they are also in the ocean. Are these two different fish or same?

some articles #1

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Thanks Don

they are produced in hatcheries and then introduced to lakes... for example clavers and Braunig but they do not reproduce

I think these saltwater fish come up into freshwater rivers and live in the wild, so they can adapt to freshwater.

Also in some parts of the world sharks live in freshwater also.

Redranger you are right, they have found sharks as far as 50 miles upstream.

Stripers need a lake that has a high salt content. Texoma has high enough that they can reproduce. Stripers reproduce in all lake but they can not sustain sufficent population like Texoma.

Reds have to be where the water temp stays above a certain temp. i believe at around 72 degrees they stop feeding then at around 68 they begin to die!

Great articles, Don. I especially liked the second one which described the efforts of Billy Tyus. Jackie told me stories about Billy and his fishing and the balloon technique he pioneered there.

Guys like Billy, Jackie, and Don have really put in the time and effort to figure out those fish...and they have my complete respect.

By the way, the reference to 72 degrees stoping feeding and death at 68 are both way off. I've caught reds in mid-50 degree water and have seen Ice on Galveston Bay and no dead reds. They can make it all the way down into the 40's water temps especially if its a gradual drop. Those blue northers which drop the temps precipitously and empty out the bays can kill those fish that get stranded or trapped in shallow water, but most of them make it just fine in the salt in our winters.

Great, great fish.

Sorry had heard that along time ago for a warden on lake Colardo City.

what is the legal limit on reds? i am very curious.

3 on fairfield

reds are just one of a few salt water species that can be acclimated to fresh. you can do the same with snook and tarpon as well. i had 6 decent size reds at the bps aquarium. on had no spots and one had 13. cool fish.

Here is an interesting fact also. I'm in the saltwater reef aquarium hobby. One of the methods we use to kill off parasites on our reef fish is hyposalinity. I've done this with tangs, wrasses, clownfish etc. You gradually reduce the salinity to very low levels, which kills the parasites but the fish do great. I've kept them at these low levels for a few weeks, then bring back up the salinity and back in the reef tank they go.

That's very interesting to me...great hobby, by the way. I overwinter a bunch of freshwater fish and have found the opposite effect is also very helpful when handling them...i.e. increase the salinity. Seems to protect them from shock and slime loss. Works for me.

the same fish