Baby Muskys at Cabelas w/ Pics and video link

[Rich McVey]

Mark Wells:

Cascade Musky Association in cooporation with the WDFW, donated tiger muskies to Cabelas today. Sounds pretty simple but it's actually been an ongoing project since last summer.

After the Lk Tapps stocking today, myself and Todd Reis followed Steve Caromile(WDFW)to Cabelas to 'hand off' 4 lil tigers to Ethan Evans(Aquarium manager). They will spend some time in a quarantine tank before being added to the spiny ray aquarium along with the bass, walleyes etc.

Probably in a couple weeks you'll be able to see the beauties swimming around and looking tough.

Mark Wells

Thanks Mark, and to everyone involved. Im looking forward to seeing them in action.

[kevinb]

Very cool fellas. Now I have more reasons to stop at Cabela's.
Not sure if anyone noticed the wolverine or badger in the background,lucky that thing
didn't attack anyone

[Rich McVey]

We stopped in this last weekend on our way to Silver Lake, the baby muskys are getting big. The look well fed and are getting thick.

[Rich McVey]

The lil Muskys are doing well. 5 of them all fat and happy.

[YellowBear]

Thanks for the update on them little Tigers, pretty cool.
Its interesting that they seem to hold higher in the water column than the other fish.

[Rich McVey]

The still pics are just moments away from feeding time. I have video of the feeding that Im trying to clip out the boring and out of focus parts. The lil muskys are fast! I couldnt believe how fast they would dart past other fish and grab the feeder fish. I'll get that posted soon.

[Blackmouth]

What are the feeder fish???

[Rich McVey]

No sure what the species is, they are about 3 inches long, white'ish. You might be able to tell in the video.

[kevinb]

Good call YellowBear,I never thought of it 'til now but every time I've drifted in
there,the muskies are always near the top,while the bass and gills are all over the place.

Great pics Rich, I was in here on my way down to Silver,I swear the walleyes are on steroids...
they seem to get bigger and bigger but at almost an alarming rate.
They now have the baby sturgeon in with the trout...I heard a guy telling his wife"Hey,look at the little
catfish." Good times!!!

[ckim85]

last time i was there and they were doing the feeding, i could've sworn they looked like little trout...

[Rich McVey]

Lil Trout? Sure you were lookin in the right tank? Oh... You meen the feeder fish. lol

At one spot, almost at the mid point of the vid, you get a shot of all 5 of them.

Sorry the pic gets crappy but I was taking the vid on a still camera and this was the first time I used it.

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Enjoy :jocolor:

[Mike Carey]

hey that was cool, thanks for the post. They sure are fast when they commit to the bait fish.

[Rich McVey]

Thanks Mike. Next time I'll be using the Vid Cam and a tripod!#-o

Believe it or not, the still pics and the vid came from the same camera.

[Mike Carey]

for a camera phone it wasn't that bad.

[Rich McVey]

for a camera phone it wasn't that bad.

Ouch It wasnt a phone.

10 Megapixel, 10x optical zoom. Dont even remember the name brand, Olympus maybe. Got it at Sams Club for $250. Looks like an SLR but does not have interchangeable lenses.

[bionic_one]

The tails on these little guys don't look very healthy. Then again, most of the fish in those tanks don't look very good. I was down there Saturday (14 November) and their tails were looking even worse than in the pictures in this thread.

Is there a plan to remove them from the tank at some point? It's an awfully small tank for a fish that can grow so big... They'll probably be eating their neighbors too.

[Amx]

Looks like they've been eating each other's tails.

[tnj8222]

Thanks for the update on them little Tigers, pretty cool.
Its interesting that they seem to hold higher in the water column than the other fish.

That's what I was thinking while looking. Maybe they know its almost feeding time? Can't look to much into it since its just a fish tank. But I have a lm in a 55 tank and I learned a little bit about how they eat. I also found out some bass are really hard sleepers lol

[YellowBear]

RaMcVey, thanks for posting your film.
I also noticed the Muskie's tails but there tails always seem to be shredded, and was going to ask WHY?
I noticed A Largemouth that seems to have some sort of fungus.
The little Bluegill that had a mouth full was running for his life, lol.
You didn,t give the Walleye much exposer,lol but it looked like a good one.

I also saw something that I am going to try on the Pike.
Thanks again for posting it.
I will let you know if it works.

[Sounguru]

I was just down there on the 1st of December and there was a large cat with a really bad fungus problem. None of the fish looked really healthy. I am an experience fish keeper 16 tanks going as we speak and if my tanks ever looked this bad I would give up and quit.

Sad to see....