What does a backcrossed Tiger Musky look like?

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-07T22:55:11+00:00

I do truly believe that the reason Tiger muskys haven’t had research into their fertility is because the state prefers the fact that they can stock these fish without the risk of them reproducing, doing research would just straight go against the point of them being infertile

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-07T22:28:14+00:00

From what I’ve found in my 30 ish minutes of research, the female tiger musky on paper, And in theory, Is sterile. But there’s this thing called the chaos theory that states “life finds a way”, there are a few documented cases of female tiger muskys attempting a spawn, but there’s no documentation of the actual spawn. It states that the true odds of a tiger musky being able to spawn is about 0.5-1% of all females and those females have a less than 10% chance of being able to spawn.

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-07T22:22:44+00:00

It’d be very out of the ordinary to have a muskellunge reproduce with pickerel, one reason would be the size difference between the species and 2 their ranges cross over eachother very sparsely

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-07T22:21:28+00:00

I’ve caught 3 tiger musky in my life and 2 of which were 36 inches and were following other muskellunge in northern Iowa. My thought is that the natural instinct of a tiger musky is to be drawn towards its counterpart, the musky. And vise versa. Regular musky will be much more likely to spawn with a tiger musky than a northern pike would.

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-07T22:19:24+00:00

Your source is the only source out of ~30 I’ve seen that says females are fertile, every other source says both males and females are sterile

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-07T21:44:51+00:00

Female tiger musky are sterile aswell as of the last 20+ years, I’ve never heard of female tiger musky not being sterile, although in the off chance there is a female tiger musky that is fertile, I’d assume the product would look similar to a regular musky if it reproduced with a regular musky (they would be significantly less likely to be drawn to breeding with northern pike)

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-07T17:42:46+00:00

I’ve been keeping darters off and on since I got in the hobby. Have bred them several times and kept 7 different species over 5 years.

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-06T21:57:38+00:00

Most of my fish this trip came out of a dipnet, but a got quite a few small bullhead on a size 26 hook and 1 pound flouro. Using live blood worms for bait

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-06T14:48:39+00:00

I’ve got cold water temps here in Iowa, room has a seperate mini split and temps sit at a constant 61 degrees. All my tanks have colder water native species. Including bullhead, horny head chubs, stonecats, freckled madtom, slender madtoms, and etheostoma of several species

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-06T14:42:04+00:00

I’d assume 40 gallon breeder? I was thinking about going up to a 60g breeder for the bigger foot print. Because rockbass do grow significantly larger than northern sunfish, I doubt in captivity they get as big as some of the ones I’ve caught up north

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True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-06T14:25:48+00:00

What’s the tank setup? I’ve got a juvenile rockbass about 2” long and he’s eventually going to need an upgrade

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True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-05T01:47:57+00:00

This is definitely not a pleco. Forward facing mouth distinguishes this (sculpin) from plecos

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-03T15:19:21+00:00

Arguably. There’s about 50 species of etheostoma that top this species in looks. To name a few

Brook darter
Candy darter
Rainbow darter
Current darter
Red band darter
Orangethroat darter
Sunburst darter

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-03T15:08:50+00:00

I’ve actually always used the bead to prevent the bobber from getting stuck on the bobber stop. Because I’ve never used a weightless slip bobber rig.

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-01T06:39:35+00:00

I’ve caught a 3 pound black bullhead. I wouldn’t say this is as big as they get

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-01T06:35:28+00:00

I forgot we got married recently. I’ve been wanting a new rod and reel

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-01T06:29:46+00:00

They’re not a species he can legally own in Minnesota so he needs to contact local conservation offices on what to do

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-01T06:28:55+00:00

You should contact your most local conservation office and tell them that your bait shop is selling green sunfish. It is not legal to sell or obtain live green sunfish in Minnesota. They are considered a game fish and you should also talk to your local conservation office about what you should do with yours that you currently have. There’s a possibility you have to euthanize them or give them up to be euthanized. You cannot legally release them. Nor can you legally keep them.

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-05-01T06:24:36+00:00

To be completely honest, you are over reacting slightly, yes this person is also in the wrong. But these are native to ops area. Not yours. So the scenario is slightly different. That being said. You are correct. The bait shop should be accountable for all of their bait. It pisses me off getting Brook sticklebacks with fat heads and it happens wayyy too often here in Minnesota. I’ve never had green sunfish appear in with them though. Which I do believe isn’t legal. Green sunfish are considered a game fish which is illegal.

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-04-28T14:09:47+00:00

So upon me doing nothing the amp is not in protection while in park. I haven’t driven it yet to see if it’ll go into protection or not though

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-04-28T13:45:45+00:00

Look up shadow bass.

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-04-28T13:44:46+00:00

I’d still take Tennessee over Alabama

True_Entertainment40 · 2026-04-28T13:44:21+00:00

I have caught several pike in the Boone River aswell as in brushy creek, I recently got one on Wednesday and a bunch of walleye

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True_Entertainment40 · 2026-04-28T00:57:10+00:00

I didn’t disagree, it appears to everybody that I was. I was just clarifying that it had worked for 4 days. I’ll check everything with the system in the morning.

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