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This is our little pet perch Lipily Slopa! You can bet Chloe named her! No, I don't know that it's a girl. 
. I went to the Roanoke river at Wasena park 3 minutes from our home. I intended to get 3 tiny ones the size of Lipily Slopa (three inches) for our 20 gallon aquarium. I used the tiniest hook and a tiny grasshopper to fish. The first thing I caught within seconds of my first cast was a red eye bass. lol! I threw it back. As I caught perch I kept them in a bucket. When I caught a perch that was smaller than the ones I already had I would throw back the largest. I kept getting smaller perch. I put three in the tank. After just 2 days the tiny one really got comfortable. She started eating flake food as well as the small grasshoppers. The larger two kept acting terrified and swimming into the corners. They didn't eat the flake food. So I released to two larger and have kept Lipily Slopa! She really responds to me and the food container. She has a big appetite. I still drop in crickets from the yard from time to time. When she sees me coming she swims up to me. The video at the end shows one of the larger perch that I eventually released. The colors were much brighter and flashy on the adults. But they all had beautiful blue lines on their cheeks.
. I went to the Roanoke river at Wasena park 3 minutes from our home. I intended to get 3 tiny ones the size of Lipily Slopa (three inches) for our 20 gallon aquarium. I used the tiniest hook and a tiny grasshopper to fish. The first thing I caught within seconds of my first cast was a red eye bass. lol! I threw it back. As I caught perch I kept them in a bucket. When I caught a perch that was smaller than the ones I already had I would throw back the largest. I kept getting smaller perch. I put three in the tank. After just 2 days the tiny one really got comfortable. She started eating flake food as well as the small grasshoppers. The larger two kept acting terrified and swimming into the corners. They didn't eat the flake food. So I released to two larger and have kept Lipily Slopa! She really responds to me and the food container. She has a big appetite. I still drop in crickets from the yard from time to time. When she sees me coming she swims up to me. The video at the end shows one of the larger perch that I eventually released. The colors were much brighter and flashy on the adults. But they all had beautiful blue lines on their cheeks.
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