minnow question

[wrs]

when I was at my LFS getting sand the other day I saw a little minnow swimming around in a plant holder. There was no filter or anything. Can minnows really live in non filtered/aerated water? What about the rosey red minnows?

 

[ryan]

There is normally a system filter filtering the plants tanks. How big was the tank? Minnows do live in slow/still waters in the wild but I it is always recommended that you keep them in well circulated, well oxygenated waters like the majority of wild specimens are.

 

[wrs]

I think it was like four gallons maybe. So they wouldnt do good ha, in non circulating water. Darn.

 

[Paul_MTS]

our local garden centre had put fish in some of the plant stands outsid, i think to try to get rid of algae

Even though my LFS has area in the garden centre they hadn't asked the guy in there first what to do