Mudminnows

[Captain Retardo]

I was just wondering If anyone else here owned some Mudminnows? I never seem to find topics about them! But I guess they probably don't sell in stores. I caught mine in April in a pond in my back yard, brought him back to my tank, Hes been fat an healthy this whole time! He never attacks any other fish, is incredibly hardy (they survived my tank die-off of June 2007). But he was a bit shy when i first got him though (not anymore)

They are about 3.5-4 inches long, and apparently are related to Pike

Heres a pic from google:

EDIT- These links work: http/images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...%3D10%26hl%3Den

I'll post pics of mine sometime soon!

 

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Seems interesting...looking forward for the pics

 

[Straydum]

i've never heard anyone keeping them. btw the link doesnt work. lol

 

[Captain Retardo]

oops, sorry. This works: http/images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...%3D10%26hl%3Den


Edit- Heres another good pic:

Edit No.2- I just looked at the words in my first link:

Mudminnows spawn in April. Pairs move to shallow water, where the female deposits 200 to 2,000 adhesive eggs, which separately stick to vegetation. No parental care is given the eggs, which hatch in about 1 week, or the young. Dwelling in the muddy bottom waters of streams, ponds, and marshes, the adults are predominately plankton and insect eaters.

Mudminnows are good aquarium fish because of their hardiness and tolerance of low dissolved oxygen levels in water.

I know I caught them during breeding season, because I saw a bunch of them in shallow water, that evaporates by summertime, and I saw baby mudminnows. But I just noticed that the DNR even said they were good aquarium fish!!! +1 for me!!!

A little bit more info on them: http/www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/fish/umbra.html

 

[dizzied]

Very few people here seem to keep US-native fish. There are a number of other sites/forums on this hobby though.

 

[Captain Retardo]

Very few people here seem to keep US-native fish. There are a number of other sites/forums on this hobby though.

That's pretty sad, US native fish can be especially cool, especially rainbow darters (google em). But the only reason I got this fish is I found it in a back yard pond (along with many others). All my other fish are run of the mill tropical fish

 

[dizzied]

I suppose it isn't popular here since most of them are temperate fish rather than tropical.

I've seen rainbow darters, they can be very, very colorful. My personal favorites are blackbanded sunfishes and starheads.