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I guess I should clarify more, It's more the fact that some are claming the hillstreams ie. beaufortia are predators.

On another forum I'm on there is a discussion going on. This was said: "I have kept butterfly plecos and they do not consume algae, they might accedentally consume some when they try to eat organisms that live in the algae. I feed my fish mostly live food. Daphnia magna, black worms and mosquito lar...

My Zip is 44099. I live 5 mins from Monster Fish Rescue. I would still rather rehome them to a Loacaholic. My son doesn't want me to get rid of the fishies, but my loach bug has passed. I'm still trying to figure out if my clowns would be compatible with natives. I'm glad everyone is offering help. ...

I love them, I don't know that anyone here lives near me.

Anybody here that wants my clowns, angelicus, and lone zebra, please contact me. I would really like for them to go to a loving home that can care for them. I will only offer them to someone who is willing to pick them up.

I live 1 hour East of Cleveland.

PM me.

mickthefish wrote:thanks tom for showing me your darters MATE.
we can't get them over here,
i did once have a pair of rainbow darters about 15 yrs ago, but i think they come in under the counter, know what i mean, but none since.


mick

You never know some may find their way to you.

[quote="Jim Powers]By the way, do you keep the dace in with the hillstreams and darters? Do they keep their color?[/quote] I keep blacknosed dace, shiners, fathead minnows in with the hillies and darters. The darters I have keep their color mostly, it fades as the temp rises above 70, luckily my wif...

I have : bluefin killi green sunfish rockbass blackside darter johnny darter greenside darter rainbow darter fantail darter American-flag fish blacknose dace redside dace fathead minnow mimic shiner orange-spot sunfish grass pickerel assorted other minnows for pickerel chow I'm sure I missed some If...

Grass Pickerel (Esox americanus vermiculatus) seldomly exceed 10 inches in an aquarium or 12 inches in the wild. Perfect Esox species for aquaria, Mine are only about 6 inches.

I'll have to get some. I also now have 2 grass pickerel that have a tank to themselves.

A few of the native fish I collected have had internal / external parasites, so you never know where they come from. PM me for more info on finding darters.

UPDATE!!! 3 hillstreams made it through and seem to do well in the company of many local native fish species. I got bit by the native fish bug bad, I have expanded my collection of fish and reduced tropical / non natives down to my 75 gallon and the 3 hillies in with my darters / riffle fish. This w...

The darters are eating the following: Frozen Bloodworm Frozen Brine Shrimp Frozen Mosquito Larvae Frozen Mysis Shrimp Freeze Dried Daphnia Freeze Dried Krill A few have eaten flake, but I feed that so the Pimephales promelas don't eat as much of the good stuff. The hillies still seem to be out and a...

After de worming/parasitizing all darters and hillies are doing great.
Just wanted to keep those who may be interested up to date.

Yeah i know they like cooler temps, kinda like the hillies, I plan on getting a chiller to keep things cool.

The anal fin is the way they made positive ID on NANFA.