Bluenose Shiners
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Posted 12 June 2010 - 09:47 PM
I had some of these captive raised from Phil that were 1 year old last summer, and witnessed them spawning over a dollar sunfish nest. I didn't find any young last year, but they survived the whole summer and I brought them inside for the winter. I have always been told that they die after spawning once and would not survive to spawn again as 2 year old fish. Although, they survived the winter... they went back outside with the dollars... and so far I found 4 young and still have 9 adults that look like they are spawning everyday. Here are some pictures of the 4 young I found so far. Hopefully there will be more.....
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Posted 15 June 2010 - 02:33 PM
My wife took some photos of them swimming around in the pond but I can't seem to find them at the moment. The 4 I pulled out of the pond seem to be doing great. I'll keep looking for more but don't want to drain the pond and do any harm to the several hundred dollar sunfish fry that are swimming around in there. Minnow fry are easier to feed in the aquarium than the sunfish...
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Posted 17 June 2010 - 01:38 AM
Ain't THAT the truth?
Those who wonder what the big deal is with this fish can get a pretty good idea from these pics. The one shown at the tops of these forum pages is a sad specimen indeed.
Hey, I see you have the orangey-yellow ones. Nice. I've noticed that these come in two distinct color forms, orange-yellow and pure yellow, apparently based on either location or diet. Mine have always wound up pure yellow.
Hmmm.. question--were yours pure yellow until they spawned, at which point they turned orangey? Mine stayed yellow.
In other news, my quest to find them still present in Covington County remains fruitless.
Those who wonder what the big deal is with this fish can get a pretty good idea from these pics. The one shown at the tops of these forum pages is a sad specimen indeed.
Hey, I see you have the orangey-yellow ones. Nice. I've noticed that these come in two distinct color forms, orange-yellow and pure yellow, apparently based on either location or diet. Mine have always wound up pure yellow.
Hmmm.. question--were yours pure yellow until they spawned, at which point they turned orangey? Mine stayed yellow.
In other news, my quest to find them still present in Covington County remains fruitless.
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Posted 19 July 2010 - 03:14 PM
My wife took some photos of them swimming around in the pond but I can't seem to find them at the moment. The 4 I pulled out of the pond seem to be doing great. I'll keep looking for more but don't want to drain the pond and do any harm to the several hundred dollar sunfish fry that are swimming around in there. Minnow fry are easier to feed in the aquarium than the sunfish...
You could have moved the adult Dollar Sunfish and adult Welaka into a 300 gallon pond. You have enough Dollar fry in your pond. Seining in the top 8 inches might have caught many Welaka fry. The Dollar fry will grow better if not over-crowded. How many Dollar fry do you realistically need?
I have been feeding Dollar Sunfish fry to my Fieryblacks
since I don't need 800 Dollar Sunfish.
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Posted 23 July 2010 - 06:28 PM
I have not seen any more welaka fry but did move the adults into a pond with some actively spawning longears a couple weeks ago that did not have any fry in the pond yet. I haven't seen any welaka fry in there but there are now little longears.
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