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Red Lipped shiners spawning?

Started by Moontanman , Dec 07 2014 05:29 PM

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#1 Moontanman

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 05:29 PM

I have two red lipped shiners who have suddenly become almost neon bright, one is flat out beautiful, with intense red across his body and fins the other is fatter with just intense red fins, could these fish be spawning? They have a small depression partially under a rock in a back corner of the tank they have dug out with swimming motions.

Spawning or just odd behavior?

Michael

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#2 gerald

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Wake Forest, North Carolina

Posted 07 December 2014 - 06:00 PM

Sounds possible. Like all Hydrophlox group shiners, they usually they spawn on gravel mounds (chub nests) but in a tank with no chub they might do anything. The dug out depression was probably accidental; they're not known to dig pits.

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#3 Moontanman

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Posted 07 December 2014 - 06:29 PM

Sounds possible. Like all Hydrophlox group shiners, they usually they spawn on gravel mounds (chub nests) but in a tank with no chub they might do anything. The dug out depression was probably accidental; they're not known to dig pits.

I've been watching them the pit is just incidental to their increased activity.

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#4 Moontanman

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Posted 08 December 2014 - 11:01 AM

They have returned to their normal colors and behavior, no idea what got into them..

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#5 Josh Blaylock

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Posted 08 December 2014 - 11:59 AM

This happened to me with a group of Saffron Shiners. They got all fired up over in a corner of my tank. This went on for a day or so, then it stopped.

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#6 Michael Wolfe

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North Georgia, Oconee River Drainage

Posted 08 December 2014 - 02:44 PM

They have returned to their normal colors and behavior, no idea what got into them..

We've talked a lot about this before with other Hydrophlox shiners. Sometimes it only takes a good meal or a cold water change.

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#7 Moontanman

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Posted 08 December 2014 - 02:59 PM

This happened to me with a group of Saffron Shiners. They got all fired up over in a corner of my tank. This went on for a day or so, then it stopped.