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#21 smbass

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Posted 09 February 2015 - 01:59 PM

Yes spottails do just fine in an aquarium I have one now in my stream tank. Unfortunately most of the native bottom dwellers are gone from Lake Erie. There used to be a lot of Channel Darters, along the beaches and shores of the lake. There are also longnose dace along rocky shorelines, these still occur but in very low numbers(Might as well be gone). Greenside, Fantail, Iowa, Eastern Sand and River darters are used to occur in Lake Erie. The one darter that has persisted with the gobies in the lake is Logperch but there use to be a lot more.

Brian J. Zimmerman

Gambier, Ohio - Kokosing River Drainage


#22 Sean Phillips

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Posted 10 February 2015 - 11:26 AM

Found another picture, just to make sure.Attached File  image.jpg   73.64KB   0 downloads
Sean Phillips - Pine Creek Watershed - Allegheny River Drainage

#23 smbass

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Posted 10 February 2015 - 12:10 PM

Yeah that looks like a nice big spottail shiner.

Brian J. Zimmerman

Gambier, Ohio - Kokosing River Drainage


#24 sschluet

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Posted 21 February 2015 - 07:36 AM

Definitely spottail shiner. I have never attempted to keep them in a tank. A note of caution Lake Erie is VHS positive.
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Central NY

#25 Sean Phillips

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Posted 21 February 2015 - 10:47 AM

Definitely spottail shiner. I have never attempted to keep them in a tank. A note of caution Lake Erie is VHS positive.


Oh I know, I've caught some fish out of there with VHS and they're not pretty. Though in my experience, it's not as severe as it's supposed to be, at least where I fish and snorkel.
Sean Phillips - Pine Creek Watershed - Allegheny River Drainage

#26 Evan P

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Posted 21 February 2015 - 02:01 PM

I've always wanted to do a biotope based around the longnose dace that have adapted to the lake. They are a really neat species and different from what I usually find in streams. Using a reef tank wavemaker and having a rock shore up one side of the tank would make for a really cool tank.


3,000-4,000 Gallon Pond Full of all sorts of spawning fishes! http://forum.nanfa.org/index.php/topic/13811-3560-gallon-native-fish-pond/page-3 
 

#27 Evan P

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Posted 21 February 2015 - 02:03 PM

Also, for a bottom dweller, you could try sculpin. Be careful, though; they could eat the rest of your stock if they are much bigger than the tankmates.


3,000-4,000 Gallon Pond Full of all sorts of spawning fishes! http://forum.nanfa.org/index.php/topic/13811-3560-gallon-native-fish-pond/page-3 
 

#28 Sean Phillips

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Posted 21 February 2015 - 02:47 PM

I've always wanted to do a biotope based around the longnose dace that have adapted to the lake. They are a really neat species and different from what I usually find in streams. Using a reef tank wavemaker and having a rock shore up one side of the tank would make for a really cool tank.


That's kind of what I was thinking of doing. I know the shoreline very well from snorkeling all over the lake since I was very young and was going to have a natural sand bottom with a gradule shore-like rock slope. A sculpin sounds like a good idea until it gets to large, but then those spottail shiners are pretty large up there as well.
Sean Phillips - Pine Creek Watershed - Allegheny River Drainage

#29 Chasmodes

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Posted 21 February 2015 - 06:36 PM

Sounds like a cool tank idea!


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