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Banded Sunfish with smallish minnows
#1
Posted 25 November 2019 - 05:33 PM
I currently have rainbow shiners and fundulus cingulatus in my 55 gallon. I would like to add banded sunfish this spring but I am unfamiliar with their temperament. Ill go a different direction if they are incompatible.
#2
Posted 26 November 2019 - 05:49 PM
That should work OK. Banded sunfish males do fight with each other, but I don't think they'll consider shiners as a threat worth chasing.
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
#4
Posted 27 November 2019 - 11:39 AM
That should work OK. Banded sunfish males do fight with each other, but I don't think they'll consider shiners as a threat worth chasing.
One of my bluespots was living happily with one of those 1.5 inch mudminnows you sent me... until one day while I was feeding mysis and the mudimmow charged out to eat some and so did the bluespot and he turned and inhaled the mudminnow (all but the tail).
Maybe it was a feeding frenzy, but given the opportunity... if it fits, we eats it.
#5
Posted 27 November 2019 - 12:07 PM
One of my bluespots was living happily with one of those 1.5 inch mudminnows you sent me... until one day while I was feeding mysis and the mudimmow charged out to eat some and so did the bluespot and he turned and inhaled the mudminnow (all but the tail).
Maybe it was a feeding frenzy, but given the opportunity... if it fits, we eats it.
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