40 breeder
#1
Posted 25 April 2020 - 07:43 PM
#2
Posted 27 April 2020 - 10:04 AM
I would encourage you to stock minnows and shiners. If you do add some darters, you may want to add them slowly. They don't do well with flake foods and don't compete well with shiners. You will need to feed them frozen foods and get them down to the darters. A turkey baster works.
The member formerly known as Skipjack
#3
Posted 29 April 2020 - 06:17 AM
Agreed. I recently converted my 75 gallon into a dace/mosquitofish/madtom tank and enjoy it far more than I did its previous iteration as a "sunfish" tank. My experience with sunfish is not unlike keeping large central American cichlids -- any "community" you have one day, is not necessarily the community you have the next. It's remarkable honestly - you can literally go for months without issue and suddenly flip the lights on and boom. That's just the nature of larger sunfish kept in tanks that fit most American homes.
The older I get the more I appreciate watching lots of small fish swim around.
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