Can these live in fresh water? Reason I ask is because I have a pair that are in a fresh water tank and I'm wondering if this is harming them in any way.
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, Sep 11 2007 11:33 PM
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Posted 12 September 2007 - 08:24 AM
Yeah, they can survive in freshwater especially if the water is fairly hard. But they'll never breed in freshwater. Mummichogs might be the toughest fish I've ever dealt with.
OK. So if I want to breed them what should the salt concentration be? Does it have to vary to simulate tidal cycles?
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Posted 12 September 2007 - 10:59 AM
I used to catch them out of brackish tidal water and I know they run up the freshwater rivers hiding out along all the rocky edges, we'd catch them pretty far up too. I know they spawn in the summer months June, July, August. As really young kids we'd catch them then sell them to the local bait store for like a .25 a piece. I wonder how legal that was now that I think of it. 
When you buy the from the bait store they come in a card box box filled with wet seaweed. They'd last pretty long, great for kids on bikes trying to fish from pond to pond.
When you buy the from the bait store they come in a card box box filled with wet seaweed. They'd last pretty long, great for kids on bikes trying to fish from pond to pond.
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Posted 12 September 2007 - 12:20 PM
For breeding I'd say they need 20 ppt of salt or more. In nature they usually spawn on a spring (high) tide on the floor of a salt marsh, so it's a pulse of saltier water moving up into the marsh. But, fish do what fish do, and mummichogs are among the most adaptable and versatile species.
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