I am trying to find out more information on mudminnows. I am interested in their aquarium behavior and where they like to reside in an aquarium (bottom, middle, top, etc). Do they hide or are they active???
Any comments would be much appreciated.
Are mudminnows compatible with top minnows?
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Mudminnows
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, Oct 15 2007 06:21 PM
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Posted 16 October 2007 - 06:55 PM
The central mudminnows I've kept have occupied all parts of the aquarium. I've had no problems in community situations but I made sure that I didn't introduce fish that could fit in the mouths of the mudminnows. I keep them with topminnows without incident. They can be trained to eat frozen food easily and dry food with a little effort.
My fish didn't seem to hide much and seemed to always be moderately active. Never hyperactive but would occasionally just hang out in the plants/structure.
I think they have decent personality and a fish I'd recommend to anyone interested.
My fish didn't seem to hide much and seemed to always be moderately active. Never hyperactive but would occasionally just hang out in the plants/structure.
I think they have decent personality and a fish I'd recommend to anyone interested.
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Posted 16 October 2007 - 07:49 PM
When you first get them, they hide all the time, but then they seem to recognize you and realize you bring food.
Mine is similar to pufferfish because it sometimes begs for food, but in a subtle way. It sits under the lily pad and faces me, and when I open the top, he looks up and goes straight up to the surface.
They are easily trained to eat frozen foods. I just dangled it on a piece of straw and moved it a little.
Mine is similar to pufferfish because it sometimes begs for food, but in a subtle way. It sits under the lily pad and faces me, and when I open the top, he looks up and goes straight up to the surface.
They are easily trained to eat frozen foods. I just dangled it on a piece of straw and moved it a little.
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Posted 16 October 2007 - 09:23 PM
I've had an eastern mudminnow for almost a year now. I find them to be pretty fascinating fish. Their behavior is much different from a sunfish, minnow, darter, etc. My experience was similar to that of sumthinsfishy6. There were times when I didn’t see the fish for up to three weeks. It would hide in an artificial tree stump that I had in my 50 gallon tank. It has now learned to associate my presence with food and I see it all of the time. I’ve never seen the other sunfish or minnows in my tank show aggression towards it and vice versa. It pretty much keeps to itself and avoids all the other fish in my tank, which makes it seem like an outcast. The fish mainly hangs out on the bottom of the tank except when feeding. During feeding it will swim up into the water column paddling its pectoral fins back and forth (doggy paddle style), attempting to snatch the leftover blackworms that the minnows missed.
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Posted 17 October 2007 - 12:05 AM
I replied in the other thread, but I'll repeat here that my experience is that they are not at all wall flowers, but at the same time, not in your face. They are personality loaded, and you really should have more then one to watch them interact and posture. Mine do tend to hang in cover when not otherwise occupied "up to something"..but they are always on the move, finning around and I swear playing...
As in the other post..I'll relate that one of them likes to carry empty snail shells around, and another takes the things(empty shells) up into the outflow of my filter, and lets go of them and chases them(or..looses it's grip, but I prefer to think it's letting go!).
Not a clue what the behavior really represents..but it LOOKS for all the world like play!
As in the other post..I'll relate that one of them likes to carry empty snail shells around, and another takes the things(empty shells) up into the outflow of my filter, and lets go of them and chases them(or..looses it's grip, but I prefer to think it's letting go!).
Not a clue what the behavior really represents..but it LOOKS for all the world like play!
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Posted 15 January 2008 - 06:32 PM
Hi,
I have had mine since early spring 2007. I found them as hatchlings in a local pond. They have since grown rapidly and are very facinating to watch (they are basically small versions of pickerel or pike)! They aren't very friendly to one another, they tend to squabble over food so i feed them all over the tank surface instead of just at one spot. I would highly recommend them especially to someone who would love to keep a pike like fish but doesn't have the space.
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I have had mine since early spring 2007. I found them as hatchlings in a local pond. They have since grown rapidly and are very facinating to watch (they are basically small versions of pickerel or pike)! They aren't very friendly to one another, they tend to squabble over food so i feed them all over the tank surface instead of just at one spot. I would highly recommend them especially to someone who would love to keep a pike like fish but doesn't have the space.
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Posted 16 January 2008 - 09:17 PM
No offense to the pike and pickerel people on the list..but I find them to have much more "personality" then either of those. In many way's their mannerisms are indeed similar...but they appear much more "active" and inquisitive, and while my experience with pike is that they don't do a whole lot of anything unless they are chasing food, these guys seem to be constantly on the move, poking around. Maybe I've just not seen "active" pike, but that's just my impression.
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