Redside Dace (clinostomus Elongatus)

Hi all, I'm a researcher looking to start a project on the Redside Dace, which sadly made it onto the endangered species list in Canada this summer. I'm hoping to help eventually set up a highly effective supportive breeding program for them.

I'm wondering if anyone here has tried to keep them in captivity before? I'm looking for information on their care and I figured forums like this would be the place to find some people with a lot of knowledge and hands-on experience. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!

Hi all, I'm a researcher looking to start a project on the Redside Dace, which sadly made it onto the endangered species list in Canada this summer. I'm hoping to help eventually set up a highly effective supportive breeding program for them.

I'm wondering if anyone here has tried to keep them in captivity before? I'm looking for information on their care and I figured forums like this would be the place to find some people with a lot of knowledge and hands-on experience. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!

I have 2 in my 55 gallon, they seem to do ok on flake food .

Hi all, I'm a researcher looking to start a project on the Redside Dace, which sadly made it onto the endangered species list in Canada this summer. I'm hoping to help eventually set up a highly effective supportive breeding program for them.

I'm wondering if anyone here has tried to keep them in captivity before? I'm looking for information on their care and I figured forums like this would be the place to find some people with a lot of knowledge and hands-on experience. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!

I have some information you may be interested in and I'm also interested in your project as these fish are also endangered here in Michigan. I am hoping (it is still in it's infancy) to try to captive maintain a group of the Michigan 'genotype' fish for future work myself. please contact me by PM and lets talk

Brian Zimmerman (SMBASS on the fourm) I believe can also help you much. of which if you see this Brian copy me in on any info as well. I've been meaning to get in touch with you about this.

Hi all, I'm a researcher looking to start a project on the Redside Dace, which sadly made it onto the endangered species list in Canada this summer. I'm hoping to help eventually set up a highly effective supportive breeding program for them.

I'm wondering if anyone here has tried to keep them in captivity before? I'm looking for information on their care and I figured forums like this would be the place to find some people with a lot of knowledge and hands-on experience. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!

I tried keeping them just this spring. Only one out of 3 or so survived. I was trying to acclimate them too fast. The one I have currently I acclimated overnight in the water I caught it in and it is doing fine now. I hope to collect and try out some more. I only have experiance with the one but once acclimated they seem fairly hardy, it survived some warm days this past summer with no problem and it will eat anything it can fit in it's mouth, all kinds of flakes and pellets etc.

What kind of temperature profile are you using in the tank?

I have a school of 8 or so in my 150 and they are very hardy. The water got up into the 80's this summer and I did not lose any. They are very good jumpers and I lost a few to the floor the first week they were in captiveity. They eat anything I put in the tank. My kids get a kick out of killing flies and throwing them in the tank. You should see the dace shot up and grab them, usually get splash in the face with water. All in all a nice aquarium fish.
Herschel

My tank got up to 80 F in the summer and has gotten as low as 65 F recently.

I think you may be the same person that recently got in contact with me through work (OSU Fish Museum), but anyways, I did my masters research on Redside Dace and have temperature profile data collected in streams with healthy populations on an hourly basis for several months through the warmest part of the summer. I also observed a couple of spawning events and could describe those for you in more detail over the phone if your interested. Anyways I am prety sure your the same guy that already contacted me so just keep in touch and I'm more than happy to help.

Brian