Has anyone successfully kept Erimyzon? I would like to try keeping them. Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Brian

I think the jury is still kinda out on whether they can be kept in good health in captivity (see thread http://forum.nanfa.o...;hl=chubsucker) but a number of us have kept them in the past for reasonable periods of time. I would say that while not real flashy, they are a peaceful, attractive, and interesting tank inhabitant.

Edited by Kanus, 26 September 2008 - 11:50 AM.

BG Granier has raised E. tenuis to a HUGE size. I have kept oblongus for a spell, but they don't really do much for me. They went into the Tank O' Death.

Has anyone successfully kept Erimyzon? I would like to try keeping them. Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Brian

I've got a couple and have had them in the past. One currently has been around about two or three years. Started out at about a half incher now about 4 inches. Feed live black worms, freezedried plankton and bloodworms, pellets, flakes. I also have him in a deep sand bed tank ala "Todd Crail" when I switched to that type of tank it seemed to make a huge difference.

Oh I forgot to mention we caught several nice specimens at the Texas convention though they were protected in TX and were returned to the creek.

Edited by keepnatives, 29 September 2008 - 12:49 PM.

I have 2 of the three species and some of them I have had for about 3 years and they have grown up to small adult size. I actually had 2 males get breeding turbicles on them back in the spring and they tried to spawn with a river chub... I didn't have any females in the tank though. In my opinion there really is not much to keeping them, they just need a lot of food which means you either have to put a lot in the tank or keep them with other fish that are not aggressive feeders. They will eat just about anything, I actually have had no trouble at all getting young ones to feed and grow well, I actually just feed them flake food and frozen blood worms most of the time.