I know this is an old thread but I just got six eastern mudminnows yesterday. I had left the lights off to let them acclimate. I cam home form work today and turned on the lights. I gave them and our or so to get use dot the light. Then I grabbed a nice handful of java moss out of my scud culture tank and put it in with the mud minnows. Nothing for a few minutes until the scuds started swimming around a bit. These little guys are fierce. They wnet into the attack stance as in the picture and would pursue a scud all over the tank to catch it. Awesome little fish. I am looking forward to observing their behavior.
I recently acquired a handful of mudminnows with the help of Ed Bihary and I would agree. I love how they motor up to the food and pounce. Kinda silly looking. I would recommend mudminnows to anyone, they are great.
yeah the one i had in my open top 5 gal tank jumped out.
two of them i had in my 55 gal tank got eaten by my crawfish, and the 3rd one i had in my 55 gal got picked on by my sunfish and would not eat and just died one day.
When I was a kid I had a mystery fish that I caught and kept. I'm begining to think it was a mudminnow. I losy him when he jumped out, also. Mine stayed at the surface. Mainly in the front of the tank and would eat a pinch of flakes from my fingers. Cool little pike like fish. Sound like a mudminnow?
mudminnows are more of a bottom fish, so i doubt that it was a mudminnow (although one member on here had mudminnows that would grab empty shells, drop them in the current of the filter and chase them
my mudminnows (central) prefer to stay right at the surface, although sometimes they hang around near the bottom. I would say that the majority of my mudminnow experience places them right at the surface.
my mudminnows stayed right at the surface a good deal of the time, or just hovering somewhere mid-water-column. they also stayed at the bottom a lot too. if it looked like a mudminnow it probably was.
I'm pretty convinced it was. I caught it in a killie trap with a ton of killies. Then it lived in my tropical 20gal comunity tank till it jumped out. thanks