I have a 75 gallon tank filled with about 40 gallons. I'm using two internal power filters to create a stream like water current. Right now I have about 25 white cloud mountain minnows and 1 cherry red shrimp in the tank. The tank's temp varies between 71 and 74F. I would like to add a few darters to this tank. Would my minnows become darter snacks?
darters with white cloud mountain minnows?
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Posted 30 March 2009 - 01:02 AM
T/A,
I would say, for the most part, "no". The vast majority of darters are going to have mouths too small to consume your Mountain Minnows. Baby Red Cherry Shrimp might be a snack for the darters, though.
Brian
I would say, for the most part, "no". The vast majority of darters are going to have mouths too small to consume your Mountain Minnows. Baby Red Cherry Shrimp might be a snack for the darters, though.
Brian
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Posted 30 March 2009 - 02:13 PM
Sounds good to me, thanks. I was even thinking my adult shrimp might be in danger. But I can always set up one of my smaller tanks for the lone shrimp if needed. Now I just have to figure out if I want to purchase the darters or buy a fishing license and try to collect some(if that's even possible in my area). Still doing research on that. I'm planning on 4 or 5 darters for this tank, any problems with that many?
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Posted 30 March 2009 - 03:55 PM
My 75 has around 25 darters in it right now, along with emerald shiners, redbelly dace, and blacknose dace. No problem, though I do have double filtration on it, and plenty of rocks and overhangs for them to hide under or perch on. Only the fantails like to stay under a rock, most of them are quite the exhibitionists.
I believe you have some interesting darters in southern PA, definitely worth going for a look. Finding them is at least half of the fun, anyway.
I believe you have some interesting darters in southern PA, definitely worth going for a look. Finding them is at least half of the fun, anyway.
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 09:15 PM
I have a similar question...I have a heavily planted 10 gallon tank with a bunch of white clouds, and I wanted to add a swamp darter or two. However, I also have some shrimp in there--3 red cherry shrimp, 2 amano shrimp and 3 ghost shrimp. Would swamp darters harass/eat the adult shrimp? I don't really care if it eats any minnow fry or baby shrimp, I just want to be sure they'll leave the adult shrimp alone.
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Posted 02 April 2009 - 04:09 PM
I have whisker shrimp in with both swamp and rainbow darters and they seem to get along fine in my ten gallonI have a similar question...I have a heavily planted 10 gallon tank with a bunch of white clouds, and I wanted to add a swamp darter or two. However, I also have some shrimp in there--3 red cherry shrimp, 2 amano shrimp and 3 ghost shrimp. Would swamp darters harass/eat the adult shrimp? I don't really care if it eats any minnow fry or baby shrimp, I just want to be sure they'll leave the adult shrimp alone.
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Posted 02 April 2009 - 06:07 PM
I have whisker shrimp in with both swamp and rainbow darters and they seem to get along fine in my ten gallon
That's good. I had a Whisker shrimp for a while, but she died recently. :( She was pretty big and all the other shrimp are still healthy and active, so I'm assuming it was old age. Anyway, I think I'll try some darters in the 10 gallon and see how it goes.
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