We have a couple dozen redfin shiners stocked on top of pumpkinseed, redear and warmouth in a quarry. The shiner appears to spawn over nest of all three sunfish species. Has anyone seen redfins in action over nest other than longear or green sunfish?
Redfin Shiner New Host?
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, May 23 2009 08:27 AM
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Posted 23 May 2009 - 11:03 AM
They don't seem to be real picky, so long as there's flushed gravel. While I've not specifically found them over pumpkinseed nests, I've found them over sucker scours a month to 6 weeks after the suckers had returned to wherever. Next spring we're going to try and document this quantitatively.
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Posted 23 May 2009 - 11:13 PM
I have seen them using both pumpkinseed and warmouth nests in an artificial situation. I also had them spawn without any nest host in a rubber lined pond. I would say Todd's observation of them not being picky is accurate. I have them in a pond with o-spots for this summer, only time will tell how that works out.
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 03:55 PM
We have found redfin shiner fry emerging from a sample of warmouth prolarvae indicated earlier in this thread. Spawning site was organic material / sediment only, no gravel. Spawning was observed direclty over nest located in organic deposits, not at random.
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