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Posted 19 December 2006 - 11:31 AM

Well, I broke down and bought a dwarf sturgeon. I tried to resist but my roommate paid for half and it's in "his" tank.

I haven't found any info on these guys. I hear they get about 3 feet.

So far he's eating small leaf worms, frozen blood worms, and small pieces of raw, thawed shrimp.

He's about 4 inches long and is very active. What I don't get are his swimming patterns. They seem pretty erratic or almost spastic. I would think that sturgeons use their sense of smell but he doesn't show it.

He's in a 210 with about 18 Golden Shiners, 2 2" pumpkinseeds, 1 2" Lg. Mouth, 1 2" bullhead, a few rosies, and about a dozen female (not by choice) mosquito fish.

I'll get a pic soon and update with any info for people that are interested.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks,
Ben

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Posted 19 December 2006 - 04:10 PM

I have kept a Dwarf Sturgeon for about a month. The fish was very active and almost never was found near the substrate in the tank. I have no idea why. The fish was very nervous too, it would jump almost evertime I appraoched the tank. The fish was an "okay" addition to the aquarium just because it was very different. It never got any big but the only recommendation I can give is to - have a good lid on that tank.

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Posted 19 December 2006 - 06:43 PM

Please see the Aquatic predators thread:
http://aquaticpredat...mp;#entry312939

Sturgeon are holoarctic in distrubution and are found throughout the northern hemisphere. Not all are North American and many of the aquacultured fish available are eurasian.

As in the above mentioned thread:
Can you get a photo so an ID can be obtained........

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Posted 22 December 2006 - 08:44 PM

I have kept a Dwarf Sturgeon for about a month. The fish was very active and almost never was found near the substrate in the tank. I have no idea why. The fish was very nervous too, it would jump almost evertime I appraoched the tank. The fish was an "okay" addition to the aquarium just because it was very different. It never got any big but the only recommendation I can give is to - have a good lid on that tank.


The local zoo here has reject shortnose sturgeon on display. These fish never rest on the bottom and are in constant motion, rarely near the bottow. They have also lost several 3-4 ft fish from them jumping over the top of the tank. This does not look so good considering the federal permits required to keep these fish in the first place, stunted rejects or not. I think they move this way because they perceive that they do not have adequate space and are thus always looking for higher ground so to speak. Sturgeon, in my opinion, are very poor aquarium specimens and should only be kept in the largest of public aquarium tanks.

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:47 PM

Or ponds

Sterlets-a type of freshwater Eurasian sturgeon- are popular pond fish in Europe- especially the albino ones.

A Beluga or white sturgeon might be out of the question though.................

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Posted 09 July 2007 - 04:07 PM

http://www.nanfa.org...sturgeons.shtml

This article should be useful.

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 08:30 PM

Well, I broke down and bought a dwarf sturgeon. I tried to resist but my roommate paid for half and it's in "his" tank.

I haven't found any info on these guys. I hear they get about 3 feet.

So far he's eating small leaf worms, frozen blood worms, and small pieces of raw, thawed shrimp.

He's about 4 inches long and is very active. What I don't get are his swimming patterns. They seem pretty erratic or almost spastic. I would think that sturgeons use their sense of smell but he doesn't show it.

He's in a 210 with about 18 Golden Shiners, 2 2" pumpkinseeds, 1 2" Lg. Mouth, 1 2" bullhead, a few rosies, and about a dozen female (not by choice) mosquito fish.

I'll get a pic soon and update with any info for people that are interested.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks,
Ben

my axelrodbook as some info on it
earthworms snails tubifex are preferred will also accept frozen food
also said that they rarely stop moving and said the get 1 meter in nature but rarely get over a foot in length in captivity
-The Encylopedia of Freshwater Tropical Fishes
Axelrod H.

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Posted 08 September 2007 - 06:54 PM

I have kept a Dwarf Sturgeon for about a month. The fish was very active and almost never was found near the substrate in the tank. I have no idea why. The fish was very nervous too, it would jump almost evertime I appraoched the tank. The fish was an "okay" addition to the aquarium just because it was very different. It never got any big but the only recommendation I can give is to - have a good lid on that tank.


What do you mean by dwarf sturgeon? What species? I know that in europe they were developing some small or oddly shaped sturgeon sutible for ponds or maybe very large aquariums. I am looking for shovelnose sturgeon or small paddlefish or eventually (you know like if I win the lotto) developinging a very small variously colored sturgeon, paddlefish, freshwater ray or maybe a freshwater shark. I once Lowered the salinity of a small pond in my greenhouse containing an atlantic sharpnose shark to almost totally fresh 4.375% over a period of a month, The water turned an odd shade of green but the shark did ok. I feed him small shrimps and small mullets. Actually the shark in the pool never really proved anything. Most sharks can survive lowered salinity for short periods of time..

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Posted 05 November 2007 - 12:20 PM

What do you mean by dwarf sturgeon? What species? I know that in europe they were developing some small or oddly shaped sturgeon sutible for ponds or maybe very large aquariums. I am looking for shovelnose sturgeon or small paddlefish or eventually (you know like if I win the lotto) developinging a very small variously colored sturgeon, paddlefish, freshwater ray or maybe a freshwater shark. I once Lowered the salinity of a small pond in my greenhouse containing an atlantic sharpnose shark to almost totally fresh 4.375% over a period of a month, The water turned an odd shade of green but the shark did ok. I feed him small shrimps and small mullets. Actually the shark in the pool never really proved anything. Most sharks can survive lowered salinity for short periods of time..



Unfortunately it was before I researched fish very much. I actually have no idea what type of Sturgeon it was. I have no pictures of it, and it was probably 6-7 years ago. Sorry.



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