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shrimp and darters

Started by Guest_bart_* , Jan 29 2010 11:13 AM

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#1 Guest_bart_*

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Posted 29 January 2010 - 11:13 AM

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried keeping amano or a similar shrimp with darters. I would imagine some of the bigger darters would harass them pretty bad but what about little guys like swamp, glassy, sawcheek, or iowa darters?

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#2 Guest_Newt_*

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Posted 29 January 2010 - 11:20 AM

I have kept central grass shrimp (Palaemonetes kadakiensis), which probably average a bit smaller than Amanos, with swamp and slough darters. I never saw any negative interactions. Most of the slackwater darters have very small mouths; they might eat juvenile shrimp but adults and subadults would be safe. My guys couldn't even take female scuds (~1/2" long).

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#3 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 29 January 2010 - 11:32 AM

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried keeping amano or a similar shrimp with darters. I would imagine some of the bigger darters would harass them pretty bad but what about little guys like swamp, glassy, sawcheek, or iowa darters?

I know that bigger darters (bluebreast in my case) will chase and harass even full sized ghost shrimp (feeders from the local fish store). They have a hard time eating them... but they will bite and shake them. Haven't witnessed that behaviour with swamps, but they do agressively hunt anything that moves...

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#4 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 29 January 2010 - 11:45 AM

Oh, I see what you mean, slack water darters vs. slackwater darters. The latter is a federally Threatened species. But we're talking about darters in slow-moving water. Phew!

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#5 Guest_bart_*

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Posted 29 January 2010 - 10:14 PM

Thanks for the replies everybody! I may give it a shot if I come up with some good stuff in VA in a few weeks. I currently have 1 swamp darter I don't know what to do with. The obvious choice would be throw him in the planted mudminnow tank. However, when the biggest muddy in the tank makes a big yawn, my wee swampy could easily fit right in there. :shock:

And on a related note, how many slackwater darters could I fit on a cracker? :laugh:

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#6 Guest_lozgod_*

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Posted 30 January 2010 - 12:21 AM

I had about 12 darters in my 75 gallon with several ghost shrimp. I had fantail, logperch, rainbow, and greenside darters and never seen any negative interactions.