Sucker raising thread.
#1 Guest_lozgod_*
Posted 09 October 2009 - 10:52 PM
I have a white aka common sucker aka Catostomus commersonii. He has definitely grown some since I added him to the tank. Looking thicker. Not the most aggressive feeder in the tank by a long shot. It was a concern at first because I have two Pingi Logsuckers in there that are aggressive bottom feeders. It is getting its fair share and when really hungry will put up a fight.
I have blackworms in the substrate that everything but the sucker will eat. The sucker's primary choices are wafers and frozen daphnia. It will actually swim around and eat the daphnia directly out of the water column vs eating it off the bottom. The wafers I feed my fish aren't just algae. They are a combo enriched wafer. A guy that lives local to me has an Ebay non brick and mortar fish store. I bought a light off of him on Ebay and went to his house to pick it up and he gave me a sample of the wafers. The fish love them and appear to be doing well on them so I plan on going back and buying some. When I get them I will post more info.
Anyone else got $0.02 to add?
Also I have a question. Does anyone have any idea on inches per year I can expect it to grow? I have a friend with a backyard pond I can put it in when it outgrows the tank (when it hits 6-7 inches I will remove it). Right now it is about 3 inches long.
#2 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 10 October 2009 - 04:39 AM
He liked eating shrimp pellets, but he was so timid he'd run from other fish and from me adding pellets near him, I had to overfeed to keep him fed.
#6 Guest_smbass_*
Posted 24 February 2011 - 05:08 PM
#7
Posted 24 February 2011 - 05:11 PM
Well not any tank... I mean hogsuckers get huge...I currently keep 2 Northern Hog Suckers. Very awesome and under appreciated suckers. I would suggest some of them to any native tank.
How long have you had these two? In what size tank?
#8 Guest_AOmonsta_*
Posted 24 February 2011 - 06:23 PM
I've had one for a little over a month and the other for about a week. One is about 6" the other about 9"Well not any tank... I mean hogsuckers get huge...
How long have you had these two? In what size tank?
I have them in my 150g. They actually are not slow eaters. Once they see the food hit the bottom they go after it.
#9 Guest_smbass_*
Posted 25 February 2011 - 10:17 AM
#10 Guest_UncleWillie_*
Posted 27 February 2011 - 09:00 PM
#12 Guest_D_Wilkins_*
Posted 03 March 2011 - 03:48 PM
#13 Guest_itsme_*
Posted 03 March 2011 - 05:00 PM
What is the purpose of these sounds? As a warning? To scare predators? To roust prey from the substrate? Boredom?
#14 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 03 March 2011 - 06:59 PM
Don't know how easy or hard they are to keep, but they can live in quite warm streams.
Mark - your noisy suckers may have been grinding up snails with their phayngeal teeth.
I'm sure Dr. Jenkins will tell us more about their vocal communications.
#15 Guest_Drew_*
Posted 03 March 2011 - 08:31 PM
Just wait til y'all see the Torrent Sucker in VA this May: that's my favorite, stays small, very common in the James basin.
Don't know how easy or hard they are to keep, but they can live in quite warm streams.
Mine didn't last very long in a community tank full of hungry mouths. There wasn't enough for them to graze on I'm guessing.
#16 Guest_smbass_*
Posted 03 March 2011 - 11:00 PM
#17 Guest_UncleWillie_*
Posted 04 March 2011 - 02:12 PM
#18 Guest_jacksmelt_*
Posted 27 December 2012 - 08:28 PM
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