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Posted 24 February 2007 - 10:56 PM

Just found your great website tonight quite by accident. I'm interested in native minnows. Are there any colorful or interesting minnows to be found in local bait stores?

My kids brought home some school carnival rosie red minnows back in the fall. Out of 3, we still have one and it seems to be thriving. The dreaded carnival fish started this whole fish thing...

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Posted 24 February 2007 - 11:00 PM

Just found your great website tonight quite by accident. I'm interested in native minnows. Are there any colorful or interesting minnows to be found in local bait stores?

My kids brought home some school carnival rosie red minnows back in the fall. Out of 3, we still have one and it seems to be thriving. The dreaded carnival fish started this whole fish thing...


Absolutely! The thing is, you never quite know what you're going to get, or if it even comes from your local area.

It gets really fun when you and your kids head down to the local stream with some nets and buckets and see just how gorgeous the fish in your own back yard can be.

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 03:45 AM

If you have a good enough relationship with your bait shop many will let you go through their tanks. I was lucky enough to be able to do that several years ago. I would regularly catch things like brook stickleback, various sunfish species, and grass pike from my local store. If you do a search there are several posts on how you can sometimes get natives from your local big box pet store in ghost shrimp and feeder tanks occasinoally also.

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 10:27 AM

look around for a seine net you catch loads of stuff you never even knew you had in the creeks

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Posted 26 February 2007 - 11:46 AM

It is a good idea to put any fish obtained from a bait store in a quarantine tank to make sure you don't infect your tank with any diseases. Bait fish are often kept in overcrowded, unsanitarty condidtions. I've recently lost 2 tanks of fish this way due to a head-rotting fungus or bacterial infection that some silver shiners from Gander Mountain brought with them.

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 03:55 PM

All the PetsMart stores I've been to sell rosy red fathead minnows if are trying to find some more of those.

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 07:16 PM

Thanks. I have seen rosies for 12 cents each there. I am interesred in getting some native minnows or shiners at some point.

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 07:51 PM

I have 5 very large rosey reds in my 55g that do just fine with the more agressive fish say 5 large rainbows (the ones from new guina) 2 sunfish a red eye bass and many more much larger stuff



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