Bait tank refugees...
#1 Guest_Nightwing_*
Posted 04 January 2008 - 08:17 PM
So...my intent was to hopefully find a couple of stonerollers or darters..but what I DID find, was something I posted about a few days ago, a pair of killies, I think.
What do you guys think?
#5 Guest_Nightwing_*
Posted 04 January 2008 - 10:48 PM
Our minnow guy is local, and I'll have to ask him where he trapped that batch. I also found several very small perch, and a rockbass in there(put those in the filter tank, thinking maybe they will make it until I can find a home for them!)
#6 Guest_Nightwing_*
Posted 04 January 2008 - 10:52 PM
fundulus.... not that it's likely wise to argue killies with a guy who uses fundulus as a username, but these came from some nearby water in Michigan...and if what I read is correct, that's a long way from home for lined. Should have been more clear where they came from, sorry!They look like half-starved lined topminnows, Fundulus lineolatus.
#10 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 05 January 2008 - 12:09 AM
#11 Guest_smbass_*
Posted 05 January 2008 - 12:39 AM
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#12 Guest_Nightwing_*
Posted 05 January 2008 - 12:47 AM
Considering they were "living" in a bait tank, and prior to that, who knows how long they were held without any food...their condition does not surprise me! I'll have to keep an eye on the tank...the fishing guy today said the "little bass minnows"(they thought they were bass!), show up all the time. I hope to end up with a half dozen or so.
#15 Guest_BTDarters_*
Posted 05 January 2008 - 04:15 AM
I'd have to second (or is it third at this point?) the vote for Fundulus diaphanus menona. I collect F. notatus, F. diaphanus menona, and F. dispar in your neighboring state of Wisconsin. The fish you have pictured look exactly like the diaphanus I collect. Also, if there's any question of the ID being between the diaphanus and the dispar, the dispar have a "teardrop" under the eye, whereas the diaphanus do not...if I remember correctly. Any taxonomists out there to back me up??
#17 Guest_butch_*
Posted 05 January 2008 - 09:58 AM
Wish I lives near any water that contain the fundulus species. I tried look for the killies. At last you don't have to wade in the water, where you can find some hitchhikers in the baitwell especially the killies.
#19 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 05 January 2008 - 10:14 AM
#20 Guest_smilingfrog_*
Posted 06 January 2008 - 02:24 AM
Wish I lives near any water that contain the fundulus species.
Butch,
Each spring Minnesota NANFA members and the Minnesota Aquarium Society have a "Darter Hunt" and we always get plenty of banded killifish at one of the lakes we go to. Not sure where exactly you are in Minnesota, but the lake is in the Stillwater area if that's not too far. Not to pressure you or anything, but if you haven't already joined NANFA, the darter hunt itself is well worth it.
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