Soon I began to notice that they were bumping into the darters a lot. It
wasn't nipping....more like the fish version of our, "You gonna' eat that?"
It finally occurred to me that the dace had probably never even seen a
darter before, and I'm guessing that they were checking to see if the
stationary fishes in front of them were alive or not.
Eventually I had to move the darters out to another tank. They were getting
so thin it was obvious that they were not going to be able to compete with
the speckled dace for food. Sure enough, in the new tank, where there was
no competition for food at the gravel level, they filled right back out. As
for the dace, it's a good thing they don't grow very large or they would
quickly own the whole tank.
Steven A. Ellis
Kennesaw, GA
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