Re: NANFA-- Hog sucker

geoff and julie kimber (gkimber2_at_earthlink.net)
Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:47:02 -0500

I caught two small hogsuckers last year and took them home.

I have kept them in a 90 gallon tank with stonerollers, a silver readhorse,
a white sucker, minners and a whole bunch of different types of darters.

The tank has fine red flint gravel in it that the suckers and redhorse like
to sift. They might be happier with sandier substrate, but this stuff is
pretty fine and the fish have doubled in size since I brought them home.

I feed flake along with frozen bloodworms, frozen krill, and frozen mosquito
larvae.

I also like ugly fish and I'm really happy with these guys.

----- Original Message -----
From: <Moontanman_at_aol.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Hog sucker

> So far my hog suckers have more than tripled in size. At least until the
big
> one disappeared. They like earthworms and tiny OSI pellets as well as
frozen
> bloodworms and lately blackworms. They sift sand a lot but don't pay any
> attention to algae. I'm really bummed out by the death of my biggest one.
I
> have two white suckers that are also doing well in that tank along with
about
> a dozen threadfin shad, inland silversides, iron shiners (I think), a
dozen
> debauwi catfish, elephantnose fish, iridescent shark, blue spotted
sunfish,
> banded sunfish, brindled madtom, bumble bee catfish, mountain loach,
> ropefish, dragonfish, five freshwater flounders and a popeyed mullet. yes
I
> like an eclectic fish population.
>
> Moon
>
>
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