I caught mine in Amarillo Texas and drove them home to Tucson (12 hours) and
kept them over a year. I kept them with salt and without, but Tucson's
water is VERY hard and has a pH of 8.5. I added salt when I started losing
fish and they immediately stopped dying. The fish would start to lose it's
translucency and get cloudy. It would be dead in a couple of hours. I
inadvertantly added WAY too much salt and brought the salinity up to 1.013
in about 15 minutes. Ooops. The fish did fine, though. I wouldn't
recommend this practice.
I gradually over 6 to 8 weeks reduced the salinity to regular Tucson tap
water.
Geoff Kimber
Lexington,KY
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanfa_at_aquaria.net On Behalf
Of kidt cordry
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:38 PM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: NANFA-- silversides ?
2: thoughts/suggestions on keeping brook silversides as an aqurium captive,
particularly in a "rainbowfish/shiner" tank.
2: I recently saw a pic of a brook silverside. nice oddlooking fish.
anyone ever keep them? is there an artical on doing so? how do you think
they would do in my 55?
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