John Bongiovanni wrote:
> I have a pair of Orangespotted Sunfish I collected a couple weekends
> back with Rob Denkaus et. al. during the Texas Nanfa/NFC weekend. I've
> been dropping blood worms, tubifex, and flake food into the 55 gal tank
> but I haven't really seen the O Sunfish eating. They are much less
> agressive eaters than the other mid and toplevel fish in the tank. I
> have an assortment of shiners, fundulus, platies (a compromise with the
> Mrs.) and a too big Siamese Algae eater. They will take food into their
> mouths and then spit it out shortly. Are they typically timid fish and
> with all the activity around them, they won't complete their meal?
>
> BTW I do have to get pretty creatve to make sure that blood worms get to
> the bottom for the darters and madtoms.
>
> John
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