Re: NANFA-- Keeping White Suckers alive

njz (njz_at_clevelandmetroparks.com)
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:46:39 -0400

Try using a large diameter clear tube, such as the business end of a
hydroclean gravel cleaner, to get food down to your bottom feeding fish. Put
the food in the tube and the other fish can't get to it till it hits the
bottom. It helps to keep the other fish busy also with some surface food.
This reduces the problem of having to feed way too much to get food to the
less aggressive fish.

Nick Zarlinga

"If we ignore nature.....maybe it'll go away."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Collins" <bp100a_at_hotmail.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: NANFA-- Keeping White Suckers alive

> I have a White Sucker (Catostomus commersoni) in a community tank of
native
> fish. I never see the fish eat. The other fish are voracious, so I'm
> doubting there's anything left over for the sucker. Any ideas on how to
> ensure my sucker is getting a good diet? Any flake food put in the tank is
> immediately eaten by the blacknose daces & the sunfish. Very little of the
> brine shrimp I put in the tank makes it to the bottom. The sucker "looks"
> healthy, but so did the last one before it died.
>
> I have some pictures of the tank and it's contents at this URL
> http://altaitech.no-ip.com/Fish/Fish.html. Please be patient, it's a
> redirection to site I host at home via my cable ISP (hence port 80 is
> blocked).
>
> /harry

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