I've found that white suckers will eat pretty much anything. They do seem
to like blood worms (frozen or dried).
I've always wanted to do what you mentioned here, that is take some small
fry from a stream, raise them, and see what they turn out to be. What else
besided northern hogsuckers have you found?
Mark Otnes
Fargo ND
----- Original Message -----
From: <Prizma_at_aol.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- white sucker
> ive got a lid on the eclipse tank so he will not jump out. as for brine
> shrimp i have never had much success w/ the frozen ones and never raised
live ones.
> i have plenty of success w/ frozen blood, mosquito and glass worms/larva.
> live chopped earthworms seem to be the the best along with collected live
> mosquito larva.
> i do think i should either move him or his tank buddies out of the 25 g
> aquarium. one of the blacknose dace is 2.5" big and active. they can be
very
> agressive.
>
> i think mr sucker would do best in a quiet tank. however when i caught him
> and observed many others of varying sizes in this small stream they all
shared a
> close habitat w/ stonies, stripes, darters and dace. very rich and
condensed
> fauna in such a small stream.
>
> i hope he makes it. he would eventually be a very interesting introduction
to
> the cement pond. i already have a 8" hog sucker in the pond that was
> collected about 2 years ago and has continued to grow very, very well and
looks to be
> in excellent health.
>
> hogsuckers have never survived more than a few months in my glass tanks.
>
> oddly tho i have taken to collecting a dozen or so fry in the spring from
> streams and putting them in a outdoor quite shaded planted ug/air graveled
29
> tank. it is interesting to see what develops and both years several have
turned
> to being hogsuckers and still doing well. tho hogsuckers stay on the
bottom
> during young and adulthood all the fry were collected from the surface of
flowing
> water eddies. interesting.
>
> when they get bigger and i successfully remove all the predatory sunnies
from
> the cement pond they should continue to develop.
>
> casper
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