The mountain red belly dace should eat flake food or other frozen food of
appropriate size, like mosquito larvae. I've never had mountain RBDs, but I
have had both southern and northern and neither has been at all picky.
I want to emphasize what Bruce said about green sunfish food though - your
dace are very likely to end up eaten in the very near future. Green sunfish
are very voracious and they can eat amazingly large and fast fish. Your
first warning will be a total lack of red belly dace.
Geoff Kimber
Lexington,KY
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Murphy" <johnm_at_cstone.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: NANFA-- seeking feeding suggestions for lepomis cyanellus and
phoxinus oreas
> I've recently collected a green sunfish (lepomis cyanellus) and a mountain
> redbelly dace (phoxinus oreas). I've placed both in a 30 gallon community
> tank. They have been in the tank for five days. The green sunfish is not
> taking frozen bloodworms, frozen shrimp, or pellets. I read that the
mountain
> redbelly dace is an herbivore/detritivore. I'll be trying spirulina
discs.
> Would appreciate suggestions for either/both of these species.
>
> John Murphy
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