Mark,
I've still got a Tippecanoe Darter from the time of the Ohio convention and
it's doing very well. He's in a 55 gallon tank filled with lots of much
larger fish including warpaint shiners, rosyside dace, greenfin darters,
blue breast darters, variegate darters, and a bunch of others. I just drop
in frozen bloodworms and he eats them. He doesn't seem to have a problem
with the larger fish at all. I have quite a few rocks on the aquarium and
he scoots in amongst them and does fine.
Mark Otnes
Fargo ND
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <markb_at_columbus.rr.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- trout-perch/redside dace
> At 3:09 PM -0500 1/18/03, Providentaustin_at_aol.com wrote:
> >Has anyone maintained the trout-perch in the home aquarium? Also wondered
> >about redside dace and tippecanoe darters.
>
>
> I have kept troutperch and redside dace. I think Matt posted about
redside
> dace a few days ago. The troutperch were difficult to feed, kind of like
> pirate perch are. Although, I think the troutperch feed more by sight
than
> do the pirate perch. Basically you need live or tasty frozen foods and no
> competing tankmates to keep them fed. Other than that, they seemed
> undemanding. Living in warm water over the long run may be detrimental
for
> them.
>
> Redside dace seem pretty easy once they are tank acclimated. Like many
> minnows, they can be a little fragile and disease prone during the process
> of capture, transport and adaptation to tank life. Once you get past that
> hurdle, they are very attractive and active in the aquarium. Relatively
> easy to feed. Don't mix with predators, though, like sculpin, sunfishes
or
> basses. Minnows are just dinner for those guys.
>
> I have very limited experience with tippecanoes, but from what I've seen,
> they seem to do as well as other darters, except they are tiny and need
> small foods. Of course larger fish in the tank would be a threat. I
don't
> think I would mix them with redside dace. Redside dace get big and have
> big mouths. Troutperch might be OK with tippecanoes. Don't know if you
> have any darter experience, but I would suggest learning about darter care
> before snagging the somewhat rare tippecanoe.
>
> Mark
> Ohio
> USA
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