Re: NANFA-- Darter's not eating

Henry Deford (hdeford_at_home.com)
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:24:30 -0400

Chris,

I understand that my Shiners and Sunfish are mid tank swimmers and that
Darters only stay on the bottom because of their reduced swim bladder.

I do take my frozen blood worms in a turkey baster and squirt it down to
them. I learned that trick when I had to feed the fry of some of my Cichlids
all the way at the bottom of the tank like the Darters. I have tried every
thing to get them to eat the food. I put food after food in front of their
face and they just lay there.

Yes I also do where you throw some flakes on top for the mid water fish and
throw some food down for the bottom dwellers.

I think that it's just that they don't like the food I'm giving them not
that they can't find any to eat.

I know they aren't Tessellates because they don't have any "W's" or "V's" on
their sides. They have large brown splotches all over them. I caught them in
a small stream in Cockeysville, MD.

Thanks,

Henry Deford
Owings Mills, MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Scharpf" <ichthos_at_charm.net>
To: "NANFA Mailing List" <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Darter's not eating

> Henry,
>
> Considering that you have shiners and sunfish in your tank, which swim in
the
> middle of the water column, are your darters, which stay on or near the
bottom,
> getting anything to eat?
>
> I use a turkey baster to squirt frozen bloodworms and live blackworms
directly
> to my darters, madtoms, and other benthic fishes.
>
> Another trick is to sprinkle flakes or other floating foods to attract and
> distract the surface feeding fish, then slip the live or frozen goodies
past 'em
> to the fishies below.
>
> Also, what makes you think your darters aren't tesselateds? Where did you
get
> them?
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
>
>
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