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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: WildEd]
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10/29/10 05:57 PM
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xwig16
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My 2 cents... Great looking tank. it looks like you have HOB filters on this. I would consider changing those out for a Canister filter. it would really polish your water and also would give you more filtration and less filter visibility in your tank. Especially with your bio load with 50" of fish. Just my thought. the tank looks great I love the natural look and the background is very appropriate.
Last edited by xwig16; 10/29/10 05:58 PM.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: xwig16]
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10/29/10 06:06 PM
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themilkman
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If you have a bass in there, be wary of putting any crawfish and water dogs in there lol.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: themilkman]
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10/29/10 07:18 PM
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WildEd
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If you have a bass in there, be wary of putting any crawfish and water dogs in there lol. My LMB is only 3 inches long.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: WildEd]
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10/29/10 09:18 PM
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Siberman
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My little LMB will only eat live larve, cut fish,cut shrimp or cut earthworms. I have not found any commercial pellet or dried fish food he will touch.
Get some small sinking pellets made for cichlids. Mix a few in while you're feeding him pieces of fresh food.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: Siberman]
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11/02/10 03:52 AM
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Mahoro_Su
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i would stay away from the shellfish, other then shrimp or crays in a tank, clams and mussels does not do well in a closed tank setup and they tend to do more harm then good, i have a smaller tank with dwarf crayfish from houston, they are pretty neat, i am into keeping nano stuff...
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: Mahoro_Su]
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11/02/10 02:47 PM
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ZeroHour
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Chempure elite...If you run a bag of this inside one of your filters your water will look like dasani and remain much healthier.
I have 3 reef tanks and one of them I did as an experiment with this stuff. I have gone 4 months without a true water change, just top offs.
The tank has 15 types of coral, 3 different types of shrimp, 4 different types of fish, and all the little things that come along with saltwater.
Its a nano tank so the params are much more touchy as well. ]
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: lite-liner]
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11/02/10 03:03 PM
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And Mye
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Dang dude, I just released my Highfin Carpsucker(carpiodes Velifer) cause he got too big. he was awesome. If I'd known, you'd have a rare indiginous fish allright. Starleess, that dude got to 8" before I could control him! beautiful tank, dude...... -B Never release aquarium fish into the wild, even if they are native species. These fish are introduced to pathogens via food and other tank mates that could possibly devastate natural populations. Further more if you cant keep a fish from juvi to adulthood don't try unless you are willing to eventually off your "pet". Keep in mind lotic species i.e. darters, redhorses, most shiners will die without a power head or some form of current. Also larval bivalves attach to the gills of fish, an overload will kill all fish. Rio grande cichlids are more aggressive than green sunfish after attaining +3 inches. Cool Field guide -> http://www.bio.txstate.edu/~tbonner/txfishes/index.htm
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: And Mye]
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11/02/10 10:12 PM
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Kyle46N
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Stay away from Rio Grande's (Texas Cichlid). Very aggressive. I have had them in a tank with other sunfish, and the Rio's will win. No go on the mussels. They are filter feeders and need lots of current and other nutrients in a natural water column that you won't be able to reproduce in a tank.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: And Mye]
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11/02/10 10:17 PM
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lite-liner
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Dang dude, I just released my Highfin Carpsucker(carpiodes Velifer) cause he got too big. he was awesome. If I'd known, you'd have a rare indiginous fish allright. Starleess, that dude got to 8" before I could control him! beautiful tank, dude...... -B Never release aquarium fish into the wild, even if they are native species. These fish are introduced to pathogens via food and other tank mates that could possibly devastate natural populations. Further more if you cant keep a fish from juvi to adulthood don't try unless you are willing to eventually off your "pet". thanks for your input, but the fish was released in the very spot I caught him in my net. Texoma, which is where the water in my tank comes from. 
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: Starless]
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11/03/10 01:48 AM
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Sunfish Fly
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Oh, looking at the pics again, it also looks as though you have at least one Chubsucker in there. There are at least two species in Texas, River Chubsucker and Lake Chubsucker, I believe. They're fairly rare, and that may be what you're calling a Creek Chub.
Creek Chub have a more foward oriented mouth, like a bass, or if you prefer, a shiner.
Chubsucker, on the other hand, have a mouth more oriented towards the bottom, the same sort of mouth you'd see on a Buffalo, or that Gray Redhorse Sucker you caught.
I'm talking specifically about the fish in see in the picture with the dark stripe extending down it's lateral line, and what appears to be a mouth oriented towards the bottom of the tank. I have chubsuckers all over the creek by my house so they can't be that rare
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: Sunfish Fly]
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11/03/10 02:24 AM
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Starless
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Oh, looking at the pics again, it also looks as though you have at least one Chubsucker in there. There are at least two species in Texas, River Chubsucker and Lake Chubsucker, I believe. They're fairly rare, and that may be what you're calling a Creek Chub.
Creek Chub have a more foward oriented mouth, like a bass, or if you prefer, a shiner.
Chubsucker, on the other hand, have a mouth more oriented towards the bottom, the same sort of mouth you'd see on a Buffalo, or that Gray Redhorse Sucker you caught.
I'm talking specifically about the fish in see in the picture with the dark stripe extending down it's lateral line, and what appears to be a mouth oriented towards the bottom of the tank. I have chubsuckers all over the creek by my house so they can't be that rare Are you sure they are Chubsuckers? Lake, or River? ( I think River is the truly rare variety, and they tend to be found mostly in far east Texas. ) But both tend to be fairly uncommon if not outright rare. We caught one out at Fork, had to send it to all sorts of TPWD folks before they sent it to their higher-ups, and finally identified it for us. Here's some pics we sent to TPWD for identification. This is about as big as they get around here, so it's hard to identify them for sure without actually catching one or looking at them up close.    Cool little fish, a mini-sucker. That variety was the Lake Chubsucker, and the River Chubsucker is considered far more rare as I recall.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: Starless]
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11/03/10 02:40 AM
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Sunfish Fly
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It must be a river chubsucker. It looks like the one in the aquarium. I will catch one tomorrow and get a couple pics to show you. They have the same mouth as that one but look a little different. If they are river chubsuckers we have a very healthy population of them with hundreds of thousands in this small stretch of creek.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: Sunfish Fly]
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11/03/10 02:51 AM
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Starless
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Sure, get some pics, that would be cool to see.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: lite-liner]
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11/03/10 03:34 PM
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And Mye
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Dang dude, I just released my Highfin Carpsucker(carpiodes Velifer) cause he got too big. he was awesome. If I'd known, you'd have a rare indiginous fish allright. Starleess, that dude got to 8" before I could control him! beautiful tank, dude...... -B Never release aquarium fish into the wild, even if they are native species. These fish are introduced to pathogens via food and other tank mates that could possibly devastate natural populations. Further more if you cant keep a fish from juvi to adulthood don't try unless you are willing to eventually off your "pet". thanks for your input, but the fish was released in the very spot I caught him in my net. Texoma, which is where the water in my tank comes from. So you're saying that the fish was not exposed to anything (food, chemical, or bacteria) that it wouldn't have been in Texoma? Not buyin it.
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Re: Texas Native Fish Aquarium Project
[Re: And Mye]
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11/03/10 04:29 PM
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ZeroHour
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Have you been to Texoma lately? Everything I caught looked pretty sickly, perhaps we can blame it on the aquarium? Or we could drain the whole lake just to make sure 
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