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RE: Live foods
Jeff asked:
>When I pick up rocks in the shallows I often see "something" crawling
>around. I swap rocks out in the 10G in the boathouse ever couple of
>weeks in hopes off adding fresh food.
Some species benefit from additions of periphyton-covered rocks to their
tanks. Two species where I live-- the mountain sucker and chiselmouth--
feed on this material in their natural habitat and pretty much require
it if they are to be tank-reared. They'll graze on those rocks and
ignore other foods. The chiselmouth has specially-adapted mouthparts to
accomplish this.
I wonder if hog suckers would be easier to rear if they were fed this
way?
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Jay DeLong
Olympia, WA, USA
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