Cold water fish options
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Livebearer
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Mr Tom,
Hey, I found a really cool little fish you just might be interested in,,,It's called Rosy red minnow.
I don't have the scientific name just yet but "will" available soon and be sold as a "feeder fish" by a company called easteraquatics.com Keep an eye on this and let me know as I want some for my pond too!!!
Hey, I found a really cool little fish you just might be interested in,,,It's called Rosy red minnow.
I don't have the scientific name just yet but "will" available soon and be sold as a "feeder fish" by a company called easteraquatics.com Keep an eye on this and let me know as I want some for my pond too!!!
PokeSephiroth
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I believe Rosy Red Minnows are illegal in Washington, as they are an invasive species 
Livebearer
Member
I will check my invasive species list tomarrow thanks for the heads-up!
PokeSephiroth
Member
I believe the Rosy Red Minnows are also known as Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas)...and while they are cold water compatible, they are considered as an invasive species in our state
Source: http://wdfw.wa.gov/ais/pimephales_promelas/
Source: http://wdfw.wa.gov/ais/pimephales_promelas/
Yeah, there have been a few recommendations that, while cold water, are a challenge in WA. My excel sheet has an invasive and native/collectable column that I am using to track this. For the sake of completeness, I am keeping all species I find in the list, and using the two columns to ID which are best to keep here in WA.
IMO, scientific names for the win (in these situations!) Through some common name confusion, I landed on pseudosphromenus dayi which should be another temperate gourami. Sources vary on temp rage and parameters, but research is ongoing
IMO, scientific names for the win (in these situations!) Through some common name confusion, I landed on pseudosphromenus dayi which should be another temperate gourami. Sources vary on temp rage and parameters, but research is ongoing
Livebearer
Member
Mrtom, I think I've had these before. I did some searching on-line and believe these are what I had in my pond 2 years ago. They were in with a goldfish batch at a Petco store! I got all 7 but they did'nt last very long>>>
Interesting. I'm thinking they won't exactly be good outdoor fish. Too placid and can only really handle temperate temps (68?)? I just got two and I'm trying to acclimate them. The seller's water params are totally the opposite of mine so I'm having a blast with this process. If I succeed, we'll also know if they are temperate too.
I think they have it restricted because it competes with the olympic mudminnow. I wonder if they might even interbreed, which would be even worse. The olympic mudminnow is endemic to washington, and as far as I know, is our only native fish... so if introduction of fatheads caused us to loose our only native fish, how much would that suck?
http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/endangered/species/olympic_mudminnow.pdf
FWIW, looking at pictures online, the olympic mudminnow is a gorgeous fish... making me wish we had a more stable population so it wouldn't be as hard to keep in the hobby.
http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/endangered/species/olympic_mudminnow.pdf
FWIW, looking at pictures online, the olympic mudminnow is a gorgeous fish... making me wish we had a more stable population so it wouldn't be as hard to keep in the hobby.
pbmax
Active Member
If any of you know of species that aren't currently on the Illegal Species post:PokeSephiroth said:I believe the Rosy Red Minnows are also known as Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas)...and while they are cold water compatible, they are considered as an invasive species in our state
Source: http://wdfw.wa.gov/ais/pimephales_promelas/
http://www.wafishbox.com/t7948-forum-rules-on-illegal-plant-and-animal-species-state-and-federal-laws#73630
Please let me know via PM so I can update the post. The fathead minnow is already on there, but I updated the name to include rosy red.
Anthony J.
New Member
Something of interest to me, kinda off topic, but throwing it out. First post, ember tetra, 68-82, I just got 20 of these about a month ago, and they arrived with pretty bad ich. I acclimated them to a tank that was 88 degrees, they have been there for a month, just yesterday I dropped 2 degrees to 86, and tomorrow will go to 84, and so on. Only lost one of them, but interesting how broad a temp range can be tolerated.
cichlid-gal
New Member
I know darters were mentioned Tom but this one caught my eye when I was looking them up and surfing pictures. What a beauty...these are the spawning colors being displayed in the picture
Greenside Darter
Etheostoma blenniodes
and a short article about them
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/greensidedarter/tabid/6654/Default.aspx
They would probably fall out in your "cold" category.
Greenside Darter
Etheostoma blenniodes
and a short article about them
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/greensidedarter/tabid/6654/Default.aspx
They would probably fall out in your "cold" category.
hobbyorobsession
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i' ve been keeping one of my 125s at 68 degrees not by choice. It contains roseline sharks, guppies and hillstream loaches. a few furcatus rainbows. and sexy pleco, that I can't recall the name of.
Livebearer
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Dwarfpike, Your my nieghbor! and that panda loach is spectacular! Oh Cory??!!!
