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#1 malbone

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Posted 12 September 2012 - 06:59 PM

Questions - Do tadpoles eat cheery shrimp - do pygmy perch eat cheery shrimp - thanks mal

#2 Anka

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Posted 12 September 2012 - 07:04 PM

Any carnivore with a mouth big enough to eat them will eat them.


#3 bigjohnnofish

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:51 AM

tadpoles eat anything that fits in their mouth... and i'd imagine pigmy perch to be the same.....

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#4 Juls

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 08:14 AM

Pygmy perch will wipe out any and all shrimp you have in the ponds, they are "PERCH" which attack small prey like crazy, more than cichlids.

Western Pygmy perch are fantastic little fish to keep in the aquarium, hardy, easy to feed and care for, with great personality. Sadly most don't show much of there amazing colors in the aquarium however.

I have a Red Variant that stays more colored up in Aquariums, but is still better color in a breeding pond, live daphnia helps keep the color going.

Balstons pygmy perch is very rare, and have totally different feeding habits, mainly from the surface, much harder to keep.
"Little Pygmy" is even more rare, and harder to keep again than either of the others, let alone find.

Another great Native to keep is western galaxias, (galaxias occidentalis) adults get up to 5-6 inches, and they are like mini saratogas to keep once they get to about 4.5-5" at 2-3" they are more of a shoaling fish, they don't develop personality till they get bigger.

Adults color up into a Golden color with tiger stripe markings over time.

A smaller fish for small ponds thats really easy to keep is the western mud minnow (galaxiella munda), There is a couple of color variants depending where you find them.

Salamanderfish is incredibly difficult to keep, and generally doesn't survive well in captivity, live foods only, PH must be under 6.5 at all times.

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Edited by Juls, 20 September 2012 - 06:20 PM.


#5 pseudechisbutleri

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Posted 02 January 2017 - 04:49 PM

 


Edited by pseudechisbutleri, 20 April 2021 - 10:15 AM.





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