has any one keep a shiner before????
- Thread starter Gdub1221
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Many many times.
A round tank, good filtering, circulation and aeration are key to healthy shiners. I've kept them in Tanks from 5g to 300g but round tanks are the best.
But I got a great story about one if you want to hear it.
Dr Joe
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A round tank, good filtering, circulation and aeration are key to healthy shiners. I've kept them in Tanks from 5g to 300g but round tanks are the best.
But I got a great story about one if you want to hear it.
Dr Joe
.
i use to sell 60 lbs of shiners a week,so you could say i have kept a few.Cold clean water with lots of oxygen.
Ok.My Dad had an old buddy (Bill) we used to go visit when I was young (late 50's, early 60's). I remember he was showing my Dad something in his basement workshop and in the little window up by the ceiling was an old 1.5g goldfish bowl. It had water in it but you couldn't see thru it for the algae! And that was with the sun behind it
. I was intrigued by this and if I watched closely I sometimes could see a shadow move. Bill said he brought it home by accident one time in his bait bucket (Now he lived in the city a good 45min drive) and decided to put it in the bowl (tap water no less, water was water back then
) and see if it would live. Bill's health got to poor to go fishing again. He fed it fish flakes every couple of days hesaid. He would scrape some of the algae off when I was there to show it to me and that went on for 6 years. Till I moved away. We went back once a year later and he still had it!
No aeration. (natural gas exchange).
No filtration. (biological filtration from the algae and bacteria in the gravel).
No water changes (only top off from eveporation).
No tank cleaning.
No heater (this takes place in Detroit, Michigan)
Morning only sunlight.
Random feedings. (plus algae).
Ask anyone on this site if you could raise a fish under these conditions and you would probably get a unanimous NO. And if I hadn't lived it I would be more than skeptical too.
Bill just didn't know he couldn't do it was all
.And that's my shiner story
. Hope you enjoyed it.Dr Joe
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