White Sucker?

[Bizzaro]

big toothless piranha...

leech? hah Might work as a clean up crew... Has anyone keep any white suckers has natives? Kinda of cool for a trout tank.

 

[voss345]

i think in order for them to live in captivity they would have to be in a very large tank that kind of resembled a stream, relatively cold water, i mean they work, theyre not really an algae eater,i used to think that until i caught a couple on worms back in the day

 

[ShadowBass]

yyea we have suckers by the barrel in new england
they basically a big pleco

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Have you seen a pleco before?

*scratches head*

 

[meepster]

yyea we have suckers by the barrel in new england
they basically a big pleco

umm.. plecos are usually flat and stick to the glass... suckers aren't flat and can't stick to the glass.

And I don't know which "new england" you're talking about. We don't have any here in MA.

 

[nativelover]

ya it works like a pleco: eats alot and craps alot.

i had one for about a week. thier pretty fragile. and need really cool water.

 

[srikamaraja]

I've kept larger ones in HIGHLY aerated rubbermaids, and I feed juvies to my redfin pickerel. They are ideal for cleaning up detritus in ponds, but need a waterfall, fountain, or some other kind of surface agitation to keep the dissolved O2 levels up, as they are generally considered riparian fish.

 

[Moontanman]

has anyone keep them? Do they work just like Plecos or are they just Bottom eaters? We went trout fishing and snagged this little dude. We released him.

I've kept suckers, hog suckers are my favorites, but they are not plecos or algae eaters. The time they spend going over rocks and logs and such is what they do to find insect larvae, worms, and crustaceans. I'm not going to say they will not eat algae but it wouldn't be the main part of their food intake at all. Find sand seems to be necessary for their internal health. black worms are taken ravenously. Hog suckers are rather sensitive to warm water. Low 70s is about as high as I would try to keep them for any length of time. I would imagine white suckers like cooler water as well.

 

[WalterMelon]

This page has some good info on White suckers: http://hatch.cehd.umn.edu/research/fish/fishes/white_sucker.html

The MORE FISH! link at the bottom of the page links back to the main page with a ton of info on a lot of different fishes native to MN

 

[Onion01]

awesome fish! They have some red suckers in the georgia aquarium that were thought to have been extinct until rediscovered in '91

 

[WalterMelon]

Hmmm the MORE FISH link on that page seems to be dead...

Here's the main page for that site with lots more fish:

http://hatch.cehd.umn.edu/research/fish/fishes/natural_history.html