How to Keep Darters in a Planted North American Native Tank
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2019
- How to keep darters!
We look at how I care of my darters, including what I feed them. We also look at my 37 gallon planted native tank! I keep native fish and plant species in this tank!
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Have you ever kept North American native fish? If so, what species?
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I'm keeping Jordanela Floridae in a species tank right now
Yes, I kept a clementine orange in a tank for nearly a year, until my cousin told me it wasn't even a fish. Apparently it some kind of fruit???? Have you ever heard of this? Ha ha, what a crazy mistake.
My girlfriend just netted some (what we think are) round gobies near Door County WI
I've kept three Okefenokee Pygmy Sunfish. Really cool looking fish known for their dancing. I want to try out some darters! Can you give us some tank mate suggestions for the darters? I typically take advantage of snails and their cleaning capabilities. Should I use a native sucker cat?. I prefer the smallest.
Redline darters, rainbow darters, warpaint shiners, mimic shiners, scarlet shiners!!!
I love my native tank!!!
i wish you would make more videos, you do a great job and its been like 2 years since this last video
First pair of Rainbow Darters arriving this week. This video is encouraging, and instructive. Got a 29 gal set up for them.
Beautiful, original tank idea! Love the background and the stocking choices. Glad they were able to switch over to frozen bloodworms for you! Those rainbow darters are absolutely gorgeous, the green has a wonderful pattern as well.
Thank you! The rainbow darters are my favorite species right now!
Great video and info on the natives! I love the effort you put into your videos to get those sweet shots of the fish! 👍
Thank you!! I have a lot of fun with it!
What a cool tank! I've always had dreams of a 33 gallon long stream tank with darters, minnows, and other cool native flora and fauna. I've kept bluegills, and green sunfish before, and I had a pet bass for about two years. I've also had a channel cat who lived for over 10 years, and an adult green sunfish that lived for 6+ years!
I have kept them. It was a blast splashing around a rocky creek and catching them. I got them to eat frozen blood worms and frozen brine shrimp quite easily. I doubt they will accept flake food. This was a number of years back. I kept them alive in my tank for six months to a year. I am in the process of setting up a fish room in my basement. I am planning to build a gradually rising fish stream with shallow plastic tubs with little waterfalls easy to swim up with sand and gravel bottoms seaweed plants and built-in calm areas with terrestrial plants growing in them. It will be 20 some feet long. I want to have lots of rocks in it and it will flow into my bigger tanks. I would really like to get them to spawn in captivity. I plan to raise live food cultures for them. I may try breeding the dwarf Mexican Crayfish in it as well. The creek I catch them in is full of Crayfish and I often find them together under the same rock. I think you are right on track with a strong water current. I doubt these will ever be considered beginner-level fish but if given the proper diet they do make a decent community fish. They do not seem to be aggressive. I reside in Northeast Ohio. Where are you from?
I'm inspired. Normally I'm drawn to the super pristine euro style planted aquariums. But these darters are so beautiful I'm contemplating doing a local biome tank using them....
OMG 😁 that music. I used in my intro’s.
Nice video, i’m just starting a outside tank with Rainbow shiners.
super nice darter fishes :D "D cheers and nice vid there
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
When I s a kid. I kept local killies,darters ,shrimp and sticklebacks. There are so many awesome creatures in North america.
We have a hidden canyon with 60 to 100-foot walls with a wide rocky shallow stream here in Northeast Ohio that very few people know exists. It is the upper headwaters of the Grand River and it is teaming with Darters, crayfish, Sculpins, and other small fish. There is nothing more fun than wading around in it trying to catch them. You have to outsmart them, Darters are very fast and scury under rocks. If you place a large aquarium net behind the rock and lift the tock from the back the Darters will often swim right into your net.
Awesome darters! I kept a 'bluegill' for a while when I was a kid. My mom made me release it though. Very pretty and hardy fish as I recall. Thanks for the vid!
Yes! They get beautiful colors too!
Nice set ups..
I’m trying to start a North America tank and so far I have found a blunt nose darter and this is the reason I want to make a native tank because he is really cool
Great video! Tank and darters looking sweet! =)
The darters are definitely one of my favorite fish right now!
Would love to see more videos
Love the rainbow darter!
I was JUST about to think about getting some darters not knowing they eat snails. Thanks for telling me. I like my snails.
Dear Jake:
I’m very pleased to see that you are having great success with these, native species. Darters are an interesting, inquisitive little fish. The shiners look right happy in this set-up, as well. The plants add color and texture to the aquarium.
Thank you for sharing this, awesome video of your, amazing, native species tank.
All my best,
Sincerely,
E. J. Brinegar
Thank you, Brinegar! I've had a lot of fun with this tank. The rainbow darters are one of my favorite species right now!
The way they look around, they remind me of the hawk fish (Cirrhitidae) I had in my, marine tank.
I had an illinois native 29 gallon community tank a few years ago. I had a Johnny darter in there and after a few days he accepted bloodworms. I also had some shiners, stonerollers, and mud minnows in there, so maybe he learned faster because of the other fish at the bottom eating th bloodworms. Anyway, he was very personable and came up to look at me whenever I looked at the tank.
Subscribed and please keep up with north American species. This could be a great channel for it and this video was very helpful to me!
I have some log perch and rainbow darters right now!
Interesting fish very nice looking thanks for the information
Thank you sir! I appreciate you dropping by!
We've kept white crappie, yellow perch, creek chubs, various minnow species and we've recently started a tank with rainbow and Johnny darters, mottled sculpins and an evil creek chub with a very unique pattern in a planted 40B. I'm starting a scud colony and our daughter has a worm farm that will help feed our sculpins.
I feed my darters shrimp flakes. I buy dry shrimp and ground a couple up and sprinkle it in
Great video!! Your channel seems really cool!! Just subbed too!!👍
I had a nice banded killifish tank for awhile
hey love your vid, more please. thanks
Awesome video!! New sub!
Very nice video..
Right now I have a bantam sunfish. Want to catch some tankmates, hopefully an orange spotted sunfish, another bantam, and some darters.
Glad I found you
I have a 90 gallon native stream tank with rainbow shiners and darters, southern red bellied and northern red bellied dace and orange throat darters. Also have ramshorn snails and some grass shrimp. Plants: cabomba, Val, horn wort
My wild johnny darters took freeze dried blood worms right away. Haven't gotten them to eat snails. I've also had Iowa and slender head darters. I've also successfully kept Midwest native sculpin and logperch.
Kept black banded sunfish, pirate perch and darters from the Pine Barrens of NJ. Also the mudminnow, but they were never anything but aggressive to other fish. All this before you needed permission from our State to keep these beautiful fish. Was interesting to hear the names given these fish by locals, with no formal education. The mud minnow was called the 'spot tail'.
Love that tank man! I’ve never seen those around any of my LFS awesome lookin fish. I’d defiantly have to get some in the future.
I bought it online. I was planning on trying to catch one myself, but I decided to spare myself the frustration 😂
Raccoon Creek Aquatics haha if you were able to catch one that would of been really cool though! 😂👍
Very cool nerves kept any but thanks for the info 👍🏾✌🏾
I appreciate you stopping by!!
I kept darters for a while. I think they have weak immune systems and need very clean water. A lot of people talk about mysterious darter deaths, I think that is the darter dying of an infection so fast there are no visible signs of the infection so it seems like a mystery.
I had a bit of trouble getting my darters to eat at first, but now they love frozen blood worms and live baby brine shrimp. They're very cool fish with neat personalities.
Not all darters but Rainbows, at least in my tank, love basic shrimp pellets from Walmart and other carnivorous sinking foods.
I have greenside darter too.
In the past, (and now) I have kept many wild species. Creek chubs(NOT community fish!), blunt-nose minnows, southern red belly dace, green sunfish, blue gills, green-gills, orange-spotted sunnies, long-ear sunnies, spotfin shiners, rainbow, Johnny, banded, greenside and fantail darters. I have also kept both the common and brindled madtom catfish along with a smallmouth bass briefly, but they need a much bigger tank than I have. So I have a good knowledge of keeping wild fish. My biggest problem is keeping the water crystal clear as you do. Currently I have a 29 gallon tank and no longer have the sunfish, only 4 spotfins, 4 blunt-nose, 4 banded, 1 rainbow darter and 1 brindled madtom. What can I do to clear up my water? All of my fish eagerly eat frozen fresh blood worms and my shiners and minnows eat flakes.
Lastly. Raccoon creek. That is the name of the creek behind my house. I found a colonial American pipe head in this creek.
I have a question and need help. I will travel to Florida next week and I just bought a auto feeder for my fish. I got 2 darters and I really like them. I usually give them bloodworm and they don’t eat the other dry food that I give my other fish. Can u pls Tell me a dry food that the darters would eat? Thank you
Jake, hope everything is ok. A lot of people on here wondering if you're coming back to TH-cam. Hope all is well!
I'm thinking about setting up a native stream tank with a 20 gallon long.
Hey I have a question. Where do you find these DARTERS. I live in Ontario Canada. I need to go and find Darters somewhere where they can ship to us. Please I’ve literally searched every corner of the Internet
When are we going to get an update on your 125?
Can you keep them with blacknose dace?
Hello, I need some tip advice on how to clean a tank I purchased.
I have some darters they love shrimp pellets!
Would they breed in an outdoor pond setting? I plan to someday build an in ground native pond with lots of rock work and plants, stocked with only native fish in the US.
Super cool tank.. I’m thinking about putting up a couple of darters, and since you have experience with darters you think it’s a good idea if I kept them with some bottom dwellers like my zebra loaches?
Love the vids! Will there be more soon or is life still hectic?
Missing you here
Where do you purchase your NA natives from? Tanks look great.
What kind of snails were you using as feeders?
Nice tank. I was looking into native fish and couldn’t find any rainbow shiners. Would you mind telling me where you got them from?
I got mine from Jonah's aquarium. They have a website. Just Google them and they should pop up
Awesome vid, Jake! Love that set-up...very cool layout with the Vals, wood, and rocks. Darters are some of the coolest fish I've seen in a while. That's a great looking stand...very rustic. Did you build it yourself? Great tip about getting the darters to accept bloodworms. Thanks for posting!
Thank you! The darters have to be one of my favorite fish right now. My father-in-law built the stand. He's a very talented guy! I appreciate you watching!
Do they need to be in groups
Can you do about bucep please
Hey hey Jake! Hope you have been well - it has been a while :) I am researching darters - saw that you posted this so here I am! This is a great video and has convinced me that I need darters in my life. Do you still have yours? Just curious - it truly is a fabulous tank. I love it!
Hey!!! Thank you! Darters are so cool and fun to watch!! I am working on a larger North American tank right now. When it comes to the darters, I really like the rainbows! I hope you are well!
I just got farm-raised juvenile rainbow darters (about 2" long). My research says to feed them freeze-dried bloodworms, but I'm not convinced that is the best choice. Any suggestions you can give would be great! Thank you!
I know your comment is a year old, but live earthworms are amazing.
hey bro, havent seen you in a bit, are you o.k, just checking in!
Wish I could find them here
Hey man, why did you stop posting videos?
Would like to see updates on your aquariums. How have you been?
Hey Viola! Doing well. Live got a bit hectic. A lot of changes in my life. Will be returning to TH-cam soon! Can't wait to update!
Your darters will feel right at home after a year get no less than 5/// and they love flake foods/ I catch mine and they adapt to humans pretty well within a couple months
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Hi Kiwi, I am an old guy (69) and have been an aquarium hobbyist ever since my mom gave me a 5-gallon fish tank when I was 5 or 6. One of my very early fish was a crayfish. I put a flat rock up along the front glass along with a big sea snail shell that was about 5 inches in diameter. My little crayfish dug under the rock in the gravel and it wasn't long before he had a large home under the rock and as he dug it out he moved all the gravel away from the glass so that I could see in. He dug over to the large snail shell which was also by the front glass and it became his most favorite place to hang out. He would go around inside the shell until he came to where the top of the shell was broken off and he would sit there with his claws sticking out and his feelers sticking up and watch everything in the world outside his little home. Sometimes my baby Bullheads (black and very cute) would swim back under his rock and nip his tail and he would back down till he could turn around and go after them. Sometimes he would tear off a piece of their tale but it didn't stop them from tormenting him. As a little boy with an aquarium in my room, I think I spent as much time watching my aquarium as I did watching TV. My crayfish got used to me watching him but if I came to close to the glass he would raise his pinchers at me but never retreat into the shell. One of the most fascinating things about watching him was how industrious he was. He would use those front claws like a bulldozer moving out gravel from beneath his stone and piling them up around the opening that lead into his lair under the rock. It was fun watching him search through the gravel with his eight legs and feet for food and hand things up from foot to foot. I suppose calling them feet is an inaccurate way to describe them. It seems if I remember the back four legs ended in little pointed spears that the front four had little tiny pincher-like ends that worked much like hands to hand the food up to the two tiny little spear-like hands up by its mouth. It was fun to watch them use these legs to search through the gravel for food. They are terrific scavengers and bottom cleaners. The fish that are most vulnerable to them are smaller fish like black tetras and smaller Angelfish that tend to sleep near the bottom. I remember as a little boy I would come to watch my fish at night with a small flashlight and catch my crayfish in the act of carrying one of these small fish across the bottom toward his cave. I rescued a number of small fish from him. Faster fish like white clouds, zebra fish, common minnows, are much less apt to be a midnight snack for him. A crayfish will love you if you give him a live earthworm. I can't believe you getting yours to crawl up your arm and also letting you brush him with a toothbrush but I guess if you spend time with any animal you can tame them. I had a pet snapping turtle when I was a kid that I became great friends with and he would take raw hamburger right from between my fingers and never try to bite me. He only tried when I first caught him but after that every day I would catch him bugs and crickets and feed him raw hamburger and we became great friends. Of course, I never approached him carelessly like grabbing him but if I respected him and picked him up gently he was fairly tame. I took him back to the lake and let him loose in the Fall and watched him swim out into the lake and stop and look back at me before continuing back out into the wild. Crayfish are so interesting to keep in an aquarium. I think they prefer shallow water especially when they are small and I have had better luck with them in smaller tanks. It could be a water pressure thing. Also if you have an open top tank or even a covered tank with just a small opening they will often find the opening and climb out. I enjoyed your video.
You need a tank as big as the one in the Ohio rescue. I'm planning on getting some native bass and catfish for a tank. It's just an idea I have but we will see what happens in the near future.
Oh man!! It will take a little work to get my wife on board with a tank like that! I'd love to see you stock you big tank with a bass or cat!
Come back I miss you 😭😭😭😭😭
Hello
Where are you located. ?
I have 2 red line darters
hey brotha, I have not seen a video from you in a bit, are you o.k?
i see some in nature i alway thought it was goppy. ?? and a saw a fresh water ray near my area 😐
Great footage but can't hear much, sound balance needed
Rainbow darters are found as far south as Georgia and Alabama. There is not one waterway in either state that stays at or below 70 degrees in fact most reach 80 plus in the summer and the fish thrive so although this video was quite informative. It was incorrect information.
I have 8 ponds full of NANF
Johnny darters, backside darter, to match your habitat.
Hit me up we can talk ecology . Numerous misunderstood life history traits noticed in your talk
So you are a expert after 3 months???? That's hilarious!!
Mine eat brine shrimp and blood worms there beautiful
My green side started eating flakes in 3 days.
Hey man where did you go? :(
I'll be back soon! 🙂
@@RaccoonCreekAquatics Hey man, it's been a year since you've commented. Any updates? Coming back?
I've seen yours
I'm looking for a native cool water north american fish that is small and will eat shrimp and guppy fry but not the adults. I currently have a 10 gallon and will eventually move to a bigger tank. But I need population control
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I am a nearly 70-year-old guy who has been keeping fish since I was five or six when my mother gave me my first 5-gallon aquarium. I have always enjoyed keeping wild little fish that I have caught in creeks and ponds. Ever since I was small I have enjoyed catching little fishes for my aquariums. From a very young age as with many others in the hobby, My addiction to the hobby has led to me acquiring more tanks. Over the years my aquarium hobby has waxed and wained but never died out and Its waiting has been more due to other obligations and money. Even now in my old age with a shoestring budget I have a fish room down in my dungeon basement with bargain second-hand aquariums and cleat plastic tubs full of fish and aquaponic plants growing out of them like a literal jungle. Over the years I have kept minnows, Bluegills, baby Bullheads, baby channel cats, and of course Darters. Once I brought home a bunch of minnows and put them into an overcrowded 40-gallon long tank with a large number of guppies. One of the minnows was not a minnow but something much bigger, perhaps a chub. I don't know. I soon found it was eating other minnows as big as it was and it would swim around with the other fish'(continued)s tail sticking out of its mouth until eventually it could swallow it all. Honestly, I don't know how it could do it. It must have been all stomach. It may have been irresponsible but by the time I got around to catching it out of the tank it had eaten every other fish and was about 7 inches long. I took it back to the same place I had caught it and let it go and watched as it swam away up the creek. (continued)
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My darters died ):
Lose the background music, it takes away from video, plus it sounds like porn music, had to stop watching, too much business with the music ( annoying ? )
Nice!