By Otto
I have added to my aquarium again. This time I caught two
red finned shiners. They are a common Kansas minnow. I got them in the Walnut
River in El Dorado. I nabbed them with a long butterfly net. The fish are fairly
common in Kansas streams. They are not real intelligent, but they are only
about an inch and a half and they won’t hurt any of my other fish.
This is important, because I already tried to put mosquito fish
in the tank and my gouramis tried to kill them all. Mosquito fish aren’t very colorful
and they aren’t very smart. The new minnows have a stripe on them and if they
develop their full color, which doesn’t always work in a fish tank, they have
reddish fins.
I also have a bluegill I caught. These fish are smarter and
more interesting, but he may be too big and may spend too much time chasing my
other fish. I may end up releasing him in a nearby lake. I’d like to keep him
as he is very interesting. But I only have a 10 gallon tank to put him in right
now. If he got along with my other fish he would have been the best fish I caught.
I may have to keep him a while and see if he has potential to live among my
pets.
I like the idea of having a few native fish in my tank. It
is a rainbow society of fish. Every state has its own animals that can be made
into pets. These animals represent what is unique to living here. There are
potential pets found wild in any state.
Fish of
the world unite!
These pictures are just examples. My camera does not take good
pictures of these small fish.
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