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genesiszkewl
08-31-2007, 5:10 PM
i have had 2 mimmichogs caught about 2 years ago from an estuary in my 20 gallon tnak they are huge now about 3.5inches and when i first caught them they were about 50 of them only to survived and they were about 1inch long. has anyone else herd of this before
nmrsco
08-31-2007, 8:42 PM
do you keep them in saltwater? I have never heard of people keepong them in tanks, but I catch them all the time for fluke bait
genesiszkewl
09-03-2007, 3:48 PM
i have kept them in my community tank frehswater... i catched about 10 of them and realsed ten but then only survived untill one jumped out the tank so now i have 2 in my 10 gallon with guppies mollies and swordtails they do very well if u add aquarium salt for freshwater
teleost
09-07-2007, 8:30 PM
If you had 50 in a 20 gallon I'd be willing to bet the largest fish ate killed the inferior fish. This is pretty common (I've kept them until recently).
I kept my fish @ an SG of 1.012 and they seemed pretty happy. A very aggressive fish (I will not keep them again with tankmates).