Madtoms

[synolover]

Any ideas for a smaller species of madtom to go in a 20 long with my four black banded sunfish and possibly some mountain redbelly dace? In the summer, the dace and sunfish would go in my dad's pond and I would like to try to breed the madtoms, if that's possible. It's a black water tank with pretty low flow and a lot of vegetation.

[Silurus]

Tadpole madtoms (

Noturus gyrinus

) would sound about right.

[Birger]

During the PVAS Catfish Convention we collected

Noturus insignis

from the Rivanna River in Virginia. They seemed to be more aggressive with each other then the

Noturus gyrinus

also collected.

[synolover]

Thanks! I think I might try the tadpoles or n. insignis

[Divemaster]

I would go with Noturus gyrinus. Igsignis will work as well, but they tend to prefer slightly more current (they'll still thrive in slackwater, however) and are more aggressive than gyrinus.