Quote Originally Posted by Garter_Gertie View Post
But, Dekay, you haul yours outta your 'crik.' Please don't lead someone to think Blacknose Dace, memembers of the minnow family, are common, easily found fish in pet stores.

The only minnows I know available to the hobbiest - *unless* they live near a bait store and know specifics about minnows and know what they're doing - are rosy reds at Petco, PetSmart, et al.

You with your Dace [minnows] are more the exception than the rule because you are so dang lucky and that wonderful wonderful world of your outside your back door.

But the *only* place I've yet even found feeder guppies is at Twin Cities Reptiles. I gotta laugh! Before I found them at TCR, I asked the Fish Department Dufus-Bobo-Head at Petco if they had feeder guppies and the FDDBH said, "I've never heard of them. What are they?" I bet he would have answered, "I don't know," to "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?"

But if one did buy xpensive guppies and they breed like, well... Like guppies! The cost should be minimal.

Maybe one can only get feeder guppies at reptile kind'a places???????????
Feeder guppies are not EVERYWHERE>.. but a good number of stores have them. Also, many bait shops and fish stores offer for sale many other kinds of minnow... they are not that hard to find, you just have to look maybe where you are, everyone has rosies, but in many parts of the country, such os not the case, so it is defintely a bad idea to condemn feeding minnows. Minnows are in fact... one of the biggest make ups of a wild garter's diet!

you could also order boxes of already frozen bait minnows such as shiners, dace... offline..