ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 71 
CHUB SUCKER OR BLACK-NOSED DACE? 
Photographs by Dr. E. Bade. 
hatching in two to five days. ‘The parents 
have been known to spawn again in the same 
nest within a few days. The male eats the 
young as soon as they are able to leave the 
nest (when about five days old) and must be 
removed. The fry can be reared on infusoria, 
hard-boiled egg-yolk, juices of meats and shell- 
fish, worms chopped fine, and small crustacea 
if available. At five weeks they are the exact 
miniature of their parents and measure one- 
half inch in length. 
The eggs of the spotted sunfish are laid 
among the aquatic vegetation and hatch in a 
couple of days. The adults will eat the eggs at 
once if not removed. 
Most sunfishes can be found commonly 
throughout the east in brooks and ponds from 
Maine southward, but the black-banded sun- 
fish makes its 
home in cedar 
sections 
of Southern New 
y and Del- 
aware and ranges 
swamp 
Jers 
from _ Pennsyl- 
ae a: 
RED-BELLIED DACE 
vania south to Maryland, while the spotted 
sunfish’s range is approximately from New 
Jersey to Florida. In North Carolina it is 
said to be common in the rice ditches, 
creeks and ponds connected with Cape Fear 
River. The little sunfish ranges from Massa- 
chusetts to Florida. 
Dace aNp CHuB SUCKER 
Difficult to distinguish apart when of small 
size, the Black-nosed Dace (Rhinichthys atro- 
nasus) and Chub Sucker (Erimyzon sucetta), 
with their long, slender bodies, marked by a 
conspicuous black band from snout to tail, make 
an interesting adjunct to the “happy family” 
tank. The black-nosed dace have been found 
excellent fishes to place with goldfishes, being 
one of the few species that will not nibble 
their fancy tails. They are hardy and are 
known to have lived 
eight years in the 
small quarters of 
the home aquarium. 
They do not grow 
beyond three inches 
in length, and the 
BOWFIN 
Photograph by L. B. Spencer 
