Rats, so close and yet so far away!! I can see that hot-selling fish will take precedent over these less-glamorous forage fish.

Any word on how self-sustaining the LCS were? Was it tricky to get them to spawn successfully in captivity? I've read they are picky about clean water and need lots of vegetation for their sticky eggs. Did you use spawning mats?

If we could find a source to get started it would be awesome to see if fish farms up here in the north could reproduce what you had success with.