Example sentences for: minnows

How can you use “minnows” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The USEPA Region 6 Houston Laboratory has successfully used HW MARINEMIX® sea salts to maintain and spawn sheepshead minnows, and perform the larval survival and growth test and the embryo-larval survival and teratogenicity test.

  • Fish such as fathead minnows, sheepshead minnows, and silversides, and invertebrates such as daphnids and mysids, are easily reared in the laboratory or purchased.

  • Nacci and Jackim (1985) and USEPA (1987g) compared the results from the sea urchin fertilization test, using organic compounds, with results from acute toxicity tests using the freshwater organisms, fathead minnows, Pimphales promelas, and Daphnia magna.

  • In this study, fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, were exposed to a graded series of pesticide concentrations throughout their life cycle, and the effects of the toxicant on survival, growth, and reproduction were measured and evaluated.

  • (The flake food, TETRAMIN® or BIORIL®, can be used regularly as a substitute for trout chow in preparing food for daphnids, and can be used as a short-term substitute for trout chow in feeding fathead minnows.)


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