Rio+Grande+Silvery+Minnow

media type="custom" key="3506914" By Jason T.

The Rio Grande Silvery Minnow can grow up to be 3 to 4 inches long and lives up to 4 days. Most of its life it lives, it lays its eggs but most of them don't make it or they get eaten before they hatch. The Rio Grande Silvery Minnow can be found in Texas, New Mexico, and if you really want to see one the are kind of easy to see in the Gulf of Mexico. They only have about 157 miles of good habiat for the Rio Grade Silvery Minnow. The silvery minnow eats other little minnows or smaller like tadpoles. The reasons that the Rio Grande silvery minnow is endangered because people littering the rivers and the places where they like to live is getting destryod for houses. Because of littering the rRo Grande silvery thinks it can eat the trash but when it does it can get stuck in its throat or cuts up its insides. Because there habitat is going away, its harder for them to live. They live all their lives laying eggs and they only live to 4 days so it makes it really hard for the people who are trying to save them. There are a few ways to save the Rio Grande silvery minnow. We could make a big encloser that fills with water and when its lays their eggs we can keep them alive. They lay about 120 eggs so if we can do that it will come back up really, really fast. Ihope nobody kills its best habitat to live in. We can all stop littering the rivers so it will be nice clean water for the fish.