It has also been recorded in a pond in the drainage of the Osage River in Kansas where it was probably released by an angler using the fish as bait.

[4] The slim minnow occurs in sand-bottomed and gravel-bottomed pools and stretches of creeks and small rivers.

[2] The breeding males become territorial, establishing a nest site in a suitable crevice, for example in a stone or cobble and begin to display at females.

Females approached the nest and when mating they adhered the eggs to the substrate while pressed against the male which simultaneously fertilised them.

The eggs eventually form a cluster adhered to the underside of the rock and the female leaves them to be guarded, cleaned and aerated by the male.