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RE: Mosquito larva attacks baby fish!

Hi Wright,

I had no intention of commenting on your lack of intelligence, possibly
though on your lack of good judgment.

You believed that mosquito larvae ate fry and you put in the skeeter larvae
anyway. You, of all people, should know better than to take any advise
offered on this list! To make matters worse as the skeeter was actually
larger than the fry the best possible outcome would have been for the bug to
mature into a flying, biting skeeter as the fry were obviously too small to
eat it. Then it would have come after you!

A friend of mine actually infested his own home with skeeters some time
back. It made him somewhat unpopular with his whole family.

In revisionist history, what you were really doing is running a scientific
test to prove once and for all you were right. And you intentionally
sacrificed your own fish for our benefit. And for that I thank you.

(Before I get flamed by all of the people Wright has helped throughout the
years, who still have living killies, despite it, ***I am just
kidding!!!!***  It is after 2:00 AM and my sense of humor has a tendency to
deteriorate after midnight. So Wright, please don't take any offense. I
really can't help myself from taking advantage of such a good strait line.

I better end this message before anyone starts taking me seriously and I dig
myself in too deep. (And I know I am setting myself up here.)


Best regards,

-RJ-


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at actwin_com [mailto:owner-killietalk at actwin_com]On
Behalf Of Wright Huntley
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:55 AM
To: killietalk at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Mosquito larva attacks baby fish!


-RJ- wrote:
>
> Wright,
>
> I think you got it backwards your supposed to feed the mosquito larvae to
> the fish not the other way around!

Is that a nice way to point out what a retard I am, RJ? ;-)

> By the way I read some time back that
> feeding mosquito fry to small fish was not recommended for the reason you
> indicated. But that warning was in regard to white mosquito larvae
Corethra
> and not Culex.  By the way the same book warns that Cyclops can also eat
> small fry.

I might have been the source, for I long advocated such a position until I
was told I was full of it. I knew about the white kind. They are obviously
oriented in the water more like a predator. [I'm lucky that any cyclops I
see never get big enough to be a problem. I think Baensch warns about them.]

I should clarify the eye-witness account of the attack:

The mosquito wriggler was, as usual, hanging from the surface by his tail
breathing tube, or whatever it is, when the baby swam very close by. IDK
whether it was visual or water disturbance, but the worm just snapped its
head end over to grab the baby fish. The tail didn't move until I went after
him with the baster.

Wright

--
Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 494-8679  huntley1 at home_com

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for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated."
                                      --Thomas Jefferson

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