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Re: Native Killies
Good choice, if they can withstand North Dakota winters and your pond
doesn't freeze to the bottom they should be great.
Tom Kean
Minot, ND
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus at hotmail_com>
To: <KillieTalk at AKA_Org>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: Native Killies
> George, try the banded killifish, Fundulus diaphanus, for your pond.
They're
> native to that area and can certainly weather a southern New England
winter.
> You might also try swamp darters (Etheostoma fusiforme), pumpkinseed
sunfish
> (Lepomis gibbosus) and longear sunfish (L. megalotis) as other interesting
> natives that will be happy to off mosquito larvae for you.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
> NANFA annual meeting in Huntsville--June 6-8, 2003
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:03:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: George Trumbull <george_trumbull at yale.edu>
> Subject: Native Killies
>
> Hi everyone. I need to stock a small (1/4 acre) old ice pond
> (stream-fed, but still develops ice in winter- i.e., not stagnant but not
> fully flowing either) with something that will eat mosquito larvae. The
> pond is in northwestern CT, in the hills, so it gets cold (zone 5). Any
> killies native to the area that will do the job? If not, does one of the
> NANFA people have a suggestion (feel free to email off list, so as not to
> generate non-killie traffic). I obviously have no plans of introducing
> non-native fish.
>
> Thanks much,
> George
>
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