RE: [Killietalk] Glo-fish

["Tranquility Base" <TranquilityBase at NetZero_Net>]

Hi Scott,

Releasing one species into an environment foreign to it will usually have
undesirable consequences for the species that is introduced or the species
that gets pressured.

I suppose that as humans we have become an agent for change in our world.
For better or worse, things are going to change.

We need to try to exercise extreme care in the ways we screw up our world to
at least slow down the clear cut and pave process.

Peace,

~RJ~

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org]On
Behalf Of unclescott
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 1:07 PM
To: killifish discussion list
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Glo-fish


> I'm not sure if I'll do the dayglow danios. ...
> Maybe it will be a dwarf flying glow in the dark bubble eye goldfish with
trailing stinging tentacles and feathers instead of scales and a prehensile
trunk.

Yeah, but you are wise enough not to dump it in the local creek, woods or
Everglade if you ever got tired of it. :)

.......

There are evidentally are a few fishermen (not this one!) already wondering
if they would be good bait in turbid waters. The USGS exotic fishes page
shows zebra danios as far north as one spot in Connecticut. They don't say
if that is a powerplant outlet.

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/SpFactSheet.asp?speciesID=505

Please correct me if in error, but aren't zebra danios found fairly far
upstream the Brahmaputra River and more tolerant of cooler temperatures than
a lot of aquarium fishes? If one goes far enough, it is a snowmelt river.

Always sorry to see an exotic introduced. Wonder who is getting crowded out.

All the best,

Scott Davis
Park Forest, IL




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