Re: [Killietalk] Glo-fish

["Stan Perkins" <stanperkins at academicplanet_com>]

Any aquarist that dumps any species of native or exotic fish back into the
wild deserves to be _________ (fill in blank with appropriated terminal
punishment)! Unless they are engaged in restocking projects with locally
collected species returned to the waters they were removed.
I was seining recently and pulled out jack dempsies from a local drainage
ditch. Another friend found an unidentified cichlid living in a local bayou
in great numbers.

Stan Perkins
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "unclescott" <unclescott at prodigy_net>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:07 PM
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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