Re: [Killietalk] Salt/brackish water killifish

[jay rose <jayman8117 at yahoo_com>]

Harry,
do we have time to go fishing with Captain Bob before driving to Syracuse?
Jay Rose
AKA
BAKA
Founder-SVAS


----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Goldstein <rgoldstein at rjgaCarolina_com>
To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 6:11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Salt/brackish water killifish

I'll be in Syracuse. I'll probably bring more native books too. If anyone 
can bring sticklebacks, I'd like to have them again, although they won't 
spawn again probably until January.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Faustmann" <hwfaustmann at optonline_net>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Salt/brackish water killifish


> Good Morning Capt. Bob. I still do live on the South Shore of Long Island
> and collect my salt water for Brine Shrimp hatching from the Great South 
> Bay
> near Bellmore and Merrick.I also collect those same killifish that are 
> still
> there and can identify them for you. Those "Mummychugs" are the Fundulus
> heteroclitus, and the "Sheepshead Bay minnows" are the Cyprinodon 
> variegatus
> that look like a Platy. The black striped killies from pure salt water,
> although often found in the brackish canals, are Fundulus majalis, and get
> quite large.Fundulus luciae is much smaller, about 2 inches, and found
> amongest the grasses and tidal pools. A freshwater killifish that is often
> washed into the brackish waterways here on the South Shore is known as the
> Banded killifish, which is Fundulus diaphanus. I have collected 
> F.diaphanus
> from my backyard stream and established them in my ponds. Very good for
> mosquito control. There might be other species I haven't listed, but these
> are  the most commonly found in the "killie traps".A good source for
> identification of native American fishes is Bob Goldstein's American
> Aquarium Fishes(ISBN 0-89096-880-2) And if you buy and bring a copy of it 
> to
> this years AKA Convention in Syracuse, he just may autograph it for you!
> (Right Bob G. ?)  Nice reminiscing with you Capt.Bob.
>
> Harry W. Faustmann (On the South Shore of Long Island, NY, where it was in
> the upper 30's this morning!)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <bleonti at optonline_net>
> To: <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:28 AM
> Subject: [Killietalk] Salt/brackish water killifish
>
>
>> To all,
>> I grew up on Great South Bay, Long Island, NY. Our house was on a creek
>> which was partially brackish water. My question is, what species of
>> killifish exist here? I always had a "killie trap" in the creek behind 
>> the
>> house to catch bait and would see the "common killifish" (mummychug) as
>> well as a fish that resembled a platy which at times was very colorful
>> with the males having red and orange hues. I did have a "Bay Tank" (30
>> gal) in which I kept both species along with stickle back (three 
>> spined?),
>> seahorse, pipe fish, eels and grass shrimp which would all enter the 
>> trap.
>> They all did well living together.
>> Capt. Bob Leonti
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