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Re: KillieTalk Digest V2 #122

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> KillieTalk Digest        Friday, April 3 1998        Volume 02 : Number 122
> 
> In this issue:
> 
>         Re: Kids 'n Killies
>         Dead GAR Akure update.
>         Community
> 
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> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:24:35 -0500
> From: "Barry J. Cooper" <bjc3 at cornell_edu>
> Subject: Re: Kids 'n Killies
> 
> >Subject: Re: Kids 'n Killies
> >Date: Fri, 03 Apr 98 15:43:23 GMT
> >Message-ID: <M.040398.074323.50@w4egr>
> >From: Stuart at samjraymond_softnet.co.uk
> >References: <s5234c00.077 at gwise_ama-assn.org>
> >X-Mailer: Quarterdeck Message Center [2.00]
> >
> >try keeping something common like a. australe and seeing how they live.
> >what is
> >fourth grade, i have no idea, not being american. however, i think some of my
> >ideas could be used, use your initiative. you could get the kids to find
> >out as
> >much as possible about the country where the fish are from, the habitats, the
> >geography, the whatever. use your initiative.
> >
> >paul raymond.
> >stuart at samjraymond_softnet.co.uk
> >
> 
> __________________________________________________________________
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> Department of Pathology                  Voice:  (607)253-3336
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 10:48:29 -0500
> From: John_Bacon at monitor_com
> Subject: Dead GAR Akure update.
> 
> Well, when I got home last night I went to check on my male Akure.  Since
> he was swimming fine I had put him in my 10 gallon "male" tank with a
> smaller Akure male, and a few swordtail fry.  He seemed fine yesterday
> morning, and was enjoying the frozen brine shrimp I was feeding the others
> in the tank.  When I went to check on him, he had disappeared entirely.
> Not a single sign of him anywhere in the tank.  Either he died and the
> others devoured him, or he buried himself in the gravel.  This is really
> weird, I have never had a fish completely vanish in less than eight hours
> before.
> 
> <sigh>  Anyone got extra GAR Akure females?  I have a single GAR N'Sukka
> for trade or will buy them.
> 
> JBacon
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 11:47:56 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Michael Goggin 423-882-4594 <GOGGIN_MT at A1_RSCC.CC.TN.US>
> Subject: Community
> 
> Hi - I'm new to this list and have a question:
> 
> I have recently set up a 125 gal. planted aquarium - soft neutral
> water, 68 degrees, trickle filter, heated substrate, CO2 injection,
> 5 Siamese Algae Eaters, a few ghost shrimp and a school of small
> angles.
> 
> Could anyone suggest any Killie species that would enjoy this type
> of community situation?
> 
> Thanks -
> 
> Mike Goggin       goggin_mt at a1_rscc.cc.tn.us
> 
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dear Mike Goggin,
      At this time I really can't suggest a killie that would make a
good contribution to such a combination.  Killies do best with thier own
kind.  I have had algae eaters in with killies before and found that the
algae eates (siamese) chase and harass the killies.  Even Blue Gularis.
Killies just don't do well with other fish.  They are either picked on
or end up the aggressor themselves.  This is probably the main reason
killies are not more popular.
     Here is a couple of suggestions for you.  Either keep community
type fish in your 125 ,or keep  plant spawning type killies that will be
able to reproduce in your tank.  Good community types for killies are:
Corys, plecostomus and any slow moving peaceful species.

Mike Epperson