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Re: NFC: Setting up tank
Kristine might I suggest the members of this board take up stocking of
this aquarium with more interesting species than bluegill ? When its all
said and done if youd like you can make a donation to the nFC breeders
club or the Adopt A tank Program as a thank you of sorts. Id suspect we
could come up with 5-10 interesting species native to local creeks.
Robert Rice
Save those Fishes
Join the Native Fish Conservancy
http://www.nativefish.org
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:15:55 CDT "Kristine Weisbrod Massin"
<kwmprairie at hotmail_com> writes:
> Hi
>
> I work at a nature center in the Colorado Shortgrass prairie region
> (okay,
> these days it's mostly subdevelopments...but once upon a time it was
>
> shortgrass prairie). We have just under $2500 to set up a native
> fish tank
> (some one is leaving so we have her salary). I was planning on just
> doing a
> 180 gal blue gill tank since that is the most suitable fish in our
> lakes
> (also have pike, largemouth bass, channel cats--these were man-made
> lakes so
> were stocked with sport fish before we aquired the land).
>
> Does anyone have a complete list of EVERYTHING I will need to buy
> for this
> project? I don't really trust the stores to give me a complete
> list...and
> all my tanks at home are more in the 50 gal range so I'm not used to
> the
> wet-dry filters.
>
> Also, does anyone have suggestions for better fish representive of
> NE
> Colorado prairie? Ideally, I'd like truly native fish. However,
> they do
> have to be moderately low maintenance (as much as that can be said
> for any
> fish :) ) as I'm the only one likely to invest any time in
> this...and my
> schedule is exceedingly full already.
>
> thanks very much
>
> kristine w massin,
> Education Specialist
>
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Robert Rice
Save those Fishes
Join the Native Fish Conservancy
http://www.nativefish.org