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Re: NFC: orangethroatdarters & redbelly dace



haha ... spotted suckers....I meant to say native to
Colorado, even I know they couldnt possibly be native
to such a conservative state as California <VBG>  Also
I meant to send this off list ... but oh well :-)

--- Karotin Bugsy <sege7_2000 at yahoo_com> wrote:
> Lukes orangethroats are nicer than ours and his dace
> are pretty good too... let me know if he cant supply
> them and I will fix you up as I am sure he will
> contact you right away.
> > 
> > I would definitely like some of the southern (or
> > northern) redbelly dace.  
>  
> Mark Binkley has OS sunfish for sale...they are
> $5.25
> per fish and come from Minnesota Muskie Farm.  I got
> three pair from Mark and they are doing fine.  These
> are young fish and it will more than likely be
> summer
> before they color up nicely.  You can find his site
> at-------> http://www.jonahsaquarium.com/  He also
> has
> a number of other fish.  By plains killies I can
> never
> remember if you mean the kansae or the sciadicus. 
> Luke and I will be collecting sciadicus next summer
> for sure.  I have several locations where I
> collected
> them and a very pretty form of SRBD last summer.  I
> would send you some now but I had a disaster when I
> returned exhausted from the 550 mile trip and did
> not
> see the fish were in trouble until too late.  I now
> treat all my fish with triple sulfa and it works
> really well. 
> 
> 
> > I'm also looking for orange spotted sunfish &
> plains
> > killifish, if anyone 
> > has any?  
> 
> I would stay away from bullheads, they are really
> rough on your fish and may even eat them.  Try a
> couple of young stonerollers...they make their
> living
> eating the algae off the rocks in the bottom.  I
> havent tried them yet with plants as I wonder what
> they would do to plants. 
> 
> Also, young spotted suckers, if native to California
> make good aquarium inhabitants and poke around the
> bottom a lot.  Be aware that Fundulus kansae or
> zebrinus may be a very aggressive fish in some
> circumstances.  
> 
> If you are interested in some fish for your home
> tanks, that arent native to Colorodo, over the
> course
> of the next year I can get you some dynamite fish. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Klaus
> 
> 
> 
> I haven't been able to come up with a
> > bottom feeder yet, any 
> > suggestions? (everyone keeps trying to talk me
> into
> > a channel cat and I am 
> > NOT doing that since I would like to keep the rest
> > of my fish alive & have 
> > no urge to have spines through my hand whenever I
> > work on the tank)
> > 
> > oh, robert,... garter snakes are in short supply
> > this year because we were 
> > so dry...I looked all year & only saw one (though
> it
> > was absolutely 
> > gorgeous, a very unusual salmon color stripes, I'm
> > still kicking myself for 
> > releasing it).  actually, I've been thinking about
> > ordering a couple from 
> > YOUR web site. ;)  My raise had better come
> soon...
> > 
> > thanks everyone!,
> > kris
> > 
> > PS
> > Should we be going off post to work out details?
> If
> > folks give me their 
> > numbers, I'll call you so the phone is on my bill.
> >
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