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native fish info and source
Hello
I have been lurking on this list for a couple months. I have been keeping
exotic fish for years, and have occasionally tried keeping natives when I
lived in upstate New York. Now that I live in Tucson Arizona, it seems
that all the fish in the few local streams are either imports or
endangered.
I am starting up a 55 gallon aquarium at work and am interested in keeping
native fish. Since I am at work, I will not have access to RO water
easily, so I will need to keep fish that do well in Tucson tap water
conditions. Our water here is very hard with a pH of about 8.6 out of the
tap.
I would like to keep a small group of schooling fish, along with a couple
non-schooling mid water fish. Finally, I would also like to keep a couple
darters. I would prefer not to keep full size sunfish or bass as they will
rapidly outgrow my tank and I don't want the dilemma of what to do with
them.
Any ideas of what to keep? Any ideas (or volunteers) for sources?
Geoff Kimber
tucson,arizona
gkimber at flash_net