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RE: NFC: Flagfish
Ken
What is the outdoor temps in the spring when put out day - highs and
lows / night - highs and lows
What is the outdoor temps in the summer day - highs and lows / night -
highs and lows
What is the outdoor temps in the Fall when brought in day - highs and
lows / night - highs and lows
If you can't give the highs and lows for the day / night please give an
estimate and / or average
The reason for the question is that I'm in Alaska and spring / summer /
fall here have a mite bit of difference than you have in the Chicago
area, at least temp wise
I have several pair of Flagfish an am wondering if I could put them out
doors this year
Gay
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Mysliwiec [SMTP:magilla at interaccess_com]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 7:30 AM
To: nfc at actwin_com
Subject: Re: NFC: Flagfish
The local Petsmart carries them they retail for $1.59 in the
Chicago area.
Every summer I
put them in a pond in my backyard and they do rather well. I
put a
combination of sand
and small pebble bottom a half dozen or so clay flower pots and
leave them
alone at the
end of summer generally late October I collect 80 or 90 fish.
I've found
that by putting in
water lettuce or water hyacinth that gives them the top cover
and spawning
media that they like. For a treat I drop in a few earthworms or
the odd net
of daphnia I've been doing this for several years now and have
had no
problem maintaining my stock.
Ken Mysliwiec
Christian C Burke wrote:
> I recently purchased some Flagfish (Jordanella floridae) from
a local
> fish store. These are beautiful, stubby, little killies
native to the
> Florida peninsula.
>
> I had never seen these fish for sale in a store, but perhaps
this is due
> to my western location. I got the impression from the
storekeeper that
> they didn't sell very well, as they were not as "pretty" as
the platies
> and swordtails in the adjacent tanks... Whatever. Just bag
'em and tag
> 'em, please!
>
> These are stunning fish. The females have a handsome
snakeskin sort of
> pattern, and the males have bright orange horizontal stripes.
I was
> particulary attracted to them because they reminded me of the
sheepshead
> minnows I used to catch in Maryland, but more colorful.
>
> I haven't heard any mention about these fish on the list.
Does anyone
> else see them for sale in stores? Perhaps they more common
than I
> realize? Does anyone have any experience they would like to
share about
> these little guys?
>
> CCB
>
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