Re: NANFA-L-- A little mud never hurt anybody...


Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- A little mud never hurt anybody...
From: njz (njz-in-clevelandmetroparks.com)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 22:02:47 CDT


how long has that spotted sucker been in there? what is he eating?

Nick Zarlinga

"If we ignore nature.....maybe it'll go away."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Crail" <farmertodd-in-buckeye-express.com>
To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- A little mud never hurt anybody...

> Re: NANFA-L-- A little mud never hurt anybody...From: Jeremy Tiemann
>
> Thanks for your kind comment and thoughts Jeremy.
>
> > However, I don't think they grew much, if-in-all; besides, I never saw
> them siphoning.
>
> Maybe this'll answer some questions :)
>
> http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/082504tank/
>
> Corbicula.jpg is the little guy in question. I have a hunch that the "old
> looking" growth was out in the wild, the "new looking" growth was in tank.
> See how it kinda breaks up into a leading edge? Possibly algal parasitism
in
> the wild, or a change in water chemistry? Notice how that "breaking"
scute
> is indistinct, however, every other one is distinct, especially evident in
> the scutes before and after.
>
> I obviously have NO way to verify my hypothesis currently, nor have I even
> done any research on how Corbicula grows. So I am _not_ making claims :)
> What I _do_ know is... He's been in a tank for a year and this is his
> behavior ever since I've been watching him after that first day I found
him
> lol It'll be interesting to see what he does once there's fish in there.
> Hopefully I can keep him where he's-in-so I can watch and photodocument
> anything interesting.
>
> Nor would I bring a native mussel into my care without a pile of prior
> research and well, the appropriate permits :) It's fun to play with the
> exotics for now though.
>
> But that's not all for your Farmertodd Bucks tonight, Folks! Oh no!
>
> Get a load of suckers_white_x_hog.jpg! It looks like I freakin'
> Photoshop'ed that thing together!
>
> Notice the white sucker body and speckling, but with darkenings in the
> pattern of the hog sucker (it's not as grossly evident as it is
sometimes).
> Notice the more rounded protruding head, with the wide, flat top. Notice
> the little gold thingies in the dorsal fin (which is in all of the finage
of
> this animal, and is a hog sucker characteristic). By the way... What are
> those little gold thingies called?
>
> The rest is a little more eye candy. The invert pictures are the lighting
> that the fish will be photographed in soon. We can quit this weird
> flourescent look and really see the fish. I can't wait. But... Patience
> will serve this best. Especially with all the inverts that are in there
> now. Holey moley. There should be enough unreachable habitat that some
> will persist. Watching worms and planaria crawl from river gravel and
> established tank sand/gravel in the sandbed and under everything was
neato.
>
> I checked the water chem on the Reefle yesterday. Got some nitrite but no
> ammonia. Not bad for having dumped 80lbs of organic substrate in there,
no?
> :)
>
> And thanks Laura! I've got some hornwort in there now that I pulled out
of
> the back pond I was waiting to see if it would cycle, and how long I
should
> let it mature before fish introduction, because I have a pile of Val ready
> for it... But it needs to be where ever the fish are :) So I'm filling
> gaps as it goes, but I'm glad you suggested it, because I went down the
"too
> light planting with halides with fish and food" path before. And that, my
> friends... Is a certified, velvet looking, sometimes red, sometimes green,
> mess.
>
> Now to figure out why the heck Jan Hoover can't hit farmertodd.com...
> Mussels, fish... No problem. The US Army Proxy Server... Aiye aiye aiye!
> :)
>
> Todd
> The Muddy Maumee Madness, Toledo, OH
> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
> http://www.farmertodd.com
>
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