Although this was before 911 I have flown with plastic bags of fish in my
carry one both from Florida and from the Jackson Miss. convention. No
problem they don't show up on x-ray and the one time I told them they
couldn't have cared less. Has anyone down this lately. The Airlines might
not like it but they are not security. Remember to only file the bags half
way with air they will balloon when the plane goes up.
Bob Muller
----- Original Message -----
From: "matt ashton" <ashtonmj2003-in-yahoo.com>
To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: NANFA-L-- A Christmas surprise native fish style
> So I am back home in the Northeastern Ohio area for the hoildays and
sprucing up some of the small fish tanks in my parents house that my younger
sisters woefully neglect. I headed up to the nearest pet store in town for
a few of the basics, which took me unfortunately to a Pet Supplies Plus.
After about 10 minutes of waiting to get someone to get me feeder fish and
some Elodea I am scoping out the tank of Ghost Shrimps wondering if the
Pumpkinseed might like a few of those. I look a little more in depth-in-the
tank because there are a few stray fish in it and what do I find, but 2 or 3
are what I am pretty sure to be Swamp Darters on first glance. It blew me
away and I was giddy about it. There were also two small possibly female
killies which as a family I'm not to familiar with ID'ing on the fly. I
know they werent catenatus or notatus or olivacius. So I asked if I could
'buy' those 'feeder' fish that came in with the Ghost Shrimp and the guy was
quite baffled. He !
> tried
> looking for a price in their inventory book and I was trying to lightly
explain that he wasn't going to find a price for them because they are
natives and probably came in with the shimpment. It was hilarious to see
him try and net these two killies with about a 2" net, which he ultimatley
couldnt do. But I came home with two of the darters for TWENTY CENTS! MERRY
CHRISTMAS to me! Now I just need to figure out if I am going to attempt and
how to attempt to bring these fish back on the plane to Tennessee in a week.
>
> Matt
> Currently Lakewood Ohio - Rocky River Drainage
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