Also, was it just my imagination, or did the male simoterum glisten with
more blue when freshly caught than is in the photos?
--Bruce Stallsmith
Along the Black Darter Highway, the Tennessee
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: "Crail, Todd" <tcrail-in-UTNet.UToledo.Edu>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
>Subject: NANFA-L-- Next Batch & Answer for Jim
>Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:24:12 -0500
>
>Hi Jim,
>
>When I say "in the cooler", yeah that's what I mean. In a cooler. What I
>did
>this trip is use live substrates (about 1-2") and then change water every
>couple days. I also threw in carbon bags to each cooler. The only losses
>I
>had, again, were those rosysides that checked out the first night. And
>they
>really were the only fishes I had any trouble with here-in-home too (I put
>down 3, the rest seem to have stabilized). Everyone else has been just
>dandy.
>
>Okay, more eye candy. Not as bright and shiney, but definately more weird
>and
>wild...
>
>http://www.nanfa.org/members/crail/springfling2006/031806/
>
>A couple things...
>
>The ammocete is probably also a chestnut lamprey, which is what I _think_
>is
>the adult found in the main directory.
>
>Is the shiner actually a mirror shiner (N. spectraluncus)? At first I was
>like "Whoa! Exoglossum? Hyboganthus? What are you doin' up here in the
>mountains?!?" You probably can't see it, but there is a conspicuous black
>spot on the caudal peduncle.
>
>And the buffalo river "cf". They just didn't look right for simoterum to
>me
>and Bruce. I should have kept all the blacks, snubs and these separate for
>when they all color down, but hindsight is 20/20.
>
>I think that swannona shot is my favorite picture in the batch. Using the
>flash actually worked out in the tank for once :)
>
>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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