Re: Texas cichlids (was Re: NANFA-L-- recent Ash Meadows trip)


Subject: Re: Texas cichlids (was Re: NANFA-L-- recent Ash Meadows trip)
From: James Smith (jbosmith at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 17:14:16 CDT


I'd love to! Unfortunately right now I'm having trouble even finding
places to put applesnails to grow out let alone texas cichlids :-)

Do you catch the cichlids on a hook or are they close enough to the
side of the canal to net? Have you ever tried eating them? I heard
they are tasty :-)

Jim

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:57:06 -0500, Kenneth Quinn <mosasaur47 at msn.com> wrote:
> > If I had space for another big tank, I'd so be going southward and
> > catching myself some young texas cichlids..
>
> Just come to New Orleans... I can net them from a canal about a mile away
> from my apartment... at the same spot I also net Heterandria formosa,
> Lucania parva, Poecilia latipinna, and of course Gambusia. Half a mile north
> I have Fundulus grandis. Not bad for walking distance!
>
> Kenneth Quinn
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