Re: NANFA-- South Carolina Sailfins

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:13:38 -0500

Hey, Bill--If any of those huge gorgeous males come back, can you send me
one/some? I'd love to get my hands on some breeders from that population.
My thinking is you've got a population with an adaptation to low hardness.
(I don't think you'll find very many populations that wouldn't die under
those conditions.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Allen jr." <billandbonnie_at_peoplepc.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- South Carolina Sailfins

> I've mentioned several times on this board that I found them here in
> shreveport LA, 200 miles from the coast, in rainwater-fed drainage ditches
> with a pH of about 7.0 and TDS < 100 PPM.
>
> My biggest colony has gone bye-bye - don't know what happened - but I've
> still found a few of them a few miles from the original location, but
> haven't found any huge gorgeous males as were at the first location.....
>
> Bill Allen
>
> "Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote
> learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment
> prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as
> good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would
> have the smartest race of people on earth." -- American
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Dame <dameda_at_shands.ufl.edu>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- South Carolina Sailfins
>
>
>
> Sailfin Bob wrote:
>
> >> As the Scharpfmeister mention, I'm really into sailfin mollies.
> >> Any of you know of any good brackish water locals for collecting
> >> them? Like maybe a salt marsh inside a State Park?
> >>
> >> Would anyone know how Soutch Carolina sailfins might compare
> >> in color and size to the Florida variety? Would it be worth an eight
> > > hour drive to get some to cross with my domestic stock?
>
> I know mollies thrive in brackish water, but hereabouts in north central
> Florida I also routinely catch them in water with essentially zero salt
> content. For example, two week ago I got a bunch just off Orange Lake,
which
> is perhaps 50 miles as the crow flies from the Gulf and 70 miles from the
> Atlantic (right by Interstate-75, between Gainesville and Ocala.) And
> they're even as common as Gambusia in some of the little streams that run
> right though downtown Gainesville (even in places where the natural stream
> has been made into a concrete chute). They're in the Sante Fe River.
They're
> in the pristine Itchnetucknee River, 3 miles from the headspring. They're
> .... well, everywhere ( I want to be !)
>
> I wasn't sure where you are ... were you talking about an 8-hr drive from
> S.C. to Florida, or vice versa ?
>
> Doug Dame
> Interlachen FL
>
>
>
>
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