You brought to mind another question, what is the highest elevation that the
Olympia mudminnow (hubbsi <?) are found?
BG
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu_at_wctc.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- RE: Farthest and highest
> I always wondered why mudminnows don't range further north. You can find
> them here, and sometimes sticklebacks ( brook) in the middle of the woods
in
> shallow ponds that almost certainly freeze solid. Of course ground
currents
> and springs are common in these areas. Regardless, they can hack the cold
> sure enough.
>
> On the other hand, I wonder why central mudminnows don't do well further
> south. They seem to handle heat just fine, and trout have been stocked
much
> further south. Muds seem to disperse in spring floods, and I would have to
> think over the years they would have made their way around from the
> Mississippi River up some tributaries further south.
>
> Probably just expecting too much of this fantastic little fish.
> Incidentally, I like to call them pygmy pike. I found a common name for
them
> in the old Shedd aquarium book I just got from an older friend, yes the
book
> with the albino bowfin in it. It called mudminnows mud-trout. It really
> touted these little guys. Kind of neat reading that old literature and how
> views of certain fish have changed.
>
> Ray W.
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