Wow! Great work! That little guy is beautiful, almost looks like a Tropical
with it's great color. I love the white bars in between the light brown. Is
this one of the only specimens ever caught, is it that rare or is this just
the only picture ever taken of one?
I like how you guys used gum to plug up the hole. :)
Keep up the good photography,
Henry Deford
Owings Mills, MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay DeLong" <thirdwind_at_att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 10:43 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Fall 2000 AC
> Chris, I received my AC today. Great job as always! Seeing your Olympic
> mudminnow photo brought back great memories of our trip to the Olympic
> Peninsula last year.
>
> Here's some background on that photo for the rest of you. We made a photo
> tank out of a 2 gallon octagonal fish tank. There was airline hole in the
> bottom center (I don't know why; I guess to aerate the water or
something),
> so we used chewing gum to plug the hole. Then Chris added gravel and
> submerged plants from the collection site and took that great photo (with
a
> great deal of patience). A few months later I got a call from a USFWS
> biologist asking if I knew of any live photos of the Olympic mudminnow. I
> didn't know of any and there weren't any on the web. Even Inland Fishes
of
> Washington used museum specimens. The biologist had written an article
for
> a newletter for residents of the Chehalis River basin, one of a few rivers
> where the fish lives. I asked Chris how his photo had come out and he
> subsequently shared it with the biologist. It's also on the USGS
> nonindigenous species website for those of you that didn't see it when we
> talked about it before. It's at
> http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/accounts/umbridae/no_hubbs.html. Anyway, I
> think that by taking and sharing that picture Chris can only help that
fish
> in gaining public awareness and appreciation. Each of us can do
something.
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
> "The view is better if you're an Independent"
>
>
>
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