--Bruce Stallsmith
along the Tennessee
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: Peter Unmack <peter.lists at>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
>Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- is there a north American option for algae
>control?
>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:17:21 -0500 (CDT)
>
>On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Crail, Todd wrote:
>
> > I always keep stonerollers, but that's because I think they're
>interesting.
>
>Todd, do your stonerollers come up to the surface much to eat flake food?
>Jake Schaffer mentioned that the clear finned Oklahoma ones never would
>come to the surface. I've mostly kept the redfinned ones from that part
>of the world and they come to the surface very readily. I've never had
>much luck keeping clearfinned fish from TX and OK. They just never seem
>to really adjust to eating flake food. I've had a couple make it for a
>fair while, but in most cases they only last a couple months or so.
>
>Anyone else have any observations like this? The fish I've always kept
>have been the species anomalum, which of course is actually several
>species. I've never messed with oligolepis (which is also several
>species).
>
>Cheers
>Peter Unmack
>Salt River, Arizona
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