For guaranteed fish success, get mummichogs (the bait shop dudes always call
them bull minnows, what can I say). They're damn near impossible to kill and
thrive on funky conditions. Mollies aren't as forgiving, even wild-caught
ones.
What crabs do you have? Hermits will do OK; greens or blues will kill
everything else, escape, and/or die quickly and smell.
--Bruce Stallsmith
way above tidewater along the Tennessee
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: Derek Parr <derekparr-in-earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Jedi Fishin'
>Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:37:40 -0400
>
>Just got back from a trip to the coast this weekend and came back with some
>buckets of mud, water, crabs, and some cord grass and other plants from a
>coastal marsh area north of town.
>
>The plan is to recreate the area in a 5 or 10 gallon tank. Of course all
>the plants will be emersed or on land.. using driftwood and perhaps stones
>to keep the mud up high in one end and shallow in the other where the
>water will be. Further I plan on putting it near a window, so I won't need
>lighting.
>
>Possibly .. if I have room in the water portion of the tank, I think I
>might put a par of sailfin mollies or something else that would be happy in
>the environment. Of course this might require a larger tank for the
>endeavor. And ideas? thoughts on that?
>
>Frankly I'm looking for any and all opinions on this subject that anyone
>here may have. And certainly if anyone has messed with this idea or
>environment.. please share.
>
>thanks,
>-derek parr
>central NC
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