To answer your first question -- go native! My guess is that people on this
list, like myself, will be partial to natives. With that cool temperature,
though, you'll have some trouble keeping most of the tropicals, and be
restricted to some of the cooler-water fish, like danios, white clouds, or
severe south american fishes. . . . . Better bet, go native. By my rusty
calculatiions, you have aobut 720 gallons of water in there -- plenty of
room to do lots of different things.
Also, never ever release a fish back into the wild. In our home aquariums,
they're exposed to a number of different diseases that native fish usually
don't get. There's a real chance they can carry some of these pathogens
back into the wild.
Joshua Wiegert
----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon James <gordonj_at_fundy.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 5:59 AM
Subject: NANFA-- indow pond
> Hi!
>
> I'm almost done my indoor pond
>
> 8 feet * 6 feet * 2 feet deep
>
> It sits on a concrete floor where the tem is about 60 degrees.
>
> I'm trying to decide if I want to go with native fish or tropicals.
>
> any comments or suggestions?
>
> also, I released most of my native fish (shiners, chubb, pumpkinseed
sunfish
> and American green eels) from my outdoor pond back into the wild. Any
> suggestions on winter time collection of native fish?
>
>
>
>
>
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