Re: NANFA-- Marine natives

Travis Haas (madtom15_at_hotmail.com)
Sun, 09 Jan 2000 10:42:22 PST

What about the blennies (feather and striped) native to the north east
coast? Anyone know anything about those? I've always thought they looked
like the ideal temperate marine fish. Quinn talks about them in "Our Native
Fishes" but no one else seems to.

Travis

>From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- Marine natives
>Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 21:47:32 EST
>
>For colder water marine natives, eastern North American species would be
>easier in legal terms. Cunner, smaller cousins of the tautog or blackfish,
>would make good aquarium fish. They get up to about 25-30 cm at the largest
>and, to my knowledge, aren't particularly picky eaters. They need cool,
>oxygenated water though. Smaller flatfish like hogchokers are good, and if
>you're attracted to the grotesque, check out Oyster Toadfish, _Ospanus tau_
>(if I remember correctly). And of course the killifishes, mummichogs and
>striped.
>
>--Bruce Stallsmith
>Huntsville, AL
>"we're not in New England anymore!"
>
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