Have a nice cold evening,
Henry Deford
(Owings Mills, MD)
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From: bockj <bockj_at_erols.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 4:22 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Indoor collecting
> Desperate for a remedy for cabin fever, I embarked on a collecting trip
> last Sunday. I needed plants for my 65 gallon sailfin molly tank, but it
> was too cold to go wading around the Chesapeake. I set off for the
> aquarium center, an aquarium superstore in the northern Baltimore suburb
of
> Randallstown. The place is huge, with more than 700 tanks, I think. Lots
> of exotic tropicals for a winter weary native fish enthusiast to look at
> while longing for warmer climes. If anyone is interested, the Aquarium
> Center also had some "Pike" livebearers. The store also had a few strains
> of sailfin mollies. Naturally, I "collected" some of these to bring
> home--two oranges and a nearly black male. A week later, the males are
> both doing ok; the female died soon after giving birth.
>
> Next, I went after what I had come for--plants that would survive in my 65
> gallon high hard water tank. Fellow NANFA member Shireen Gonzaga
> recommended that I ask for "Gloria." I told her what kind of conditions
> the plants would need to survive under, and she recommended some onion
> plants. I bought three species (I can't remember the names. She also
gave
> me some Naja grass, which people on the livebearer list said were
> indestructible under a variety of conditions, and a leafy plant that she
> said might work out for me (I can't remember the name of that, either.)
I
> mentioned that I knew Shireen, and Gloria told me that I had missed her by
> only a day.
>
> After having perused the frozen fish food freezer for baby brine shrip, I
> bought a dozen crickets for our green anole, then headed back south to
> Washington. Shireen had worked it out that all NANFA members would get a
> 10 percent discount from the place. As proof of membership, I sported my
> NANFA cap and 98 "Fishheads_at_Chatanooga" tee shirt. Not exactly collecting
> in the Everglades, but, for a winter's day, better than sitting home.
>
> Take care everyone--especially you Southern NANFA members out collecting
in
> the sand and surf.
>
> Bob
>
>
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