Steffen
> Von: archimedes_at_bayspringstel.net
> Antworten an: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Datum: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:54:55 -0500
> An: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Betreff: Re: NANFA-- Columbia trip gear
>
> Quoting Steffen Hellner <steffen_at_hellner.biz>:
>
> All this worry about keeping hellbenders reminds me of the first time I saw
> one.
> I was seining in N. Georgia with a friend of mine from my ichthyology class.
> We netted one and he called it a "water dog", which he said the local
> fishermen
> hated. They would lop off their heads and throw them on the stream bank. I
> kept that one for about 2 years before releasing it (I didn't know better way
> back then). Anyway, with such an attitude by locals I don't think aqauarium
> captures pose much of a threat.
>
>> In fact it is not easy to keep hellbenders or other giant salamanders. But
>> none of them needs 100 C around the year. That4s only to keep metabolism
>> down. There is one private person being awarded for breeding Andrias
>> davidianus, the chinese giant sal.
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