Re: NANFA-- RE: One tough fish

Brian Haas (bhaas_at_netexpress.net)
Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:43:40 -0500

Go natives!

Travis Haas
Hazel Green, WI

At 01:08 PM 6/6/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Just a note to relate my story of a really tough fish..........
>
>Gobiosoma boscii (Naked Goby) is found in the estuaries of the Louisiana Gulf
>coast. One can often kick along the beaches of the area and pour out a
>discarded pop-bottle or beer can into a net and observe this little fish.
>
>I was collecting fish at the Bayou Lacombe, Louisiana area on Sunday, June 2,
>2002. It was taken with a dip-net in the shallow water at the terminus of La.
>Hwy 434 at the northern edge of Lake Ponchartrain and the Bayou Lacombe road.
>
>I tossed it into my Igloo cooler, along with specimens of Fundulus grandis
and
>Cyprinodon variegatus and gave it no more thought until today, June 6, 2002.
>After my arrival at home on Sunday, I transferred the former species in a
>holding tank, just assuming the the Naked gobie had been tranferred also.
>
>Surprise!!!!
>
>When I picked up the empty cooler to rinse it out today (it was standing
in a
>corner and had completely dried out), I noticed a fish flopping around on
the
>dried out bottom of the cooler! When I looked closer, to my complete
surprise,
>I saw the lone male Naked Gobie had survived in what had to be just a scant
>tablespoon of water that was trapped in the drain spout of this Igloo
>cooler!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Now this fish was promptly placed into a small container with it's scant
water
>supply and is now being acclimated to another of my brackish water tanks and
>is provided with a portion of freshly hatched brine shrimp to somehow make up
>for his ordeal!
>
>Try that with a tetra or cichlid or whatever!
>
>I am still amazed at this!
>
>BG

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