Nick Zarlinga
"If we ignore nature.....maybe it'll go away."
----- Original Message -----
From: "mark" <nanfa_at_jonahsaquarium.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- One of those conversations...
> At 1:53 PM -0400 6/29/03, Todd Crail wrote:
> >...Yes indeed, we found a localized dense population of the brook
stickleback.
> >Right about 150 feet from where Mr. Z lays his head to rest every night.
> >
> >Further sampling revealed 9 species, among which, mudminnows were found,
and
> >are another species of fish Nick has been looking for. Amazing. With
all
> >my ditch experiences lately, I will never look at a stream as too small
or
> >too degraded. It's worth jumping in, no matter what you do or don't
find.
> >We're suspicious that there's also grass pickerel in there as well. I
> >wouldn't be suprised to find tadpole madtoms. We'd only sampled about
30-40
> >yards of it, and there wasn't much of a change in habitat. Seems Nick is
> going to be a little bit busy creating some for future excursions...
>
>
> Hey, that's really cool! Especially the mudminnows, which are only
> found in certain specific habitat types in Ohio. You should report
> the collection list to Ted Cavender at OSU. Did you enter it in the
> NANFA Collection Report Database or whatever we're calling it?
> Sounds like a little more exploration is in order: Is this stream an
> isolated headwater that feeds into a highly degraded stream,
> down-flow, or does it feed into a larger urban stream with even
> greater diversity than might have been expected. I'm available later
> this month. Let's check it out.
>
> --
> Mark
> http://jonahsaquarium.com/
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