Once again, thank you for your 4-times-a-year labor of love. (I know that
you don't do it for the money.)
> [Original Message]
> From: Jay DeLong <thirdwind_at_att.net>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Date: 11/25/00 10:39:27 PM
> Subject: NANFA-- Fall 2000 AC
>
> Chris, I received my AC today. Great job as always! Seeing your Olympic
> mudminnow photo brought back great memories of our trip to the Olympic
> Peninsula last year.
>
> Here's some background on that photo for the rest of you. We made a photo
> tank out of a 2 gallon octagonal fish tank. There was airline hole in the
> bottom center (I don't know why; I guess to aerate the water or
something),
> so we used chewing gum to plug the hole. Then Chris added gravel and
> submerged plants from the collection site and took that great photo (with
a
> great deal of patience). A few months later I got a call from a USFWS
> biologist asking if I knew of any live photos of the Olympic mudminnow. I
> didn't know of any and there weren't any on the web. Even Inland Fishes
of
> Washington used museum specimens. The biologist had written an article
for
> a newletter for residents of the Chehalis River basin, one of a few rivers
> where the fish lives. I asked Chris how his photo had come out and he
> subsequently shared it with the biologist. It's also on the USGS
> nonindigenous species website for those of you that didn't see it when we
> talked about it before. It's at
> http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/accounts/umbridae/no_hubbs.html. Anyway, I
> think that by taking and sharing that picture Chris can only help that
fish
> in gaining public awareness and appreciation. Each of us can do
something.
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
> "The view is better if you're an Independent"
>
>
>
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