Thanks,
Henry Deford
Owings Mills, MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Bock" <bockhouse_at_earthlink.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>; <nanfa at aquaria.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- Fall 2000 AC
> Yes, Chris, you and your coeditors did a great job with that issue. I
> especially like the article on Rosy reds. The author did some great
> detective work.
>
> 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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