Re: NANFA-L-- Esox Gender Determination

Mark (nanfa-in-jonahsaquarium.com)
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:18:42 -0500

At 2:47 PM -0500 1/28/05, EELReprah-in-aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/28/05 2:35:40 PM, nanfa-in-jonahsaquarium.com writes:
>
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>Does anyone have access to adult Esox americanus that would like to
>try this method on them? >>
>
>How adult is sufficient? I have one that is about 8 inches long but I doubt
>that I can hold him/her long enough to see. Maybe I can take a digital picture
>from beneath the glass bottom tank.

That sounds pretty adult. But be careful. I once killed a pickerel
I had had for a long time, by restraining it too tightly in my hand.
It tensed up and went into shock or something. I didn't squeeze it
tight enough to crush it, just to prevent it from wiggling. I must
have hit a nerve or something. Anyway, I put it in the tank, and it
was totally limp, basically dead-in-that point.

-- 
Mark
Conejo Creek drainage
California USA

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