Nick Zarlinga
Aquarium Biologist
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
216.661.6500 ext 4485
"Who hears the fishes when they cry?"
Henry Thoreau--1817-1862
><)> -----Original Message-----
><)> From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
><)> [owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org]On Behalf
><)> Of Crail, Todd
><)> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 5:18 PM
><)> To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
><)> Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options
><)>
><)>
><)> Hi Geoff,
><)>
><)> The articles kinda get-in-it, but I don't see (on
><)> a skim over) that they
><)> address the aquatic types.
><)>
><)> The ones you find in your backyard are typically
><)> Armadillidium vulgare. They
><)> breathe across a very thin film of water, and will
><)> totally drown if they can't
><)> maintain that thin film. In fact, they do better
><)> too dry than too wet. They
><)> ways to make the dry times just lean time,
><)> wheareas, the too wet times will
><)> just drown them. I think they got to this in your
><)> articles.
><)>
><)> The aquatic isopods are in the same order, but
><)> different genus, Ascellus. I'm
><)> not really sure how the distributions go across
><)> the country though for
><)> species. We have aquaticus up here, and another
><)> that I can't remember. The
><)> ones we caught in TN and NC a couple weeks ago
><)> looked, well, "funny". :)
><)>
><)> Todd
><)>
><)> ________________________________
><)>
><)> From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org on behalf of geoffrey kimber
><)> Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 11:46 AM
><)> To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
><)> Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options
><)>
><)>
><)>
><)> Bruce et al-
><)>
><)> Are the isopods I find in creeks from time to time
><)> a different species
><)> from the isopods I find under rotten logs (that I
><)> call pill bugs)?
><)>
><)> If so, how long can the terrestrial isopods
><)> survuve under water? I
><)> expect that my fish would polish off nearly all
><)> the isopods I feed
><)> them, but I wonder if htose that were missed would
><)> survive and eat my
><)> plants or die and pollute the tank.
><)>
><)> geoff kimber
><)> fredericksburg,va
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