Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- America's national fish
From: James Smith (jim at fishiezoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 00:18:17 CDT
Ya know, pumpkinseeds are pretty, but I would LOVE to be able to go and
catch Mexican tetras, pupfish and especially Rio Grande Cichlids. I know
this post is way off topic, but the idea of having to make due with fish
like these makes my jaw hang low. I almost flew to Texas this summer just
to get myself some F0 Cichlasoma cyanoguttatum. The idea was really what
got me into thinking about native fish in the aquarium!
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/general/columns/sutton_keith/1395687.html. It's
funny to read, especially for someone who has never seen cichlids in the
wild. That first fish is a beauty too!
Whenever I think of these fish I feel like a boy who wants a puppy...
Jim
At 04:28 PM 9/8/2004, you wrote:
>The pumpkinseed introduced those who grew up in the NE quadrant of the
>country to native fishes. The rest of us had to get along on whatever we
>had native to our regions.
*snip*
>The first native fishes I knew were red shiners, _Dionda episcopa_ and _D.
>diaboli_ (both called potbellies by my father), pupfishes, Rio Grande
>cichlids, and gray redhorse, among others. The first time I ever
>snorkled, at 5 years old, I was watching Mexican tetras ("rippers" to my
>father, I think because he found it hard to keep them and minnows in the
>same bait bucket).
*snip*
> I must have been deprived, to have missed out on the pumpkinseeds ;=).
>
>Dave
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