> Well, I'm glad you're taking an out-front position on teaching evolution.
At
> least you're not in Cobb County, GA, which has resorted to the stickering
of
> biology textbooks with the hooey about "evolution is only a theory". The
> covalent bond in chemistry is "only a theory" too, why not attack that?
>
> Anyway, I think that striped shiners are a very adaptable species. They
can
> probably do well at constant temps in the upper 70s F. They're aggressive
> feeders, but not aggressive in the territorial sense. I have a few in
tanks
> at the moment, but they're all relatively large. I think I could track
down
> smaller ones at a local creek. Also, if you're looking for killifish,
there
> should be some local species that could work. Fundulus lineolatus and F.
> chrysotus should both be somewhere close to you, although it might be
easier
> to catch them with a seine net or minnow trap rather than a dipnet.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
> >From: m c <midgatutordigests_at_yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> >To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> >Subject: Re: NANFA-- School teacher needs help
> >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:27:06 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > >Hi Michael, you have an admirably ambitious plan
> >
> >Thank you, but no. Ambitious would be for me to try
> >any other method. I have no education training.
> >Also, even though I grew up in this area, I have
> >apparently little in common with the populace. I was
> >the nerd who didn't like football and who didn't
> >socialize because I didn't see the point of driving
> >around the courthouse square with pickup trucks on
> >Saturday night, or mud boggen'. Years of speach
> >theropy to fix a speach impediment left me with a
> >Yankee accent. And to top it off, I was raised in the
> >pentacostel church, and now I'm going to be the town
> >evolution teacher. So instead of approching the
> >studnets from their world, I'm going to submerse them
> >in mine.
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