Re: NANFA-- black gambusia

Henry Deford (hdeford_at_comcast.net)
Thu, 02 May 2002 17:17:37 -0400

Moon,

I have thousands of regular gambusia that are so jam packed in the local
runoff golf course stream that when you look in on a sunny day its like
looking at silver sheets of tinfoil swimming by. Maybe a few of your males
couldn't hurt because I would love to try to breed them with the "regular"
females I have if you couldn't manage to dig up any. Hopefully I would get a
nice ratio of black males.

I saw that you said you want the new Blue Ridge Mountains Sculpin that I
talked to you about a few months ago. I will Email Bob Bock soon and ask him
exactly where they are here in MD. If I find some I would definately be
interested in doing a nice trade.

Thanks,

Henry Deford
----- Original Message -----
From: <Moontanman_at_aol.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: NANFA-- black gambusia

> Does anyone want any black spotted gambusia? Some are sorta gold and
black. I
> have some to trade. I found a creek with about 10% melanistic males and
maybe
> even a female or too. (could be underdeveloped males) Makes me wonder if a
> mutagen is being discharged into the stream there are so many melanistic
> fish. I also get bullfrog tadpoles out of this creek that take forever to
> turn into adult frogs. I have one that is three years at least! The
creek
> is run off drainage from the state ports where everything in the world is
> shipped in and out from our state. If no one wants to trade for them I
might
> put them up for sale at aquabid.
>
> Moon

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