Re: NANFA-- NANFA- size requirements for brook stickleback?

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:53:40 -0400

Sounds cool, Brian. I have a 29 with sheepsheads, mummichog, white
anemones, and a skillet fish. They're all getting old now, though, and I'm
gradually losing them.

> [Original Message]
> From: Brian Bastarache <bast_at_ici.net>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Date: 9/21/00 5:28:23 PM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- NANFA- size requirements for brook stickleback?
>
> At the Natural History Center I have three 60 gallon tanks that represent
> an esturine habitat. The first is dedicated to mummichogs, Fundulus
> hetroclitus. The second has Sheephead minnows(Cyprinodon variegatus), a
> few inland silversides (Menidia beryllina), some little rainwater killies
> (Lucania parva) and 4 or 5 Three-spine stickebacks (Gasterosteus
> aculeatus). The third tank has a seahorse (Hippocampus erectus), a cpuple
> of pipefish (Sygnathus fuscus), some juvi winter flounder
> (Psuedopleuronectes americanus ), half dozen fourspine stickleback(Apeltes
> quadricus)and ninespine stickles (Pungitius pungitius).
>
> The stickles are some of my favorites. They seem to hard to keep wieght
> on, even though the feed voraciously on a variety of frozen foods and live
> brine shrimp. The threespines color up in the spring and show some nest
> building behavior.
>
> Brian Bastarache
> (New England Chapter-NANFA)
> Briatol County Natural History Center
> bast_at_ici.net
>
>
>
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