Re: cold fish

["heather&mike" <haines@perth.igs.net>]

Sorry to hear you were hit so hard!

The fact that both yours and Gary's Caucatoides survived this have
reinforced my decision to go with these as my first apistos.  Now all I have
to do is find some!  Slim pickins in my area.  Patience...

Heather


- -----Original Message-----
From: Len/Geo <szucs@total.net>
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: cold fish


>Hi Gary
>
>You did a lot better than me. Had no power from Tuesday 7.30 am  till
>Sunday 12.30 pm. Did get a generator Friday night from Miami.  Lost 200
>fishes. 150 Kribs plus most of my breeding pairs of Apisto.Only have 2
>pairs of A.cacatuoides triple red and one pair of P.subocellatus left.
>Plus the Apisto I got from you at the auction. I was using blankets and
>bags of hot water. I guess that save the rest of the fishes.
>
>George
>
>> Hi all,
>> I just survived the great ice storm of 1998 (7 sub-zero days with no
>> power or heat). DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!, but I have learned that
>> Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis, Apisto cacatuoides, mcmasteri and
>> veijita can survive 30 hours at 10C, but N taenia and D maculatus get
>> into trouble at 12C. How's that for useless info? I got most of my
>> fish
>> to shelter on the 3rd day. You can do a lot with blankets and floating
>>
>> coke bottles full of hot water, when you can find hot water.
>> There, I have vented. Thank you.
>> Gary (disgruntled in Montreal)
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