Re: cold fish

[Steven Hutchins <hutchins.33@osu.edu>]

At 11:22 AM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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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My heart goes out to you Gary.  Believe it or not, my first thought when I
heard about the great northeast icestorm was, 'all of those poor fish'!