From: "Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>Reply-To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat<gsas-member@thekrib.com> To: "Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com> Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Fwd: North American Native Fish Association (NANFA)Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:01:23 -0700 Sounds interesting. I would agree that many N.A. species are as attractive and interesting as tropicals. However, the requirements to maintain these fish is substantially different. Especially in terms of maintaining water temperatures, from what I have seen. Unless we are talking about fish from the deep south or Hawaii (Hmmmm, is Hawaii considered part of North America???)
I have collected and kept many N.A. native fish over the years, killies, livebearers, sunfish, darters, cichlids. I think the club will find the talk very interesting and questions about temperature and feeding should be raised. My own experience was that unheated tanks did great for me year round in my basement in NJ where the temps would range from 65 to 85, plus that the fish could be readily conviced to eat flaked food but much prefer live food. THey also do fine kept in outdoor ponds.
Washington state has a particularly attractive fish, the Olympic mudminnow, which is very popular among the native fish hobbyists.
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