RE: [GSAS-Member] Room temperature tank

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

Yes it is......they are so cute! And are fun to watch.
I remember fishing for them when I was kid with my
dad.....they would practically jump into the boat!
Very pretty in the sunlite.

Trish
--- Susan Welenofsky <welenofsky@comcast.net> wrote:
> Is that the Pumpkinseed fish? It's legal to collect
> them with a fishing
> permit! After they've been kept with exotics, they
> have to be destroyed
> though, rather than released back out into the wild.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Trish
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:58 AM
> To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Room temperature tank
> 
> I have always wanted to keep sun perch.....they are
> easy to catch, with a little food tempting them they
> practicaly jump into your boat! But from what I have
> read they are extreamly dirty. And besides not even
> sure if it would be legal in this stae to keep them
> in
> aquariums.
> 
> Trish
> --- steev ward <steevward@mac.com> wrote:
> > If the room is 68F and you set the heater for 70F
> > the electrical use is
> > minimal if not negligable. Using powerhead type
> > pumps also dispenses the
> > waste heat into the tank.
> > 
> > Other candidates for 68-70 degrees (I'd like to
> hear
> > more):
> > White Cloud Mountain Minnow
> > Danios
> > Weather Loach
> > Bloodfin Tetras
> > Corydoras
> > Glass Perch
> > Most Killifish
> > Most Gouramis, Paradise Fish
> > Some Barbs(?)
> > Most Plecostomus-types
> > 
> > Steev
> > 
> > haika@drizzle.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I have an unheated tank here at work with
> Endler's
> > livebearers. Typically
> > > the temp is pretty uniform...about 72. I have
> > co-workers who have kept
> > > honey gouramis, neon tetras, Amano shrimp,
> > wild-type guppies and platies
> > > in unheated tanks. The plants do fine as well,
> but
> > we do mostly low-tech
> > > non-C02 injected tanks and have mostly cheap
> stem
> > plants, java moss and
> > > java fern.
> > >
> > > Betty Goetz
> > >
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