And you collecting of 150 from the get go! :-)
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ANGFA of North America
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> From: peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] D.G inbreeding
> Date: Friday, February 07, 1997 6:21 AM
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Bruce Hansen wrote:
>
> > That is the problem Peter - what are appropriate conditions?
>
> I was talking habitat conditions. Some springs have (or had) larger
> populations than others. I remember the first time I visited pool 3,
> there were a lot of fish to be found. Using two 25cm aquarium nets
> brought together over about a 1.5 m length yielded around 150 redfins.
> That's probably half the population of what resides there now due to
> damnbusia! Pool three is one of the ones that has some slightly deeper
> areas. Redfins do fine in the really shallow springs, but not as good as
> they did in pool 3.
>
> Tootles
>
> Peter Unmack