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- From: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
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- Subject: Re: Nervous Festivums (F)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.222846.13335@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:28:46 GMT
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- >BTW, Baensch says that Festivums should not be kept with Neons, "which are
- >are favorite food, and will be eaten." Is this the Neons with the wooden
- >or what? Catching four or five small feeder guppies keeps my four Festivums
- >busy and amused for hours; mine, at least, are hopeless predators. Anyone
- >else had experience here? I've seen a reference somewhere to Festivums eating
- >mainly plant material - does this ring true?
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- While I like his book, I have found a few blatant errors in it. For instance,
- he claims that the Bluegill sunfish is a very rare fish... riiiiiiiiigghhttt!
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- They dominate the river fauna in new england... I can't through my line in
- w/ out one snagging my worm right off the hook...
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- Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is that I wouldn't take his word for gospel,
- yet, at the same rate, Festivums are cichlids, and they may surprise you...
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- Not much help, am I...
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- mike
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