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- Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
- Subject: Re: [F] [M] killifish, 10 gallon salt tanks (bad idea?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.173844.10557@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:38:44 GMT
- References: <lucas.727947050@spot.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- In article <lucas.727947050@spot.Colorado.EDU>, lucas@spot.Colorado.EDU (Michael A. Lucas) writes:
- > I have this very old (10 years) book on killifish. These are some of
- > the coollest looking freshwater fish I've ever seen. I've never seen
- > any like this at any pet store and I was wondering:
- > 1. Any good mail order places to get the fi or their eggs?
- > 2. Why are they so rare in the pet stores?
- > 3. Do they ever really get to look as good as they did in these pictures
- > or was that just some freak mutated fish that the snapped a photo of?
- > 4. The book talked about some killifish association or something like that,
- > is it still around? Address?
- >
- >
- > AND, I have an extra 10 gallon tank. I thought it might be neat to set it
- > up as a salt tank for an octopus or something like that. All the pet
- > store people say that it is a bad idea to set up a 10 gallon as a salt
- > tank and then convieniently started showing me thier wonderful selection
- > of 20 and 30 gallon tanks which WEREN'T to small for salt. Maybe I'm
- > being too cynical but I'd like to get some advice on this from someone
- > who knows about this, and ISN't trying to sell me anything.
- >
- > Thanks in advance.
- > Michael Lucas
- >
- >
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