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Feb 16 Raleigh NC Collecting


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#1 Guest_gerald_*

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 11:20 AM

The Raleigh Aquarium Society's 23rd annual convention is next week, Feb 16-18, with a collecting trip as the kick-off event on Friday at 12:30. We'll hit an upper coastal plain cypress swamp pond for bluespotted & blackbanded suns, banded pygmy sun, mud sun, lined killies, sawcheek darter, swampfish, mudminnow, dwf waterdog, etc. Then to an eastern piedmont gravel stream for roanoke & chainback darter, glassy & tesselated darter, pinewoods, swallowtail & satinfin shiners, margined madtom, speckled killie, etc. Sorry no native fish talks at RAS this year (come back in June!), but we'll put the natives we collect on display, and i have extra okee pygmies to share. tropical talks on a wide range of fresh & salt topics. see www.raleighaquariumsociety.com or email me at gbpottern @ yahoo.com for info. --gerald

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#2 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 11:55 AM

That photo is great... I have not seen any banded pygmies that dark or that brown before. Then again I only have a few that I brought home from Missouri. Is that coloration a local thing in your area or is it just a breeding color thing (I know the other species of pygmies get very dark/black as a mating coloration)?

The Raleigh Aquarium Society's 23rd annual convention is next week, Feb 16-18, with a collecting trip as the kick-off event on Friday at 12:30. We'll hit an upper coastal plain cypress swamp pond for bluespotted & blackbanded suns, banded pygmy sun, mud sun, lined killies, sawcheek darter, swampfish, mudminnow, dwf waterdog, etc. Then to an eastern piedmont gravel stream for roanoke & chainback darter, glassy & tesselated darter, pinewoods, swallowtail & satinfin shiners, margined madtom, speckled killie, etc. Sorry no native fish talks at RAS this year (come back in June!), but we'll put the natives we collect on display, and i have extra okee pygmies to share. tropical talks on a wide range of fresh & salt topics. see www.raleighaquariumsociety.com or email me at gbpottern @ yahoo.com for info. --gerald


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#3 Guest_drewish_*

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 05:58 PM

I'm planning on going as a warm-up for the big NANFA convention. Hopefully it warms up before now and then. Any ice in the water down there Gerald?

#4 Guest_viridari_*

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 12:38 PM

Well the timing of this trip didn't work out too well for me but as I'm a "local" I look forward to the convention this summer, by which time all my tanks should be out of storage and set up at the new house.

The big problem for me is going to be keeping those tanks empty until the summer to have some room for the new captures.



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