Hi!
I found you guys while researching some care topics. I work in a lab and maintain our stocks of fathead minnows, sheepshead minnows, water fleas, amphipods, and mysid shrimp. Sometimes we get more interesting things, but rarely. I'm not new to keeping fish by any means, just new to native fish. I figure it's about time I started learning, and I look forward to doing that here.
New in Ohio
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, Oct 17 2013 04:05 PM
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Posted 17 October 2013 - 04:59 PM
Welcome aboard!. Sounds like you may be a big help for those who maintain live food cultures. Be sure to check out our website as well. http://nanfa.org/
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Posted 24 October 2013 - 11:18 PM
Hey, I've had dealings with lab girls. In response to questions about their charges, they make statements like, "What is that? I don't do common names." Whereupon the enlightened enquirer searches his memory and produces the correct binomial. They then respond, "Oh, yeah!"
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Posted 30 October 2013 - 04:38 PM
Wow, I'm impressed that you know common names. That's atypical of lab girls, who usually speak only Greek and Latin.
It's a habit from showing around clients who wouldn't know what I was talking about otherwise - I switch between what names I know pretty easily, but generally use the common until I know more about my audience. It's less awkward than assuming someone with great qualifications knows what I'm talking about, only to hear "so, wait... WHAT are those?". Then again, there was also the woman who heard 'water fleas' and was very, very worried that they'd jump to her clothes. She asked if they would bite....So I guess you can't win.
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Posted 31 October 2013 - 09:35 AM
I don't think it's a bad thing to use the taxonomic names. *shrugs* I do it out of habit from dealing with plants, where common names mean absolutely nothing and genus names are the only way to know what someone's talking about. Just recently I found out hornwort (which for me is definitely ceratophyllum, a spiky vascular plant that stabs your hand if you touch it) can also be a horn-branched algae (named because of its structure). Gah.
And then there's ludwigia repens, which to me means a very lovely diagonal-growing heart-leafed vascular plant, but whose common name of 'creeping primrose willow' lowers customer interest because who wants a creeper?
And don't even get me started on heterandria formosa's common name. I think livebearers are livebearers, not killifish. There are enough egg laying killis without them having to include livebearers, too.
And then there's ludwigia repens, which to me means a very lovely diagonal-growing heart-leafed vascular plant, but whose common name of 'creeping primrose willow' lowers customer interest because who wants a creeper?
And don't even get me started on heterandria formosa's common name. I think livebearers are livebearers, not killifish. There are enough egg laying killis without them having to include livebearers, too.
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Posted 31 October 2013 - 04:34 PM
Just recently I found out hornwort (which for me is definitely ceratophyllum, a spiky vascular plant that stabs your hand if you touch it) can also be a horn-branched algae (named because of its structure).
Oh geez, another one? I was having enough trouble at one time switching between 'hornwort' for my aquarium friends and 'coontail' (which I guess also has multiple plants under that name?) for my fishing friends, none of whom knew what ceratophyllum is.
And Hey! Consider joining NANFA before the dues go up at the end of the year.
I plan to, hopefully soon. You guys are great, from what looking around I've done. Just found too many fun things in too short a time right before the holidays.
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Posted 31 October 2013 - 04:41 PM
Oh, common names. Hornwort and coontail are the same thing: ceratophyllum.Oh geez, another one? I was having enough trouble at one time switching between 'hornwort' for my aquarium friends and 'coontail' (which I guess also has multiple plants under that name?) for my fishing friends, none of whom knew what ceratophyllum is.
We are a pretty fun bunch. We've got an annual convention in North Carolina coming up next year. Yeah, my local fish are great, I said it.
I'm from Ohio originally. Don't taunt me with your orangespotted sunfish and potamogeton richardsonii.
(Actually, if you find some richardsonii, let me know, and I'll buy it off you if it's not crispus. I looked for it the year before I moved down here but couldn't find any)
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