Gambusia from a pond in Flaherty Park, Wake Forest, NC
#1 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 07 December 2013 - 03:50 PM
The female "#1". Less green and brown than the other one. Kept in a small plastic aquarium for two days with much less algae than the #2 female. The algae is from the exact same spot where these fish were caught. The algae has been indoors for several days but was infront of a window that had a lot of sunlight.
Female #2 Alot more skittish than female #1, maybe because she has been kept in an aquarium with a curvy front for two days. I do not know how these fish acted before they were moved to these plastic aquariums from the small glass aquarium with the other Gambusia.
#2 Guest_Dustin_*
Posted 07 December 2013 - 06:23 PM
#3 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 07 December 2013 - 10:03 PM
Gambusia do better in a big group. If you have too few, the dominant one will terrorize the rest.
#4 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 07 December 2013 - 11:16 PM
Edited by GambusiaNo2, 07 December 2013 - 11:28 PM.
#5 Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 08 December 2013 - 12:34 AM
#6 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 08 December 2013 - 03:00 PM
#7 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 08 December 2013 - 06:17 PM
#8 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 08 December 2013 - 06:25 PM
Thank you Dustin for the ID! How can you tell? I have about 15 of them but they seem pretty tough. Most of them are in a small aquarium so they are fighting all day but they do not die just a little torn fins and a little stressed I guess but it might not be because of fighting just bad water or not good food. Oh, wow. So you are in Wake Forest. Hello.
#9 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 08 December 2013 - 08:16 PM
#10 Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 08 December 2013 - 09:45 PM
http://gallery.nanfa... left6.jpg.html
Regarding the 15 years old thing, you're welcome to bring your parents. We've got a convention every year, and this year it's in North Carolina. That'd be a good family vacation
More information: http://www.nanfa.org/convention.shtml
The 2014 NANFA annual convention will be held June 5-8 at the North Carolina Forest Service Training Facility located on the banks of the Linville River in Crossnore, North Carolina, which is about 30 minutes southof Boone. This place is closely located to the Catawba, Nolichucky (Tennessee) and New River watersheds.While the event runs from 5-8 June, arrangements are being made to stay on the 4th and depart on the 9th for those who want to do this.
There are 5 dormitories available with 45 rooms for a maximum of 88 beds. Most rooms have 2 single beds and a sink. Buildings A and B are closest to the dining facility and each have 14 double rooms and 1 single, all with sinks. Building A, which will be our primary gathering place, has separate men and women’s restroom/showers. Single women would most likely stay in this building, as well as couples. Our registration andauction can be held here. Building B has the same number of rooms but only one unisex shower/rest room. Both have microwaves, refrigerators, and TV. There is a large burn pit outside these buildings for gatherings. The Mountain Lodge sleeps 11 (1 single) and has a unisex shower/restroom. It also has a full kitchen. The River Lodge is the newest and sleeps 9 – one room has 3 beds. No sinks in these rooms. There are 2 shower/restrooms in this building so couples and single females could stay here also. Large gathering room upstairs. The Helitack Building is about a ¼ mile away and sleeps 10, no sinks in the rooms. It has a full kitchen with 2 bathrooms.
Costs to stay here are very reasonable. If you come in on Thursday and leave Sunday, room and meals will be $144, plus registration. Registration will be $75 for members, $100 for non-members (includes 1 year membership), $ 35 for students and collecting spouses, and $12 for non-collecting spouses. All registrations include cook out on Friday. Since the Forest Service needs to know how much food to buy, you will need to send your final payment to NANFA by May 9th in order to allow them to buy the right amount of food (but see below about early registration). Late comers may be able to stay at the facility but keep in mind that numbers are limited and they DO NOT take credit cards.
There are a number of campgrounds in the area including the one at Linville Falls operated by the National Park Service, which is only 6 miles away. Two motels are located in Linville Falls and 1 in Pineola, both about 5 miles away. There are a number of good restaurants in nearby Linville Falls, Crossnore, and Newland. The nearest airport is in Asheville some 70 miles and 90 minutes away.
Friday will consist of collecting/snorkleing in nearby watersheds with arrival back at the facility at reasonable time to enjoy the cook out and auction. Saturday will also be more collecting/snorkeling but there will also be a collecting challenge between 2 teams who will visit the same 4 sites, in reverse order – all catch and release. Numbers will be limited on these teams so when registration opens up, if you wish to compete, be prepared to register. There will an extra fee ($10) for this which will go to the funding of t-shirts for the winning team. Announcement of when registration opens up will be in the first 2014 American Currents and on the Forum. Sunday will be more of the same with some groups heading in different directions on their way home or staying in the area.
We will try and get trip leaders under the scientific collecting permit of the host so no other licenses will be needed unless you decide to collect on your own, before or after the convention.
#11 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 13 December 2013 - 04:12 PM
Yes, I noticed that they vary a lot, LOL they should call them chameleon fish. My Gambusia change color very much. In a minute or less when they go down to black gravel they will turn very dark grey, almost as dark as the gravel but then a little bit after they go up to the middle or surface of the tank they turn lighter into dark grey. They are iridescent. Their shininess changes in different places. The Gambusia that I have in a very big light tank with white sand are very light in color and when put in the small aquarium with the black gravel they turn darker but it takes several days to turn as dark as the ones originally in the small aquarium maybe because it is more acidic or something, I do not know. I think the big tank is more basic but not sure. I have kept a male and female Gambusia together in a small glass cup for about two days without disturbing them and then took out the male and kept the female in for maybe another 3 days so do they need very little oxygen? I did not see her go up to the surface and she did not move her gills much. They move their gills a lot when I net them into a new aquarium or something.
I do not understand. Is the pond a part of a farm? Do you mean that the Elodea are only in one spot around the pond close to a farm? Or do you mean that is the first place you found it and then it spread to the pond? You made a mistake in "There's". It is There are, not There is. Everybody seems to say that . Thank you for the welcome.There's only two species of native Elodea in the southeastern US (E. canadensis and E. nutalli) and the Flaherty Park pond is the ONLY place I've ever seen E. nutalli. I would love to know how it got there, in an old farm pond at the very head of a stream.
Edited by GambusiaNo2, 13 December 2013 - 04:13 PM.
#12 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 13 December 2013 - 06:38 PM
What I meant about the farm pond is that Flaherty Park WAS a farm long before the Town acquired it for use a park, and I'm guessing the Gambusia and Elodea may have been put in the pond decades ago before it became a Town park. Most farms have dams built on their small streams to capture and store water for irrigation during dry weather. I think that pond is shown on the 1970 Wake County soil map.
Thanks for the grammar correction. I guess there's no acceptable contraction form of "there are". I wonder why "they're" is OK for "they are" but we don't use "there're" for "there are". English don't make no sense.
#13 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 03 January 2014 - 10:17 PM
#14 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 04 January 2014 - 12:19 PM
#15 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 04 January 2014 - 01:45 PM
Edit: I have seen males claim territories in a small netted box made for live bearers to give birth (you know what I mean?). I had 5 or so adult males in there and juvenile females. The same male would control and chase away other males that get too close in that one corner. But they would shift territory often but usually the biggest male would take about half the area and it would stay like that for a while. I have also seen territory like things happening when I made a little stream with some plastic sheets in a tank and heated it with a heater. The males would (no big females even then) control areas. A male would keep a little dent in the plastic sheet and chase other males away and then come back and stay until another male comes too close. The males would have territories right beside each other so they would be fighting a lot.
Edited by GambusiaNo2, 04 January 2014 - 01:53 PM.
#16 Guest_don212_*
Posted 05 January 2014 - 09:36 AM
#17 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 29 January 2014 - 11:29 PM
Edited by GambusiaNo2, 29 January 2014 - 11:38 PM.
#18 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 30 January 2014 - 12:01 PM
#19 Guest_GambusiaNo2_*
Posted 30 January 2014 - 07:17 PM
LOL. I probably do not need a tank light. The ones in that tank in the video are not doing too well compared to others. Some of the Limnobium in other tanks are growing.I can hear those baby Gambusia in the background; I didn't realize how human-like they sound. If you need a tank light I've probably got a spare one in my shed I can give you. The Limnobium especially looks like it could use more light. ~~ gerald
Pictures of Gambusia holbrooki.
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