Hello all,
I've been reading as a guest for months, and decided to join in the fun.
I live in the SF east bay area in the Alameda creek watershed. Not many natives left in the watershed now due to dams, diversion, introduced species etc, but work is underway to restore some semblance of balance.
I've kept local species tanks since I was a kid (long ago). Currently, I have a large tank housing sunfish from all over, and a plant tank that is getting a bunch of purchased sunnies, shortly.
Page about the sunfish tank:
http://www.rickwrenc...m/fishtank.html
Rick

Hello all,
I've been reading as a guest for months, and decided to join in the fun.
I live in the SF east bay area in the Alameda creek watershed. Not many natives left in the watershed now due to dams, diversion, introduced species etc, but work is underway to restore some semblance of balance.
I've kept local species tanks since I was a kid (long ago). Currently, I have a large tank housing sunfish from all over, and a plant tank that is getting a bunch of purchased sunnies, shortly.
Page about the sunfish tank:
http://www.rickwrenc...m/fishtank.html
Rick

Welcome to the forum and nice fish!

Welcome!

Hello all,
I've been reading as a guest for months, and decided to join in the fun.
I live in the SF east bay area in the Alameda creek watershed. Not many natives left in the watershed now due to dams, diversion, introduced species etc, but work is underway to restore some semblance of balance.
I've kept local species tanks since I was a kid (long ago). Currently, I have a large tank housing sunfish from all over, and a plant tank that is getting a bunch of purchased sunnies, shortly.
Page about the sunfish tank:
http://www.rickwrenc...m/fishtank.html
Rick

Welcome! Very nice fish. I love the longear and blackbanded. I need to get some of these for my collection.

Welcome, and as a first time poster you done it right!

hey Rick,

welcome!

I live just a couple BART stops north of you.

It's too bad that California's regulations on native-fish keeping make it so difficult to enjoy native non-game fishes. At least a lot of people still rally around habitat restoration for native salmonids, and that has a tricke-down beneficial effect on non-game fishes as well.

Dave

Welcome to the fourm Rick, cool tank

hey Rick,

welcome!

I live just a couple BART stops north of you.

It's too bad that California's regulations on native-fish keeping make it so difficult to enjoy native non-game fishes. At least a lot of people still rally around habitat restoration for native salmonids, and that has a tricke-down beneficial effect on non-game fishes as well.

Dave

Yeah, the rules on collection of any fish species for aquariums have gotten a little out of hand, especially during the dacade of the Lake Davis debacle. Collection permits still aren't that hard to get, though, just lots of hoops to jump through, and very strange rules.

The Alameda Creek watershed restoration project, while aimed at steelhead, is going to benefit the rest of the natives as well. There is still a decent population of Sacramento Perch in the old gravel overflow ponds in Fremont, and Tule perch are still pretty common. Over the last five or six years there have been steelhead seen in the creek up to the first of the barriers. The native strain of trout is self-sustaining in and above the Calaveras and San Antonio reserviors too.
There is a push to use Sacramento Perch fry, instead of Gambusia, for mosquito control in that area, too. Some successful trials happened over the last two years.

Glad to be on board, hope I can contribute.
Rick