Davey Jones
Fish Crazy
I thought about filtreing the illinois river. It is so dirty!!!!!!!!! Google it and you will see. I live about 10 miles from it.
Internal or external filter? 10 miles, you would need some extension lead
I thought about filtreing the illinois river. It is so dirty!!!!!!!!! Google it and you will see. I live about 10 miles from it.
Have you seen a pic of it?
i would love to catch stuff from either rivers or sea and see if it could live in a tank
V&S
I have actually done this. I went down to my local creek and caught some of the various small fishes that I could. I caught small minnows, some sunfish fry, and a tiny bullhead catfish. I kept them alive over the course of a summer and the growth out of the sunfish and the bullhead catfish were amazing. the minnows grew, but stayed quite small. I returned all back into the creek at the end of the summer, I'd say that the catfish probably at least tripled in size! I am going to investigate the minnows a bit more this summer and see if they actually might be good more permanent residents because they continued to stay quite small.
the craziest idea i ever had was to leave this forum
the craziest idea i ever had was to leave this forum
i did that once but i really needed a wee now i just spend all my life sitting here never movingfrom the forum untill nature calls next
i would love to catch stuff from either rivers or sea and see if it could live in a tank
V&S
I have actually done this. I went down to my local creek and caught some of the various small fishes that I could. I caught small minnows, some sunfish fry, and a tiny bullhead catfish. I kept them alive over the course of a summer and the growth out of the sunfish and the bullhead catfish were amazing. the minnows grew, but stayed quite small. I returned all back into the creek at the end of the summer, I'd say that the catfish probably at least tripled in size! I am going to investigate the minnows a bit more this summer and see if they actually might be good more permanent residents because they continued to stay quite small.
People would be amazed by the variety of small fish found in local lakes, streams and even little 2 foot wide creeks. In college I had an icthyology field course that required us to collect, identify and prepare a fish collection as a major part of our grade. I ended up with a collection of over 100 different species of fish, most of which were collected in Illinois (USA) but also from trips all the way down to Florida. My collection had everything from gambusia & wild mollies to blind cave fish. And some of the prettiest fish and most unique fish were those that we seined & netted from tiny little creeks – red bellied dace, various darters, sticklebacks, madtoms, etc. The colors on some of those little fish from small creeks would rival those seen at the lfs! Unfortunately, the colors fade very quickly when preserving the specimens in formalin. And a lot of the species from the fast flowing little creeks are difficult or impossible to keep under normal aquaria conditions. It’s really amazing what can be found in a little creek you can easily jump over!
is that legal
if you save all the rivers and seas you'll probably get a 1 million dollar prize lol