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[Amberjem]

A historical use for eel I've heard (this might not be true) was to put them in wells to eat any rats and other stuff that fell in there, kept the water clean.

thats just so neat........... how kewl perchie I use to bred fish before I moved to wa.. I just recently started getting back into keeping fish again just fun and soothing with lil community fish breeding I sell back to the pet store...my mom let me have my first tank when I was a kid.....anyways when mom died I was looking for things to distract me and stuff I got a lil 3 galloon, which turned into a 20 then ten and a 100 in the living room when we moved... I've been doing shrimp besides the community fish.............they are so amusing to watch

 

[hennible]

Neat deb... And interesting if true V

 

[perchie.girl]

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Shrimp are very fascinating.... digging in the rocks and nibbling on stuff invisible to the nekkid eye. I used to work in a big Aquarium/Pet/Nursery store We had 150 tanks half were fresh water half were salt water.... My first tank was one my dad bought me for christmas... a ten gallon made the old fashioned way.... Steel frame with a tar like substance to seal the glass togehter. I eventually graduated to a twenty gallon and relegated the ten gallon one for Snake keeping. Again I built a vivarium out of it and kept gold fish on the water side.... the garter snake would feed on the gold fish.... I kept him through two molts then returned him to where he was caught.

deb

 

[hennible]

Mantis shrimp are one of the neatest creatures on earth. Check em out sometime

 

[perchie.girl]

A historical use for eel I've heard (this might not be true) was to put them in wells to eat any rats and other stuff that fell in there, kept the water clean.

I am still looking for a reference to that... but I suspect its a wives tale.... Or if they did do it the eel didnt live for long. unless it was fed regularly.


It has to do with the oxygen in the water.... normally eels are found in moving water...

Still looking... but i have to go to take mom for her surgery followup exam.

deb

 

[Wisher1000]

Wisher, American Pie is the song and movie franchise.

I know that, but I didn't think it was the one you were talking about. That was my interjection about the "apple based, U.S. dessert" but I didn't think I had hit on the one you meant.

 

[Amberjem]

I have bamboo shrimp it's a filter feeder, and amano and cherry oh and a ghost shrimp or two

 

[vehve]

Wisher, well you were right on the money then. How are things over there?

 

[Wisher1000]

Crazy here as usual. I am facing some big changes at work and the kids are out for Christmas break. I can't even think.......

 

[vehve]

Wisher, hope things go smoothly at work, and you get those pesky kids out of your hair and back in school quickly.