On Sun, 07 May 2006 02:59:07 GMT, Altum wrote:
A couple of days ago I was in LFS and asked the fish aisle manager what
they had that was good for outdoors. He took me over to a tank with
some "red shiners" (Notropis lutrensis). I remembered Flash talking
about shiners and I wonder if these are the same ones? I bought four.

http://www.scotcat.com/images/n_lutrensis2.jpg

The ones I saw were more whitey, but that's probably just the stress
of being in a shop. They didn't grab me as interesting, and I didn't
really get the fact that they said I needed a clam as well!

(I only buy dry goods from that store anyway, I don't trust their
quarantine procedures - but they do get an interesting range).

As I was buying the fish, the manager scooped out a female, looked at
her from above, and realized her spine was crooked (probably from a net
injury). He offered her to me for free. Otherwise he was going to feed
her to one of the sal****er fish because that store won't knowingly sell
damaged fish. As I said that I'd be happy to give her a home, I thought
about the recent thread on rescuing fish. Guess I'm a soft touch too.

Excellent! I have a powder blue cichlid in similar circumstances - the
stripes on one side are odd, like there's a join - they stop and then
restart at another angle, but fine on the other side of the body.
It's quite able to swim and defend itself though. Lovely fish.

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