tags: Celebes Rainbowfish, Celebes Sailfish, Telmatherina ladigesi, guest blog essay, brackish water fish
As you might remember, I have been busily writing guest blog articles (and an article for my column in a print magazine published by the Avicultural Society of America), but one of my "guest blog" essays has just been published for all to read at The Reef Tank. Here is a link to the completed essay, an edited version will be republished here in its entirety in one month (now that I see it published, I wanted to change a few things to make it read better, so those changes have been made to the version I have scheduled to publish here later).
Thanks a lot for sharing the information about Rainbowfish. The article was very well-written and interesting! Rainbowfish aren't fish that I've ever considered keeping, but I'll think about it in the future.
And I got to learn about a new blog, The Reef Tank, which is full of great information!
It was a great essay. I did not know that you also kept fish GrrlScientist. I kept fish as a kid and loved it, but for many reasons I no longer do it.
Although my major aquarist and professional interest is killifishes, I have kept and bred several rainbow species, including Celebes rainbows. A good friend served several terms as president of the Rainbow Society. I got species from him, as well as from other sources. I spawned them in mops and picked the eggs. I tried incubating eggs on damp peat moss (don't recall which species) and had good results.
An amusing story. When I was working on my PhD, I had a tank of rainbows which received morning sun. I would get up early and make instant coffee, using a cheap local brand. I would sit and drink several cups of this coffee while watching my rainbows spawn. I had a party and served this coffee. While cleaning up, I found many barely touched cups of coffee. The next morning, I paid attention to my coffee. It was just awful. Needless to say, I switched brands.
heather -- i am happy to help spread the word about fun and interesting sites that you might not otherwise run across.
JPS -- i also miss my huge aquariums of fishes, but alas, i live on the fourth floor of my building and even though it is an old (WWII) construction, i am not sure that the floor is strong enough to hold the thouands of pounds of water, gravel, pumps, filters and whatnot that a properly kept group of large aquariums would require. also, my pocketbook could not support aquariums, either. :(
jim -- i've got a huge crush on the killifishes and have always wanted to keep them -- they must be absolutely fascinating to work with! do you study them professionally? and i can completely relate to your coffee story!
Yes, the majority of my publications have been on killifish. I've been involved in description of @ twenty South American species and a couple of genera. Also some papers on Fundulus, and junior authored a book on Belize fishes. I'm a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the American Killlifish Association. My real first name is Jamie, should you care to do some googling.