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Ron Kruger
Ron gave me the info on spawning dwarf frogs.  We've known this guy since he was a kid in Iowa.  He now lives in New Jersey (wherever the heck that is).

From Ron:  I was introduced to the tropical fish hobby by my Aunt. Although I had goldfish for a number of years prior, it was my Aunt who started me on tropical fish by giving me a two gallon aquarium complete with fish for my twelfth birthday.  It didn’t take me long before I had a number of 10 gallon aquariums.  Over my teen years the hobby grew to 40 aquariums of various sizes in my parent’s basement.
Becoming a member of the Greater Iowa Aquarium Association really sparked my desire to keep fish and to spawn them.  It was at these club meetings that I came to know a good many experienced fish keepers.  I was constantly reading all that I could about various species.  I enjoyed showing my fish in the club shows and monthly meetings to win ribbons for the best fish.  Getting to know the shop owners helped me to draw on their years of experience as well.  
Sorry Ron.  I cut out about 300 words here.
If you care to know how a Iowa boy ended up working in NYC and moving to New Jersey, it was a job transfer that sent me east. I thought it would be a good “adventure” and planned on living in the East Coast to be temporary.  Well, I guess 26 years is stretching the “temporary” a little much!

Jim Sours
Jim gave me the info on Pingi logrollers.  To me, they still look like northern hogsuckers.  It took forever to get a good picture of these twitchy little varmints.

Jim Small
Jim gave me the straight skinny on the movie "Tarantula" which I had confused with "Them."  James Arness was the star in "Them" and "The Thing."

Helen Crowe
Helen straightened me out on black ghost knife fish.
From Helen:  I’ve just been reading what you have to say about black ghost fish. I saw where you say that you’ve never seen them eat flake and I thought you might be interested to know that they do. I have one, (who in less than six months has grown from 10cm to 30cm), who eats anything and everything. I was a bit concerned when I got him, thinking he would only take live food, but I needn’t have worried. Flake, and ’Colorbits’ (a very hard granular food), are wolfed down with equal relish as are a variety of frozen foods, and live bloodworms and brine shrimp. He’s kept in a three foot tank, with six clown loaches, two gouramis and a handful of bristlenoses.

Joey from California, wise beyond her 20 years, has maintained her 55-gallon brackish tank for two years.  She reports:
I was reading the brackish water fish pages that were set up and thought they were great, but I have recently discovered some information that might be interesting to Eric Crouch, the one who wrote them.  He listed a fish as a butterfly goby (called the bullrout in its native Australia), Noteshes robusta.
He was also curious as to why they never got over a couple inches in length.  I think this fish has been misidentified. I have a couple of these fish at home, they were sold to me as Butterfly Gobies, but I believe them to be Vespicula depressifrons, Leaf Goblinfish.  This might explain why they never reach the length you thought they would.  

Simon Luffman from Ontario, Canada identified the so-called "red datnioid" in our miscellaneous oddballs section as Lutjanus argentimaculas otherwise called a redfin or mangrove snapper.  
Since he said, Hey Aqualand.  Great site.  Its really hard to argue with a guy like that.  More from Simon: I work at Big Als Aquarium Services.  Your website has quickly become one of my absolute favorites.  Lots of info and a much more personal touch than most.  Profiles on all my favorite fish, too.  Like I said, its hard to argue with a guy like that.

Chris Argue put the same ID on the "so-called red datniode" back in April.  He added,  I hope this helps, since getting back on the net I have found your web site to be quite informative and almost entertaining ...”  Sorry I misplaced your email, Chris.

David Summa from NY (wherever that is) identified a South American gar we couldnt peg earlier.  
David is 13 years old and says his main job is school.  Based on all the e-mails he
s sent us the last three months, his second career is asking questions.

Travis Underhill hails from Ontario, Canada (which is pretty big place.  Here's a thumbnail bio.  My name is Travis Underhill, I reside in Ontario, Canada. I’m 16, and have had a fascination with animals ever since I could understand what they were. Since then, I’ve grown much in the knowledge of the captive care of many different animals. What interests me the most are the rare and unique species. I’m really into fish, reptile & amphibians, but again, like anything exotic. Should you search pet forums, my username is vipervenom. I currently moderate http://www.chameleonsonline.com and http://devoted.to/petchat. I currently own 3 fish only tanks, a halloween crab, and a Veiled chameleon.  However I am always expanding. I have been keeping brackish and freshwater fish for over 3 years and soon will be moving on to saltwater. I have experience with many of the less seen fishes. I have a personal website mainly about chameleons at
http://vipervenom9.tripod.com. Currently it is being updated just to let you know if you can’t get on.
His info:  Your red stripe gobies, Awaeous Strigatus, are also called Candy Stripe (or Candy Cane) gobies. Apparently from South America, they are burrowers and love sandy substrates. They are territorial against other gobies. Unsure of their eating habits but I assume live food such as blackworms would do. You can probably feed them frozen food. They occupy the lower levels of the tank. Mine I rarely see and so must be nocturnal. They need brackish water, my salinity is around 1.006 with no problems. A very shy and skittish fish at first. Havent had it long and there isnt much information on the net at all.

Kyle Szeto info:  My name is Kyle Szeto. Im 13 and I currently reside in Pleasanton, California. I moved here from Fremont about two and a half years ago -- and, no offense to people from Fremont -- I like it a lot more here. Theres a whole lot more wildlife, but enough about that. I suppose school takes up most of my life, but I try and squeeze in as much as I can about animals. I currently own: an ornate horned frog, a tiger salamander, an American toad, a leopard gecko, a kingsnake and five bettas, to name a few. Like I said, I like animals. I suppose I like fish, reptiles and amphibians more though. Ive got quite a fetish with frogs...yeah...thats all I can think of to say right now.

Jared Randle info:  My name is Jared Randles, I’m 20 years old. I grew up just a few blocks from Aqualand and used to love visiting to look at the fish after school. I now live in Ankeny, but I’m still a loyal Aqualand customer. I recently purchased a 29-Gallon set in which I currently have 5 serpae tetras, 6 danios (my original cyclers), 2 weather loaches, 2 Algae-Eating sharks, 1 red-tailed shark, and an African Dwarf Frog that likes to climb to the top of my drift wood and run away as soon as I grab my camera. I am a newly independent member of the hobby, my parents always raised us with fish tanks around and I finally got back into it on my own. I love studying fish and other aquatic life. I’m trying to establish an all natural aquarium containing as few “traditional” fish as possible. I like the challenge of unusual fish.

Rachel Rushing info:  My name is Rachel Rushing and my boyfriend is Kevin Carboni.  He’s actually the one that wanted me to write to you about the differences in our “butterfly gobies” behavior and what you had on your fact sheet.  I am 20, Kevin is 24.  This is our first brackish aquarium and it is doing great.  I lived in California most of my life (up till 2 years ago).  Kevin was born in Turkey and has moved from state to state.  Now we reside in Northern Florida.  I’ve had several fish tanks since I was quite young and so has Kevin.  But the tanks we had always had 5-10 different types of fish in them.  We wanted to find a really wicked looking fish that we would enjoy having lots of.  When we saw the “Butterfly Goby” at the local fish store we knew that is what we wanted in our species tank.  Right now it’s just a 10-gallon with 6 of these cool looking guys.  If all goes well we want to get a 100 gallon and have about 50 of them.  We are hoping to get these guys to spawn for us.  It’s a little early yet, but we’ll definitely let you know if we are successful!!!

James, Krause, University of CA @ Davis, April 10, 2005
Hi, I stumbled onto your website a while back, but something bothered me when I was reading your article about lungfish, particularly this passage:
Missing Link.  Weve seen info saying the lungfish could be the fish that first adapted to walking on land.  Get your salt shaker again.  Those flimsy little legs couldnt hold up a corydoras catfish.  Lotsa catfishes move better on land than these guys.  Remember the walking catfishes that threatened to devour Miami?  Lungfish a Coelacanth relative?  Forgettaboutit.  And as far as that goes, those coelacanths live awfully deep to have stumbled onto land.”
While I am not a doctor yet, just merely an undergrad, I have taken several classes that have discussed the relationships between these three groups. First, coelacanths did not originate in the deep ocean; they actually originated in shallow freshwater streams, and then slowly as time progressed moved out into the ocean. Second, lungfish, while closely related to the coelacanth, are actually the sister group of tetrapods. This has been proven not only with DNA, but also physical characteristics such as their limbs being supported by internal skeletal elements (pelvic and/or pectoral girdles).
I hope this cleared up any misconceptions about these wonderful fish. If you would like more information on this subject I could send you the title of a good book that lays out these relationships. Keep up the great work with the site.

James A. Krause (Current positions held at the University of CA, Davis):

Assistant IV in Wildlife, Fish, Con. Bio. Dr. P. Moyle Lab.
Assistant II in Evolution and Ecology. Dr. P.C. Wainwright Lab.
Assistant II in Evolution and Ecology. BIS 1B labs Dr. S. Keen.

Major: Biological Sciences; AOE: Marine Biology
Minor: Oceanography

Adam Southard, Hillsboro, OR, June 30, 2005
I hit your page on the web. In case you’re interested, your Giant African Millipedes are from the Congo Basin.  It’s warm.  Lots of fruit falls to the ground (mangos, star fruit, monkey fruit, breadfruit, papaya), it’s humid and rains constantly and the things are extremely common.
They’re harmless, so no one hurts them. But they smell bad so no one really picks them up either.
Adam is Sales Manager of World Images, Inc.

James T. Dowling-Healey is an avid birdwatcher and zoologist from
Connecticut. James visits the "Aqualand Pets Plus" website frequently and considers it an honor to be a member of their "Board of Correctors."

Joe Carrieri, Long Island, NY, February 3, 2006 is 15 and hopes to be an exotic pet veterinarian and Toucan Breeder one day.  He currently owns several pets: an African Congo Grey, Senegal Parrot, Goffin Cockatoo, Bearded Dragon, and his brother’s short tailed hamster.  Animals are his Life and he hopes to do something with them.

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