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bluegirl_gw

anyone kept native darters

bluegirl_gw
11 years ago

They are so cute. Read some article where the author was able to adapt them to commercial fish-food.

Rescued some from a drying up puddle & they want to be fed mosquito larvae all the time. Really funny behavior like "perching" on rocks & looking down like hawks. They seem to be able to actually twist their necks downward to look.

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