Fish in the News from Robert in New Jersey Hi Tom & Nevin, The first story this week tells the tale that is worse than HR-669 individual states are starting to enact some really bad legislation they are giving the power  to one person to determine what fish or reptiles are illegal. You could wake up one morning and your tank of 50 guppies could cost you in fines $50,000.00 yes a $1,000 a fish. The pet hobby is under siege if the federal government wasn't bad enough now individual states are now making it worse.   Own a Fish or Reptile? You could be a criminal soon http://www.dailykos.com/ ... criminal-soon   H.R. 669 Webcast (2)  http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/ ... Itemid=   Plant City joins in exotic pet amnesty effort http://plantcity2.tbo.com/content ... exotic-pet-effort/   Male Seahorses Like Big Mates http://www.sciencedaily.com/ ... 94708.htm   Means Of Identifying Species Better Than DNA Barcoding Alone http://www.sciencedaily.com/ ... 100349.htm   Desert-lobster dispute turns pair into sagebrush heroes http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... mina04.html   Breeding Breakthrough Helps Sushi Baron Create Sustainable Tuna http://www.bloomberg.com/ ... 2LmeY   Offshore fish planting in the 21st century http://www.michigansthumb.com/ ... 156394.txt   Tropical fish nets new home after appeal http://www.sunderlandecho.com/ ... 5432611.jp   Giant fish display at the Blue Planet Aquarium warns owners how big the grow http://www.ellesmereportpioneer.co.uk/ ... 27111/   The blob, an unknown life form, or Tubifex worms growing in N.C. sewer http://www.examiner.com/ ... growing-in-NCsewer   Mrs and Mrs Wolf Fish have babies http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/ ... 32428.stm   Economy of scales http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 85902.htm   "Aquascapist" Takashi Amano in town http://mybangalore.com/ ... amano-in-town.html   Pet aquarium fish want friends http://www.examiner.com/ ... fish-wants-friends   Two nurse sharks released from aquarium into ocean http://www.ajc.com/ ... sharksplugger0704.html   Common aquarium diseases and how to treat them http://www.examiner.com/ ... how-to-treat-them   King Crabs Go Deep To Avoid Hot Water http://www.sciencedaily.com/ ... 80354.htm   Coralline Algae In The Mediterranean Lost Their Tropical Element Between 5 And 7 Million Years Ago. http://www.sciencedaily.com/ ... 93744.htm   Hey, another week and another profusion of links to very interesting stories about Fish in the News sent to us by Robert in New Jersey. There is nothing else like this list, and we thank Robert in New Jersey ... again!!           Young OB Mbunas Scraping Algae. These are three of the very nice OB Mbunas that have grown up in Tom's 29-gallon aquarium in the last 12 to 15 weeks. Everyone of them is different and very nicely colored and very energetic. When they have not been fed for a few hours, they begin to eat the thick algae that grows on the Cichlid Stones. Click here for more about Cichlid Stones.         Another OB Mbuna Scraping Algae. This picture was taken without the flash on the camera, using just the lights in the aquarium. This may be more like what a potential predator might see when swimming over a pile of rocks in Lake Malawi and looking for an Mbuna to eat. The color and pattern of this Mbuna matches the algae so closely that it would be difficult for a predator to see it. Or perhaps more importantly, it would be more difficult to see this Mbuna than many other Mbunas, which would probably be seen and eaten first.       The Biggest of the Young OB Mbunas This fish looks like a young male and is now about 2.25" long. Most of these young Mbunas will soon have to leave the 29-gallon aquarium that they have grown up in and go to AquariumFish.net's facilities. Tom thinks he may keep a few of them, and he will surely miss the others. When you breed fish, you soon learn that you cannot keep them all.       Another of the OB Mbunas The young OB Mbuna, shown above, like the others has grown up among a pile of 15 Cichlid Stones in a 29-gallon aquarium. This fish shows more blue coloration than the others. This fish, like all of Tom's fish, is Tom's favorite fish.         A young so-called Red Zebra The fish, shown just above, was raised with the OB Mbunas. Actually it came out of the same female's mouth at the same time the OB Mbunas came out. Tom speculated that the female may have seen an egg and picked it up, even tough it was not her egg. Then mouth brooded that egg with her OB babies. We will really never know just what happened. It's a mystery like many things that happen in aquariums, that make aquariums all the more interesting.       Big Blue Bob Rules the 29-gallon Aquarium. Big Bob, shown above, chases the OB Mbunas and tries to get them leave his territory, which is the entire 29-gallon aquarium. When he swoops down on them, they dive between the Cichlid Stones. After he passes, they quickly go back to where they were. Bob does no harm, but he probably would if he could, and he has said many times that he will be glad to see the OB Mbunas go.       Sterbai Cory Catfish These wonderful dwarf armored catfish live in the same aquarium with the Serpae Tetras, shown above. There are lots of different species of Cory catfish in the genus Corydoras. They are all wonderful fish for most freshwater aquariums, because they are small, cute, energetic, and constantly work to eat small bits of uneaten food lost among the pieces of gravel.             What do you see in her mouth? The fish, shown above, is a female so-called Red Zebra. As he looked at the pictures her last week, Nevin declared that he could see baby fish in this female's mouth. These are new pictures of the same female. What do you see in her mouth?       Serpae Tetra Shown above is one of 12 Serpaes in the Angelfish Aquarium. These beautiful fish continue to grow, to increase in coloration, to vigorously quarrel with each other, and to spawn.       Clown Loaches These Clown Loaches arrived a couple of weeks ago. They were just a bit thin, which is not unexpected, because they are wild fish, and wild fish often arrive thin. They'd been well acclimated but need lots of good food, which they've gotten. The Clown Loach on the far left was still a little thin, when this picture was taken, but now a few days later is much plumper, like the one shown below. These fish are very easy to love!!       Callers during this Show Henry in Switzerland calls and talks about his fish and keeping fish in  Switzerland, about water quality, and about lots of interesting fish related comments. The Bailey Brothers encourage YOU to call Pet Fish Talk during the show and talk about your pet fish.     Download of this Entire Show Here's how: Right-Click here, then click on "Save Target (or Link) As ...".  Navigate to the folder you prefer, and click on the button labeled "Save". Later you can copy the MP3-file to your iPod or other MP3-player. You can also burn files to CDs, then play them in a CD-player.  Click here to download the PodCast for this show. 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