Little creek behind my house; stream morphology

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"Dad, we need some better fishes than just dace and sunfish."
Ha ha. How about an indoor river stocked with Tor (mahseer) and ?
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Shane wrote: Amazing how nature finds places thrive. I was down at the creek yesterday and 9 deer, including a three point buck, were standing on the other side of the creek just 30 feet away staring at me.... and I did not have a camera.

-Shane
it is amazing, but deer are pests here, and even in DC, a half mile from Rock Creek Park, they graze in our yard. They are actually were imported by US government a long time ago, and are damaging the forests! But I still like seeing them.
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Very nice pictures. I liked your photos and descriptions of the different parts of streams. I love to get out to streams and rivers and poke around and I am glad to see other people do as well.

If you keep feeding those Dace bloodworms you are going to have some big fish on your hands. They are only supposed to get to 4" but they seemed to get bigger than that when I had them 10 years ago. So big that they made their way from a 29 gallon to my 90 gallon tank so that they would have room to swim.

Please take some pictures of this stream next spring when it is completely full so that we can see it from its current low water level to its high water level. Judging from the stream banks there should be a big difference.
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Great examples of different environments. Thank you. Glad to see another NA native fan. Try finding some darters for her. She'll love them or even a madtom. Where Im from in PA, our darters arent very colorful like the ones down by you. Need help finding some, look up NANFA.
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Love it!
One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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Please take some pictures of this stream next spring when it is completely full so that we can see it from its current low water level to its high water level. Judging from the stream banks there should be a big difference.
That is my plan. I wanted to get some pics now at low water so people could see these environments while they are exposed.
Need help finding some, look up NANFA.
I collected in this area with other NANFA members extensively around 98-99. Take a look at NANFA's page for American Currents and you'll see what a fan I am ;-)

http://www.nanfa.org/ac.shtml

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Thanks so much for showing the types of habitat associated with tropicals. It really helped me visualize environments I have yet to see.
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Shane, you must come up to Reston and see what you can find in our little streams next to my house. I've always been curious. One of my neighbors told me that he occasionally catches crayfish in his minnow traps that he uses as bait to fish in our nearby lakes.

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Arlene
I used to do a lot of collecting out that way. Mostly darters and sculpins as well as cyprinids and sunfish. I would be happy to drag some nets out there some weekend.
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Great thread. Shane, if you ever make it to se Wisconsin let me know. I have places to observe some unique madtom behaviors.( this species is endangered in wi)

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This is a great read! Thanks for sharing.
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