Difficult Datnoid: Exporting Dats in your Grand Am

[ewurm]

The Datnoid I got in Indiana was a lot of work. It's a Micro, and they had it in a brackish tank. We had to drip it back to fresh. Then I had to keep Rallys cat from sticking his paws in my cooler. I had to set up life support in the car, consisting of a double line air pump, and a heater plugged into a power inverter. It was a 9 hour trip and I was nervous. Then when I made it back, had to drip again from one of my tanks. I finally moved him into his own tank last night, it's doing well and eating krill. Pics forthcoming tonight, if my f-ing computer works.

 

[rallysman]

SWEET!!
I'm glad he made it It's awesome that he's eating krill too.

 

[davo]

good job wurm... 9 hours aint too bad.. think of wildcaught fish

 

[rallysman]

That fish had some stress from the salt I think. Its bars almost looked gone, but it started to color up nicely during the drip.

 

[landmineyouth]

I want a dat so bad .. can't find them anywhere in FL.. only the ugly kind, I want the widebar!

 

[Euge]

ncie ewurm can't wait for the pics now

 

[Jesse]

Congrats on the new dat! That earns you some extra points and likely makes up for the fact that you own a Pontiac Grand Am, a FWD rental fleet car w/ excessive plastic body cladding.

 

[Deathcurl]

Congrats! Even without the brackish issue, dats will fluctuate color-wise. I've had a few of mine for years and sometimes I wake up looking at totally different looking fish.

 

[softturtle]

Nice work. I almost can't make it when I'm driving to MN.

 

[redtailfool]

I guess i missed the thread about it.. but what happened and how did a microlepis end up in brackish water ?