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Dr. Cray

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Feb 6, 2013
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Hey Everyone,

I'm a new member to MFK, but I have lurked the forum for a while and finally decided to join. Keeping fish is now an obsession of mine haha. I study Ichthyology at my university, and I work in a lab at my University dedicated to South American Knifefish research. I personally don't own any SA knifes, but I maintain some pretty obscure specimens in our lab. Other than that I have a 100 gallon tank with a Jaguar cichlids and two African as well as various Characiforms (Black skirt tetras, Pacu, Headstanders, and Bloody Nose tetra), Siluriformes (Plecos, Corys and a Red Tail Cat), and some various native florida fish in my "florida ecosystem tank" (Warmouth, Sand darters, Gambusia, Killifishes, a pumpkinseed bream).
So if anyone else here is an ichthyologist or fish biologist and they want to shoot the news about that kind of stuff I am always interested in talking about research! I can also provide technical advise on SA knifefishes! I am also a hip-hop enthusiasts which explains my name...

Dr. Cray
 
Dr Cray.,.. welcome to mfk....... there are many MFK members here that would enjoy the talk and the walk.........nice to meet you and glad you are here..i would love to have you see my knife.. he was very unique and hard to ID.. he has since past but i will dig up pics..
 
Hey Doc

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What kind of study do you do with Knife fish? I'm always curious about Knives:)
 
Welcome.
 
We actually study the evolution of the entire clade of over 200 species. That's the main project, just classifying them all as my main professor has found about 13 new species in the last few years. Other than that, a lot of research focusing on there electric discharges, and how they change based on population size and structure. I'm a greenhorn though, and I feel like I just get to build nets and dissect fish haha!

They are very interesting and the fact that they are the only species that communicates this way other than African Knives (which are studied by different labs) makes them of particular importance in Ichthyology and Evolutionary Biology.
 
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