<div class='quotemain'>Hi Marge. The meetings bounce around--they're held at members' homes on a rotating basis. In the spring, I think, Mike Brem is holding one out in Gaithersburg.
Hey, it just occurred to me that it might be possible for you to reconcile your burgeoning interest in natives with your apparent new interest in killies:
IMO, the most under rated fish ever is the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus. It's dirt common, found in salt, brackish, and fresh coastal habitats up and down the East coast. Bait shops sell them by the pint. Unlike most killies, they're outgoing shoaling fish. In spawning season, which, indoors, can last six months, males develop yellow fins, with irridescent green flecks. If you can't go out and collect some, you can always pick up some at a bait shop. The nearest I know is Angler's Sport Center, on Route 50 east on the way to the Bay Bridge. (You need to quarantine bait-shop fish, though, because they aren't treated well and often have diseases.)
They'll put up with just about anything, except soft acid water. With a teaspoon or so of marine salt per gallon they'll be happy. Driveway calcium chloride or garden limestone will also do the trick.
http://www.aka.org/fundulus/mum3.htm-(5)/mum3.htm
This reproduction doesn't do justice to John Brill's excellent photo, but gives you an idea of what they look like:
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSum...FTOKEN=49686194[/b]
